Toyota Land Cruiser: Years to Avoid and Best Years to Buy

Year-by-year data table

Running cost is fuel or energy plus the maintenance band midpoint for that car at its age today, re-priced to your country. Purchase price, insurance and depreciation are not included.

Photographs and every generation of the Land Cruiser, through the years →

Land Cruiser sub-models & family

Variants & trims on record

Body, powertrain and trim variants of the Land Cruiser on the federal record. Variants folded into this nameplate are counted in this page's data; the rest have too thin a record for a page of their own yet.

What goes wrong on the Toyota Land Cruiser

Across every Land Cruiser model year in our index, owners report these component groups most often. The cost beside each one is the representative repair for that group at a US independent shop, re-priced to your country.

• Service Brakes10 complaints across all Land Cruiser years · typical job: Pads, rotors and caliper service, both axles$580–$1,140
• Unknown Or Other7 complaints across all Land Cruiser years · typical job: Diagnosis and mixed repair$360–$940
• Power Train5 complaints across all Land Cruiser years · typical job: Transmission service or clutch-pack repair$1,290–$4,040
• Visibility/Wiper3 complaints across all Land Cruiser years · typical job: Wiper motor, linkage or windscreen replacement$490–$1,200
• Structure3 complaints across all Land Cruiser years · typical job: Body, subframe or corrosion repair$1,070–$2,920
• Fuel/Propulsion System1 complaints across all Land Cruiser years · typical job: Fuel pump or injector replacement$680–$1,620

Flat-rate labour hours x local shop rate plus a parts band. An estimate of what this class of failure costs, not a quote. Formula.

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