by Pete'90 on Tue, 18 Mar 2014 7:07 +0000
I have the same issue with my 2010 my11 started after 5000klms of owning her, mentioned it to my dealer and they told me they know of the issue and it's exactly the same in the prado. Explanation I got, was that when they started to do minor upgrades along with this generations life they changed the tail shaft.
They were quite helpful and took care of it for me, after each service it would start to reappear after 2000 or so klms. they would grease it or pull it out and service it (which they did) with no hassles.
Unfortunately it's just something that we have to deal with. But don't be too worried it's just a little bit of a pain sometimes