raili wrote:your car is higher on the right side because its designed as a right hand drive vehicle and when the driver sits in it should be somewhat straight.
Imagine the "poor LHD drivers"': mine also was lower on the left side by approx. 10 mm and I was not even sitting in there. A spacer on the left shock helped me out.
Btw: measuring should always be done from the center of the wheel to the wheelarch to eliminate mistakes from e.g. different tire pressures....
I have done a fair bit of research on this now and I think what your saying is from other models which do in fact have different leaf packs and are handed, but I think this has been generalised and I don't believe it to be true for the new Hilux. I however am open minded to finding such information that supports this within Toyota specs.
I have found many example of lean the other way in vehicles that are also RHD, and while not perfect as you mentioned you can clearly see the blue car above is one of those examples where it sits level. (That vehicle arrived in the UK at the same time also so its not of a different age) There is a strong argument that if the vehicle is being driven on the left hand side of the road and the road cambers away, then you would actually want it to lean the other way to counter the road surface, this would actually be doubling the issue not helping it.
The fuel tank has a range from usable 5ltrs to 80ltrs, the density of diesel is 0.84kg/ltr, so that range is 4.2kg to 67.2kg, so that tank alone would balance out a driver which would typically be around 75kg.. I'm actually very tall and bulky at 130kg, I do not even come close to levelling the vehicle when I'm sitting in it, so that is a factor of 2x. SO if anything again there would be more support on left hand side and not how it is.
It is highly unlikely they would build an offset into the chassis itself, that would cause problems with different models and weights, this is just my opinion.
My gut feeling is that I have a leaf pack that doesn't match the other side, and is pushing up on the back of the car.. now as mentioned above I've checked the part numbers on the rear leaf packs and they are not handed and do not have any identification to say they are, so I could easily proof this by swapping the leaf pack from side to side, if the problem follows this and leans the other way we know the issue, if it doesn't then it rules it out.
I will report back, and I'm also open minded to be proven completely wrong which is totally fine with me, I just want the truth and facts, if all Hilux's did this then fine, but they don't, so for me its abnormal behaviour and its not right as it feels unsafe due to the fact the rear right wheel has allot less weight on it.