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  1. Contemplating on getting a Rav4 Hybrid. I just realize I know nothing about hybrids. So THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video, very informative!
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  2. Congrats on 1 million subscribers!
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  3. Whoever is doing the filming in these videos, needs a raise. I love how all the angles are shown and the smoothness between one take and another!❤️
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  4. I wish I was local to you. You are informative and honest. I can tell that you are humble and take pride in your work. I wish there were more master technicians that share that same work ethic and honesty as you have. Keep up the good work and I enjoy your videos.
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  5. I cleaned the MAF and Throttle Body after dealing with a rough idle at deceleration for several years on my ‘12 Highlander with 235,000 miles. The performance and behavior dramatically changed in a positive way. This was a very easy DIY anyone can do with basic tools and patience. Make sure you use the proper solvents designed to clean those parts!
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  6. My 2005 4Runner got totalled in an accident two years ago 😢. Me and my family still miss her and haven't gotten over it. A distracted driver missed a red light and t boned us. It was a tank that saved our life.Thank you brother for your review!
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  7. Thanks for the advice. I never thought 10,000 miles between oil changes could be good for your engine and was told I'm wasting my money doing it at 5,000 miles. You just proved to me I'm doing the right thing. Thanks again.
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  8. Big fan of you!! As a ex-Toyota tech (electrician) for 13 years! Always a Toyota owner (Yaris 2003 with 400+klm). Now i working for Volvo high voltage tech!!!
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  9. You are TOP NOTCH AMD! As a service advisor for an independent Toyota/Lexus repair shop,I can't stress how important it is to emphasize the quality of parts is just as important as the caliber of technicians working on your car!! I always tell my customers this.You pay for what you get and it's a reason why we are usually at least 2 weeks out for appointments. Once people understand the true VALUE of a GREAT &HONEST shop,they'll plan ahead and wait to get their car worked on at that shop.Peace and blessings 💪👍🙏
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  10. You are a good man! I wish everyone was honest like you are
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  11. I’ve got a 2012 Highlander limited with just over 200,000 miles. Besides regular oil changes every 5k miles, brakes, and tires, coolant, transmission fluid, differential fluid plugs. I’ve had to change the front driver’s door lock actuator, the driver’s door window had fallen into the door. Loctite on the bolts fixed that. Changed the intermediate steering shaft, rear passenger side wheel hub bearing. All DIY. Feels great to fix a vehicle that isn’t complicated to work on and satisfying to save all that money.
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  12. The timing is funny, I'm also a professional Master Mechanic, have been in the trade over 40 years. I just bought a Tundra last week, my son drove it and also bought one a few days later. Love the truck and also plan on doing the first oil change at 500 miles on both just for a peak early on. Mine is an XP package premium SR5 4x4. His is a Limited TRD Offroad Hybrid. Congratulations on a sweet truck!
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  13. Your walk around presentation is outstanding! I just hit my first 1,000 miles with my 2023 Tacoma TRD Pro in Solar Octane, this exact truck. It's my first Toyota truck, though I've owned a Lexus and my son is on his second Camry. I did not expect this to be such a pleasure to drive on the highway - I was wrong. This truck exceeds my on-road expectations by a mile.
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  14. Had the pleasure of meeting AMD and Mrs. CCN last week when I stopped in for an inspection of my new to me 2006 Avalon. Drove 45 miles and will do it again when I need a repair that's beyond my skill set. What terrific, absolutely wonderful people. Not easy to find this level of craftsmanship and honesty. Not to mention an awesome YT channel. Look forward to the next video AMD - hope you can find the time with all of the work you have running the new shop. And yes to anyone wondering - the shop is actually cleaner than it loos on the video's if you can imagine that!!
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  15. My one Toyota CPO experience was excellent, they missed some TSBs and my service manager made sure everything was brought up to spec under warranty. It's a 2002 Tundra that I purchased in 2003 with 17,000 miles... it now has 178,000 miles and it's easily the best vehicle out over 60 vehicles that I have owned.
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  16. One of the many things I like and made sure of when getting my new Corolla is that it has a timing chain. Plus I drive it like an elderly woman so it should last 547,422 miles at least.
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  17. You are you, that was why I drove 8 hours from Texas to have you serviced my car last year. Thank you and keep doing what you do best: reparing car.
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  18. 2 days ago, I was very fortunate enough to tour TMMTX. Toyota Manufacturing Texas. TMMTX is home of the Tundra and Sequoia. I am a Volvo guy at heart, my 2008 S80 saved my life in a rear-end collision. Although, we have owned 8 Toyota and Lexus models in our family, and almost all of them have always got us where we needed to go reliably. Everyone at the plant was happy, with a smile on their face and waving to the tourists. They all seemed like they liked their jobs. It was a treat. And I know have a heart for Toyota like never before. I highly, highly recommend touring a Toyota factory, if you are Toyota loyal. It is quite a treat, and amazing to see.❤
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  19. Unbelievable. Just like humans. If you eat well and maintain yourself, your insides will be in top shape
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  20. AMD, I hope your dealership treats you well. You provide the best information. Your information makes me feel more conferrable about dealing with Toyota dealerships I can trust, as , I have been a Toyota owner for more than 30 years. Its guys like you and some service advisers that keeps me coming back. THANK YOU
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  21. Your customers are very lucky to have a tech and shop like you and yours. Everything you recommend is spot on. My Tacoma has 290000 and still going strong due to oil and filter changes regularly at 5000 miles. Same with the "maintenance free" transmissions. I change the fluid every 50 thousand miles on it as well.
