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One notebook, every fill-up since 27 km

A late-1990s Toyota Land Cruiser Prado GXL on Fraser Island, Queensland. Not the one in the story.
A late-1990s Toyota Land Cruiser Prado GXL on Fraser Island, Queensland. Not the one in the story. Photo: OSX, Public domain. The real one is in the original post.

The logbook starts at 27 km on the odometer. It's one notebook, about half full, with nearly every fill-up since written down, what it cost and where, plus every service and every flat tire. The Prado was bought new in Australia in 1999 and has been around the country several times, some of it towing on corrugated outback roads, which will shake loose anything that isn't built right. It had 316,000 km on it at the time of the post. When another member of the family took it over, the notebook came with the keys. That's the kind of record a mechanic wishes every customer kept.

The logbook even has an entry for a $4 taillight bulb.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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