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I think we are beating a dead horse here.. Its a '97. Im sure the asking price is so low, that rust and cheap repairs would be a moot point Its a thousand dollar car, lets not assume you are going to polish this turd for more.

What's your stance on Auto-Start-Stop? Would Auto-Start-Stop promote washdown?

Ah the good old widowmaker MR2 GT. So many of these have spun off the road with a bit of extra boost

HA - I felt for you trying to put that door trim back on - been there - done that more than once in the past. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA

Hello AMD, do you remember the Toyota mini vans circa 1987? Those were horrible to access as well. Would you say that was the worst engine placement ever? Directly under the driver's seat and so hard to do anything!!!

You just forgot to vacum the rubbish under the back seat..lol

What is the best way to to do my coolant flush in this truck I own a 2011 limited ?

No rear seat fold down? Even the BMW 5 series has this. Lexus better remedy this faux pas on the new design!

Would it be easier to pull the motor? Thanks.

This Camry is very lucky🍀

I've yet to see a car where frameless door window design is worth the compromises it causes.

What a POS design. "On to the next disaster"- Priceless. Great video. Thanks.

Well done toyota beautuful looking

I just bought a Rav4, now I want a venza.😳

Lol i like it when toyota fan boys talk shit about bmw my questions is why come toyota to bmw the First place should i tell you why toyoyta fan boys because toyota knows how great the engine is lol get the f out off hire Toyota supra fan boys like little kid 😂😂😂

Why can't you drive with the door open. That's some BS

I wonder if the hybrid system saved $6k in fuel up to this point. At $3.70 per gallon (US avg.), it comes to 1622 gallons. Normal gas Corolla gets 31 mpg and the hybrid one 53 mpg in the city. So the hybrid saves 22 mpg. That means you have to get a minimum 35680 miles out of the battery to not lose money, not including the higher asking price of the hybrid version. The battery should last 150k miles under normal conditions. That sounds like a good deal.

the waterpump phillips head bolt is just a regular countersunk bolt. i replaced mine because it stripped and used one with an allen head. also the engine isn't backwards, it sits the same as it would in the gt4. the turbo is at the front.

47:00 I think you should have also verified that the mechanical backup key does work. It's only matter of time when (not if) you have to use it to get the door open and it would suck to learn at that time that the backup method doesn't work because of installation error.

Hello Mr car care nut. I also have a white LS430 from 2002 with about 177000 miles( 287000km). I have had it meticulously serviced. I have noticed a rotton egg gas smell only when I flaw the throttle. I don't notice it under normal driving. Have you heard about this before, and if so, do you have any suggestions as to the cause? What do you think of Marvelss mystery oil? Thanks. Julian

😂 I work at a shop that deals with nothing but BMWs. Since we know how to fix most of these things now and what to look for, I would definitely recommend Toyota for anyone looking to buy a car. Even tho I do own and drive bmw.

43:15 My current thinking is that German car manufacturers do have the handling but they definitely make everything over-engineered. I'm just wondering why other manufacturers do not simply copy the suspension from some well known car such as BMW M3 or VW Golf GTI and then do the other stuff as they have always done. If I could have a small Toyota with BMW M3 suspension, that would be the best of both worlds.

I think the owners made the perfect decision. 🤙🏾

Stained headliner too

I've been looking for a manual es300, seeing how hard it is to get parts I think I'll skip and just wait to find an aristo, If I'm going to struggle for parts I'm going to STRUGGLE. I'm looking for the 1st gen aristo with the 1uz, awd, and air suspension, exactly what I want, impossible to find parts for in the same way.

Last month (April, 2024), I purchased a 2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid xle with 48,000 miles. Very good condition, I took it to a local auto repair shop that I trust. They gave it an excellent report, only problem is a very slight leaky valve cover. So far it is the best car I have ever owned. One of the reasons I bought a hybrid is this YT channel and AMD comments about hybrids. Hopefully, it will be the last car I buy (I am 75). My first Toyota was a 1974 Celica, sold it with 210,000 miles. My wife has a 2021 Toyota Avalon Limited hybrid, which she loves. She was sad when we sold her 2000 Avalon, that car never had any mechanical problems. She drove it 150,000 miles. She got a new Avalon because Toyota announced they were going to stop making them.

