u/Jacktheforkie

Trying to clear the buildup behind it, it’s been in for several years

Couldn’t find it in the Tesco

I witnessed the explosion while parking, my regular light duty cables had no issues to jump the vehicle safely, my light duty cables were easily 3x as thick as the cables on this one

There’s a variety of things on these that are annoying or dangerous,
Annoying :
The restraint bar isn’t easy to close, lift too high and it falls back down, the crown ones it’s either up or down

The horn button, it’s not easy to hit while reversing and is too close to the hydraulics buttons, crown has the horn button where my finger rests, easy to use as needed

Driver cabin is too small, when I’m standing sideways to reverse my hip hits the red button, it slows me down, crown has a couple inches more

Steering wheel, on crown it’s fixed in place so it’s easy to find without looking, on the Toyota it flips up, pushing down stops the truck and it takes 10 seconds before it’ll move

Forks, the Toyota forks are larger so more difficult to get into two pallets, regularly gets stuck in low profile pallets and the width leaves no room to move in misaligned pallets

Battery, on our crowns the battery compartment has an open top when the hood is up, this makes for easy changing, the plug can sit nicely on top, on the Toyota it has a bar across which means I gotta get off the changing machine to thread the plug in

Dangerous:
Nowhere to put my arm and hand, the crown truck has a thicker back rest which my arm sits on top and the handles are recessed, easy to grab and I always go for it without thinking about it, on the Toyota my hand ends up on the top of the rear panel risking my fingers if I hit something (that happens frequently as I’m moving in tight areas)

Handles, the Toyota handle sticks out a decent way from the back rest, it’s at arse height, leads to arse pain and lower back pain

Low backrest, on the crown the backrest supports me higher up so in sudden stops I’m not bent over it as bad, Toyota puts pressure on places it shouldn’t

Handles again, most of the Toyota handles were removed because they were too uncomfortable, leads to hands being in the danger zone, also the operator position means that my body is very exposed to impact, on the crown if I reverse up to something the truck will contact the wall first before I do, on the Toyota it’s my face hitting first

If I’d park on it my car would sink

I drive on it daily