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  22. I can't say it enough. This series is gold!
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  23. Absolutely the best Toyota technical resource on YouTube. Fantastic content every time. As a DIY member of a family with two Lexus ES350's (2015/2022), a '13 Corolla, and a '20 Rav4, I can't get enough good information. I'll be be doing the transmission fluid update on my 350 this spring or summer. And you've got a QuickJack!!! 😁😁
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  24. My mom bought a 2016 Avalon Hybrid Limited, so comfortable. All the safety tech, low miles, heated/cooled seats, sunroof, way nicer than the 2018 Prius she was going to get. I'm glad I told my mom to look at the used cars before she bought a new car. The Avalon was only a few thousand more, but such a better car.
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  25. Thanks for putting out this video. Great information for future reference. Our 2012 F150 EcoBoost died on us while on vacation. We had 143,000 miles on it and one of the turbos failed. No turbos available within our time frame. We walked next door to a Toyota dealer and bought a 2018 Toyota Tundra Limited with 34,000 miles on it for around $40,000. Although we miss the low end torque and power of the turbos, the Tundra pulls steady and straight. We know that Toyotas have a pretty good rep. Ram
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  26. Excellent video! Finding an honest and reliable automotive repair shop is incredibly hard. I was taking my vehicles to a small shop run by father and son. They were great! Unfortunately, the small shop went out of business due to property lease issues. I have worked on cars all my life and I know when I'm being scammed or the work is poor quality. My local Toyota dealership sucks. I'm having a difficult time even finding a competent shop for a simple oil change! The search is on. It's maddening.
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  27. Thank you sir for you're honest straightforward and sometimes brutally honest point of view. It is a breath of fresh air. I'm glad to see your shop is doing well! And may the Lord keep and bless you as well
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  28. I own a 1988 MR2 with 71,000 miles and it’s my daily driver. I get so many compliments about how cool the car looks and how they wish they never should of got rid of it.
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  29. Seeing you discuss the Prius CVT made me want to share my thoughts on it. What's called a planetary in the video is a differential, a differential is only planetary gears. Differentials are used in all cars to keep power applied to the drive wheels equally while turning corners. You may remember a time when one drive wheel slips in mud or snow and the other wheel goes nowhere. So imagine a rear wheel drive car with one rear tire removed and pretend the car magically stays suspended. Then disconnect the hand brake from the wheel thats on the ground and leave it attached only to the floating brake hub. Put the car in gear and try to drive it. It won't go anywhere. Like in the snow, the hub will only just spin because of the differential. Then start applying the hand brake to that hub, slowing it down, and the differential will put torque on the other wheel. The car will go and you can control the engine rpm and vehicle speed with the combined use of the gas pedal and the handbrake. If you put enough pressure on the handbrake so that the hub completely stops, the differential will pass all the power to the drive wheel. That's the principle behind the Prius CVT. Now replace the handbrake with a generator and instead of creating a lot of heat with the handbrake you create electricity with the generator. Increasing the field current of the generator produces more electricity and puts more of a load on the differential. Consequently more torque is applied to the other wheel. Of course, the electricity needs a place to go so put a motor directly on the other wheel, a battery to store fluctuations of demand, a computer to control the whole system, and you have a Prius! No friction parts in the CVT since it's only basically a differential. When slowing, the engine stops, the generator just spins with no field current, and the motor acts as a generator, charging the battery while slowing the car. Finally the brakes bring the car to a stop. So the Prius actually has two differentials (planataries), one is the CVT and the other is just the usual one on the wheels. All elegantly put into the same shell with the motor and generator. To recap, the CVT differential has three shafts, the engine, the generator, and the motor which is always connected directly to the usual wheel differential.
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  30. I appreciate how much info you put into your videos. Lately, I've been watching them like Saturday morning cartoons!
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  31. At my former shop we made YouTube videos showing the condition and why we recommended work before and then after work was completed. This effectively took the trust issue off the table since people could see specifically why their vehicle needed work. On issues where testing was required they were shown the tests before and after. Many times customers trusted us and didn't bother looking at the materials we sent but often it made die-hard believers out of our customers and a few times it saved us from customers that would claim something "wasn't doing that before", it was always nice to pull up their video and give them a specific time stamp showing yes indeed it was faulty before and here's the video evidence.
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  32. I’ve owned many Toyotas over the years and they’ve all been good as far as reliability is concerned. Reliability is the number one issue for me when buying a new vehicle.