Should have them use you as a witness to sue the previous shop that did the parts cannon.

German engineering: if it's not over-engineered, it requires more design work.

33:00 I think the reason this is so complex is that the exterior designer was not given any rules about what kind of hardware there needs to be inside the door. Once the exterior was designed, some poor door handle and latch designer was told that there's the door with exterior (and inside paneling) already decided. Make it a door handle mechanism that's fast to install in the factory. And to make things more complex, they were probably told that if there's any way to use some existing part (e.g. the latch mechanism without any electronics or plastic parts) they must re-use the same part even if it makes the overall design way more complex as a result.

Every Mk4 for Golf, Bora (Jetta), Passat starting 1998 has a microswitch in a door latch module. So this is not BMW specific, I felt this BMW bashing was unnecessary.

Tip for 2gr fe conpressor, squat the subframe and take the front motor mount bolts out with jackstand support and wiggle the compressor through the gap. Hour and a half and you’re done

Just make it a toggle switch. Why is it always on when you get in. I don't care anymore i went electric :)

Wow! That door design really sucks. I can only imagine how much work it would be to replace the door window after a thief cracks it. And even VW design is not insane enough to require removing the rail for the window to replace the locking latch.

Use thicker bolts

@SarahnTuned

This whole design seems like a copy of VW door latch setup. For some reason, VW desided in late 1990s that the doors should not have visible switch so they embedded a small microswitch inside the door latch mechanism. The microswitch is really poor quality and probably every VW car manufactured during two last decades have had at least one microswitch failure. The switch itself costs maybe $1.50 but you're supposed to replace the whole latch every time the switch fails which costs maybe $70 and requires hours of work with the panels and stuff. If only they had used more robust $3 microswitch and this design would have been accetable. But manufacturer wanted to save $1.50 per door and caused multiple hundreds worth of extra expenses in billable hours when the cheap microswitch fails. And some cars require that the window is some specific predefined height (not fully open or fully closed) for the door panels to be extracted without trouble. Lots of fun if you're taking the panels off to repair the window movement mechanism! And obviously all the connectors are designed *only* for the initial factory build. It makes zero difference to designers how hard the car is to repair in the future because that's additional billable work from the customer that already purchased the car. I would much prefer functional design where the mechanism can be seen if it improves reliability or repairability. Modern cars are more like Apple devices where the customer is supposed to pretend that there are no screws anywhere so either you hide all the screws in imaginative ways or glue everything in place. Glueing is getting more and more commont these days, unfortunately. See smartphones and laptops for worst examples.

my 09 Honda accord had pistons and rings for the same reason early on and it still runs absolutely amazing. It now has 310K miles and all I've had to do is regular maintenance and a power steering rack.

The worst Toyotas are probably better than 90% of the cars from the big 3

you are right it really cost owner almost half engine openening I am amazed and sad for owner only 75k miles and people buy lexus for saving on repairs I must say don't follow brands name

I thought you forgot to put the foam piece back on.🤦‍♂️🙆‍♂️😂

I dont know if youve ever been told this, but you must have 99% iranian genetics to you

So the 8AR-FTS is a good engine. That's the information I wanted because I'm interested in buying an IS200t or an IS300 with this engine. Just have to make sure it has the D4S tech.

Brother keep this up and you might have to make your own version of how cars work and I'd pay to see that from you.

Nightmare job

If more medical doctors were meticulous and honest like this mechanic the expectancy of life will be surely benefit.

Does this operation apply toyota 4runner 2011

May not be the best transmission or the fastest V8 but the transmission and engine will sure last 400,000+ miles as long as the transmission and engine is serviced on time. Dual clutch transmissions are not as reliable might be a big reason Lexus didn’t go with a faster transmission because of reliability.

The problem is Toyotas become to expensive.

Audi RS3 or Lexus RC-F? I am looking at these 2 cars. Love the V8 and reliability of Lexus, but the RS3 is AWD, is faster, and has better tech. Both great cars.

7GR-FKS?