Comments by "MediocreMan" (@mediocreman2) on "The Car Care Nut" channel.

  1. Sounds like a lot of work/expense. I also have a 1994 car, but it's double galvanized and doesn't rust. I really wish Toyota would figure out the process that other manufacturers have known for decades.
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  2. They take up headroom, they allow more noise through, they create a higher center of gravity, and they usually will leak. Good choice.
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  3. ​ @Sashazur  You might want to look into CAFE standards. These government standards were so horribly thought out and written so poorly that it actually incentivizes manufacturers to build larger trucks. Did you notice how after Obama changed the CAFE law that massive trucks started showing up? Did you know that these trucks being so large actually increased death rates for everyone else? Especially pedestrians? Did you know that if they decreased the height of the front grill by 3.75" there would be a 25% decrease in fatalities? Did you know that an Abrams tank has better front visibility than these modern full size trucks? If your child is under 5' tall, their chances of being killed as a pedestrian increase dramatically.
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  4. That is such an ugly truck.
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  5. Not only that, but assuming that a 20 year old kid will perfectly reassemble everything.
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  6. Yeah I worry that the problem will return. Because there was no initial cause. So if he assembled it as good as the factory did, it could just happen again.
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  7. Just do regular transmission fluid changes, not flushes every 40,000 miles. And you'll be good to go.
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  8. It would only take a small person above that weight sitting right there to break it. That's where people sit all the time to tie shoes, tailgate, etc.
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  9. I used to have one of those. Almost fun with the five speed.
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  10. Now that's a practical truck. More than 95% of truck owners will need.
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  11. That's the biggest factor that keeps smart people away from Toyotas. Like how have they not figured out how to galvanize yet? Some Audi/VW/Porsche figured that out 40 years ago. I guess you swap rust for less reliability. 😄
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  12. You never changed the oil cooler lines for metal ones? Or did yours come with metal ones? Otherwise I'm surprised you haven't lost your engine.
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  13. The engine itself is fairly reliable, and decently powerful. However the area that Toyota gives you to work on this engine in any of the cars it is in, is horrible. For the sienna, it requires the engine to come out for a water pump change if you follow the manual that is. However you can do it without taking it out, but of course it is still very difficult.
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  14. These are crowns in name only.
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  15. 5.7 is worse than 4.6 and 4.7
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  16. ​ @maxpool162 That makes zero sense. Take a truck with higher headlights and a car that has lower headlights, both reaching the same projection distance, and assuming the exact same headlight design.. The lower vehicle's headlights are not angled upwards. The amount of distance, from top to bottom, the truck headlights cover is greater than the car. The car might cover a distance of 20 inches, whereas the truck could be 40 inches. For vehicles coming the opposite direction, the height of that driver's eyes will be much more likely to be at or below the truck headlights and above the car headlights. It boggles my mind that someone doesn't understand this kind of stuff. All it takes is five minutes of driving around at night to know that taller vehicles blind more than shorter vehicles.
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  17. Right. Especially since some people will sell those cars, or not return to that mechanic to get a warranty claim. They'll just get it fixed somewhere else or do it themselves.
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  18. Well, on a Toyota yeah you especially need to do that. My Sienna is rusting away as we speak even though I wash it often.
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  19. The SC430 is possibly the ugliest modern car of all time. Proportions are horrendous, wheels are horrific, headlights are a disaster, and it didn't know what it was trying to be. A GT car? No, too impractical. A sports car? No, not even close. A sports coupe? Nope. A family convertible? No, too small. A luxobarge? No , too small. A fast car? No, too slow and too boring. If you have to explain why a car is cool to someone, it's not cool.
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  20. That's really strange. They've been UV blocking factory windows for decades and I haven't heard of anybody saying there's an issue with any of my cars. Maybe they use a different process on newer cars.
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  21. My Toyota is rusting apart also. People give German cars a hard time, but none of my German cars are rusting away into the earth like my Toyota is. 😅
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  22. Not quite a station wagon, but I get it.
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  23. Yeah they have Rock Solid reliability, oh wait that's rust on my toyota.
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  24. You might want to see if yours is recalled.
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  25. The Tacoma broke
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  26. I use all three of mine regularly, so I'm not sure what you mean by useless. Maybe you live in a very dry area.
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  27. Car reviewers are often very disconnected from reality. They focus on things like Apple carplay and how that's so important. It's the least of my concerns. I want buttons and dials and reliability.
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  28. Man, that rust is insane for a new-ish vehicle.
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  29. Oh good the new Toyota Origami! 😅
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  30. Not all of them decouple. The earlier Sienna and Highlander systems are on all the time.
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  31. That's only if you consider cars as transportation only. Just like I like my Toyotas for their reliability, I like my fun cars for their performance and fun. And no, no car maker truly does both successfully.
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  32. Wow what a rude thing to say! Kilmer is rarely right, biased about everything, and is 90% a hack. This guy on this channel actually knows what he's talking about instead of knowing how to be entertaining first like kilmer.
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  33. What an absurd design. Do engineers even own cars for more than a couple of years?
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  34. ​ @roddydykes7053 That's just not true. Don't confuse general reliability with ease of maintenance. If you want an easy to maintain transverse v6, look at the Honda engines in the Odyssey and the Pilot. You can change all of the plugs in probably 20 minutes because you don't have to remove any of that stuff.
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  35. This is such a pain. No matter what your skills are, Toyota only gives you about 1/2" of access to do this job. And if someone else was in before you, then you have to try to clean up the mating surface without being able to see or access what you're doing. At least on a Sienna. I've worked on tons of different cars, including German cars and this was in the top 3 for frustration level.
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  36. Toyota hates mechanics lol. It really is a pain to reach those rear plugs. On a Honda 3.5 it's about 9000x easier.
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  37. Which would be very easy to exceed with one small person that weighs over 120 lb. That's a very common area to tie shoes, to tailgate, etc.
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  38. I'll take the one without the grille the size of a small galaxy please.
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  39. Feel? Hope you don't vote with your feelings too.
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  40. I've owned many cars, including several German cars. The only time I've ever had a leaking water pump was on 2 of my 3 Toyotas. 😅
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  41. ​ @bme7491 That's pretty rich coming from the guy that doesn't understand that warm water works better than cold water.
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  42. China being china. It'll never stop.
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  43. Wow that's crazy. I've never had to replace that many parts on even my 96 Audi with 270k on it.
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  44. Or a Honda v6. They are dead simple easy to change
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  45. Honestly that's a surprising amount of flaws in this car. People associate higher mileage with lower costs, but it sounds like this is very expensive to keep running.
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  46. Why do you think it's a 600k transmission since he mentioned several times it had been removed? It had been replaced or rebuilt at least once.
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  47. That is such a hideous car. That bubble on the hood doesn't match anything else on the car. It's like 5 different teams designed different sections of the car separately then got together for the due date and slapped it together.
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  48. That is definitely not a wagon.
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  49. The only advantage of living there.
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  50. Very accurate. I replaced a thermostat preventatively on one of my Toyotas and when I sold it, I mentioned that to a potential buyer and they were scared off that something HAD been done. 😅 They'd rather buy it thinking it never needed anything.
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