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    Prado dashboard cracking?

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    There was no dash cracking problems with my 2003 Toyota Prado until I had the windscreen replaced in September 2014. Three days after I picked it up I noticed the section of the dashboard that shields the instruments had cracked from one side to the other, right across the front edge. I have since read that this is becoming common in Prado, but Toyota won't recognise it as a manufacturing fault due to the timeframe. Mine now has
    200,000 km up, it’s always been garaged, never driven off road, had never been in an accident, and it has been serviced every 5000 km by Toyota. I’ve had it since new and love it, but I’m now just a little disappointed.

    Answered by CarsGuide
    25 September 2014
    Graham Smith

    Cracking of the dash is a relatively common one in the Prado, and Toyota has in the past come to the party with at least some of the cost of repairs. It seems now that they are refusing to deal on the basis that cars like yours are too old to care about. Yours is 11 years old, and has done 200,000 km, so you can’t expect Toyota to pay all the cost of repairs, but I would press them for part compensation.

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