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  33. finally, someone called the automotive journalists out :D Seriously, they will only praise a car if it is fun to drive. And by fun they mean taking 1 corner slightly faster than usual in your suv, or station wagon car. 99 Precent of the journey you are riding around crappy roads or just sitting in traffic. Every car these days is fitted with some sport tuned suspension so it pleases those journalists, but they dont live with those cars. They have them for like 2 hours. I am never listening to journalists again. Like as you said in the video, if you want a sports car you get one. Not try to make daily drivers into something they are not.
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  34. The amount of familiarity and knowledge this man has to take a car apart to this extent is insane.
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  35. I never forgot the advice I got when I bought my first car. The sales guy told me, if I do nothing else, keep up with oil changes and general maintenance. So true.
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  36. Five years ago, the dashcam saved me about $3500.00 when my daughter (was a new driver back then) 's car was hit and the other more experienced driver was jumping up and down claiming that my daughter hit her car. She even filed claim against my insurance for damages by pointing out that my daughter was an inexperienced driver. She was loud and demanding! After I viewed the dashcam footage, I called her insurance up and told them that the all accident was on film. I sent the video clip to the other's driver's insurance company and they admitted fault, paid for my car, and the most satisfaction was... I was able to shut up the other driver's mouth right up.
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  37. A 1/2 to 3/4 inch fuel line fits right over the bottom of the oil filter drain funnel. Does a great job reducing the mess.
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  38. Fun fact 0W16 is actually 0W15. They didn't want to confuse consumers with using the number 15 thinking it would use 15W oils. This weight oil has been used in Japan years before it came to the U.S. mostly for hybrid applications.
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  39. Another great and informative video by AMD. So much insight, although I do not own a Venza but I can definitely appreciate the car better now. Great camera work too Aroz. AMD- a big thank you for taking the time to bring this amazing content to us. I always find myself looking forward to the next video
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  40. I personally think the canister (just the filtration element) types are better if you want to keep a check on engine wear. It is much easier to see if you are getting metal sparkles in the oil.
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  41. Toyota "this transmission fluid doesn't have to be changed. It lasts the lifetime of the transmission." Me: "hey my transmission died at 60,000 miles because I didn't change the fluid!" Toyota: "well the fluid lasted the life of the transmission though didn't it? I guess it's time to change your fluid now..."
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  42. Great video. You're right about changing intervals. I'm 60 years old, and when I was young, I had a 1976 Chevy Vega. I don't know how many here know about these, but they had aluminum blocks with cast iron pistons and cast iron head. They started smoking at about 10K miles and were shot by 25K - if you were lucky. They were terrible. My engine was replaced under warranty and I decided to take super good care of it. For the first 50 miles, I drove it with the oil put in by the dealership. I then changed it to Amsoil Parasynthetic oil and drove it 1500 miles. I then switched to Amsoil full synthetic and changed it every six months from then on. I sold the car to my sister with 126,000 miles on it and it didn't use a drop of oil! She drove the car for several years until she backed out of my parent's driveway and when it dropped off the curb, the car literally broke in half from rust! This was back in the '70s when people thought synthetic oil was snake oil and it was hard to convince people to use it, and it was expensive - over $3/qt back then when you could buy regular oil for like 0.75/qt. If synthetic oil and regular changes can protect a Vega engine, imagine what it will do to a well engineered car! :D
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  43. Excellent video. I was told that if my 2010 Highlander had been a 2011, that I would be able to change the oil every 10,000 miles, even though it had the same engine as my 2010. I told the dealer it made no sense. Thanks for showing why not to do that. My 2010 now has 275,000 miles and is still going strong. Keep up the good work and the honesty. Not sure where you are located but I would bring you all my high milleage Toyos. All the best.
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  44. The most informative, practical, to the point video's from a very knowledgeable guy who explains things in layman's terms. Thanks for sharing and making us all better informed. Hard to find mechanics now a days of your caliber. I despise having work done on my vehicle because its hard to trust anyone to do things right .If your shop was around me would definitely give you my business. Wishing your new shop much prosperity! Im a 2022 toyota tundra owner, loved your technical review video, and got some good tips from it to hopefully get 500k miles out of it. Any tips on that engine? Is a cooldown period required for the turbos before shutting down?
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  45. I recently sold my '05 LS 430. In the 10 years that I owned it, it had very few faults. I had to replace the trunk struts and the lock actuators. That was it, besides maintenance. Loved that car!
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  46. Spending a Saturday morning with a pot of coffee, and watching Ahmed teach me. Perfect start to the day.
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  47. I would rather have a 2017 LS 460. It’s smooth, quiet and has that buttery smooth 4.6 liter v-8.
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  48. The parts cannon method of car repair is best left to us amateurs
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  49. I love your videos! Thanks for being an honest mechanic. I have always owned Toyotas and have always changed the oil in all of my cars at 3000 miles. Recently, our 95 Honda Civic which we are the original owners of, blew a head gasket at 400,000 miles. When we had the head sent to get machined, the machinist said that it was as clean as a new engine and did the machining at no charge because he wanted to see it reach a million miles.
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  50. So nice. Nothing but even more successes coming your way.
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