Middag all you fellow awesome Hilux'ers. Found this site from another forum (Hilux Pickup Oners Club - HPOC) in the UK, where I live. After driving an uninspiring car for many years, I finally pulled the pin and bought a South African built 2.5 HL2 doublecab last year this time. What a fantastic bakkie is all I can say. I have not looked back! It's like taking the red pill in the Matrix!
I have not done overly much to it mods wise, but I have had it professionally rust treated underneath (the UK has salt spread on the roads in winter to stop ice forming), I put in a plastic under rail load liner and installed a discreet dash cam. I'm going to be putting on some Cooper Discoverer S/T Maxx tyres on later this month and I'm probably going to take out the plastic load liner and line the bak with Protecta Kote rubberized paint as the humidity here causes rust quick.
Thanks for letting me be part of this awesome community and I hope to contribute and find out some of the South African Hilux scene.
Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
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Froll
- Monster Truck
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- Town: Vioolsdrift
- Vehicle: 2010 4.0 V6 Fortuner 4x4
- Real Name: Roger
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Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Welcome Ruari, hope you enjoy it here on the forum. Post some pics of your truck.
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Dadz Toy
- Low Range 4WD
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- Town: Cape Town
- Vehicle: 95 Series Prado - Diesel Dog
- Real Name: Richard
- Club VHF Licence: HC 286
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Welkom man!
Please post a photo of your ride!
Enjoy it here!
Rich
Please post a photo of your ride!
Enjoy it here!
Rich
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Rich
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Parabat
- High Range 2WD
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:04 pm
- Town: Colchester
- Vehicle: Hilux 2.5 HL2
- Real Name: Ruari
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Thanks guys,
Here is the Ratel, complete with 2 Land Rover 'kill markings' on the front door.
Here is the Ratel, complete with 2 Land Rover 'kill markings' on the front door.
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Dowe Koos
- LR4WD, Lockers, Crawler Gears
- Posts: 1053
- Joined: Fri Oct 10, 2014 6:44 pm
- Town: Pretoria
- Vehicle: Toyota Buschwagen 2.7 4x4
- Real Name: Hennie
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Hi there Ruari, welcome to the forum. What caliber gun did you use to kill those Landi. 
Ecc 1:9 Wat gewees het, dit sal daar weer wees; en wat gebeur het, dit sal weer gebeur, en daar is glad niks nuuts onder die son nie.
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Parabat
- High Range 2WD
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:04 pm
- Town: Colchester
- Vehicle: Hilux 2.5 HL2
- Real Name: Ruari
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Thanks Koos, you know Landy's, you don't have to shoot them, just look at them with a Hilux and they drop their oil pan!Dowe Koos wrote:Hi there Ruari, welcome to the forum. What caliber gun did you use to kill those Landi.
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Changes
- Low Range 4WD
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- Town: Klerksdorp
- Vehicle: Fortuner
- Real Name: William
- Club VHF Licence: HC 285
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Howzit Ruari,
please keep sending pics on your outings in the UK... otherwise welkom en enjoy..
please keep sending pics on your outings in the UK... otherwise welkom en enjoy..
Do not BRAND bash...!!!
Landi is not a brand..
Landi is not a brand..
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Parabat
- High Range 2WD
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- Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:04 pm
- Town: Colchester
- Vehicle: Hilux 2.5 HL2
- Real Name: Ruari
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Thanks William, I will post pics, going to get some new tyres in a week, Cooper Discoverer S/T Maxx, so I'll find the right place and put up some pics.Changes wrote:Howzit Ruari,
please keep sending pics on your outings in the UK... otherwise welkom en enjoy..
I like your signature by the way.
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Dowe Koos
- LR4WD, Lockers, Crawler Gears
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- Town: Pretoria
- Vehicle: Toyota Buschwagen 2.7 4x4
- Real Name: Hennie
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Yeah Ruari, where did you get that Landi kill markings. I need more than 250 of them for my killings of Landi over the years.
Ecc 1:9 Wat gewees het, dit sal daar weer wees; en wat gebeur het, dit sal weer gebeur, en daar is glad niks nuuts onder die son nie.
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Parabat
- High Range 2WD
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:04 pm
- Town: Colchester
- Vehicle: Hilux 2.5 HL2
- Real Name: Ruari
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Hei Koos, I had a friend make them up, he's got a vinyl sticker cutter. I gave him the picture which I made and he made the sticker.Dowe Koos wrote:Yeah Ruari, where did you get that Landi kill markings. I need more than 250 of them for my killings of Landi over the years.
PM me if you want the picture template.
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Mud Dog
- Moderator
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- Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:18 am
- Town: East London
- Vehicle: '90 SFA Hilux DC 4X4, Full OME, 110mm lift. Brospeed branch, 50mm ss freeflow exhaust. 30 x 9.5 Discoverer S/T's on Viper mags. L/R tank. (AWOL) '98 LTD 2.4 SFA, dual battery system. Dobinson suspension, LR tanks, 31" BF mud's.
- Real Name: Andy
- Club VHF Licence: HC103
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Welcome aboard, Ruari!!
When your road comes to an end ...... you need a HILUX!.
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers ... what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
Don't take life too seriously ..... no-one gets out alive.
It's not about waiting for storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
And be yourself ..... everyone else is taken!
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers ... what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.
Don't take life too seriously ..... no-one gets out alive.
It's not about waiting for storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
And be yourself ..... everyone else is taken!
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nswart
- High Range 4WD
- Posts: 51
- Joined: Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:09 pm
- Town: London
- Vehicle: Hilux Vigo
- Real Name: Naas
- Location: United Kingdom
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
My maggies, we are living on the same island! Sidcup, Kent is where I live now. We might go and kick some rubber in July when the new shape reaches our shores.
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BushMad
- Low Range 4WD
- Posts: 189
- Joined: Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:54 am
- Town: Johannesburg
- Vehicle: '01 Hilux 2700i D/C 4x4
- Real Name: Darren
- Club VHF Licence: HC130
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Hello and wecome, epic stickers!
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TertiusK
- Low Range 4WD
- Posts: 232
- Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:23 pm
- Town: Oudtshoorn
- Vehicle: 1990 Hilux 2.4D 4x4 DC Full MIKEM Suspension front and back + 2007 Kia Sportage 2.0 CRDI 4WD
- Real Name: Tertius
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
I would love to have those stickers just to tick off my friend who drives a Range Rover. I also seen some stickers which you place next to your tow bar that reads. Attach Land Rover here. Hehehehehe.
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Parabat
- High Range 2WD
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:04 pm
- Town: Colchester
- Vehicle: Hilux 2.5 HL2
- Real Name: Ruari
Re: Greetings fellow awesome Hilux'ers
Thanks guys, there are a lot of good tongue in cheek stickers on eBay, I'm not sure how easy they are to get in SA though.