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Sea Point. ❤️ Is where the home is......

While the G400d's camera could be set up per journey as a trip recording dash cam, I was told that the G450d would have that start automatically if so chosen via MBUX setup. If this is true, it would be nice to add a SSD+enclosure for recording entire longer journeys. And let's hope it to be...

G450d Professional with 18" wheels - that's what dreams are made of. 270kW, 750Nm. It should be able to reach Garaghab, yes? The engine is a few cm³ larger than the 2925 cm³ of the G400d OM656. Not sure whether this is just an uprated OM656 or what? It still has three diff-locks, and low...

Just found it on YouTube, was watching when I read the post. Amazing nostalgia indeed.

Afaik, the built-in dash cam can record every metre you drive yet has to be manually activated every time the vehicle is started up. This becomes automated via a setting in MBUX from the 2025 G450d onward. I just wondered whether there could be a software update for up to 2024 G400d that...

These cars typically have diff breathers that go up all the way up the firewall until just below the bonnet. I recall someone called Mungo from Noordhoek educating me on this about 15 years ago. And then his great wisdom: "when you want to cross rivers, get a ¢¥π§∆®®€¢£ boat!"

Which really is a Yamaha V8.

Check with Michael van Rooyen at Halfway Toyota Dieprivier.

Very few people know much about this engine, as it is only in its 8th year now and not as populous as a Polo or a Corolla. The typical owner also is prone to maintain privacy and won't easily share experiences. Solicited this wisdom online courtesy DeepSeek: The **Mercedes-Benz OM656**...

Just a few yards behind of Mouille Point Lighthouse, and just west of the DHL Cape Town Stadium (called the Bedpan by locals), there is the lovely Green Point Urban Park, where adults can have their tea, families can picnic, and dogs can be dogs in their special enclosure. Lush indigenous...

Had a similar issue in a Disco II in 2002-ish, and it councided with a stuck driver's door window. Stopping, switching the car off, then restarting it after 3 minutes, cured it. In IT terms, the Disco II required a reboot. Same brand sound system (which, in that car, didn't exactly lived up to...

To this day, Toyota ships the Bandeirante or Bandy, for short, with the legendary Mercedes-Benz OM314 engine. The same engine that once powered the über Unimog! A 3.8l 4cyl Diesel pumping out very few kW but torque far north of 1200Nm, some sources say 1500! That's as much as a 15.5l V8...

My Mercedes-Benz started rusting after relocation to Gauteng, as did my Opel and Volkswagen. Don't think acid rain is safer than ocean spray.

Congrats!

I know of 3 that ran main bearings due to being 'nursed.'. The risk is real.

Thank you! I was considering that pristine white G350d I posted elsewhere, for one of my director level staff. He declined and meanwhile asked for a 2025 VW Amarok PanAmericana V6. This new car saves the company almost R400k. But that white G350d is like an earworm I can't get rid of. Too...

On offer by private seller, but the staff wants a DC V6 Amarok instead, so let me not be stingy. Look at this beautiful white Geländewagen in Centurion.

Thank you yet again for introducing me to supercapacitors. Over time, I might install at the home office, and when I can finally collect my G, one in the rear to power a small freezer. The absence of acute fire risk justifies the price premium.

Trained mechanics and auto-electricians taught me decades ago that lead acid batteries could get their plates bent if discharged too much. Upon their advice, I always installed 400A batteries in my OM616 and OM617's. I trickle charged them as well, when not driven daily, and I never lost a...