So many stories on the internet are missing CRITICAL DATA that matters… let’s chat

[davidglad]

Thanks for the explanation. As well as the note that luxury means you better be keeping current on the maintenance.

[SFzip]

He lies, she lies, numbers don't 🧮

[Pennychaser]

There are good portion of toyota owners who barely do oil changes let alone cooling system service. The ones that do fail there's probably high chance the owner(s) neglected cooling system maintenance. I know a guy who has 2012 ML350 with 100k miles. Asked him when he serviced coolant or transmission oil changed. His answer was 'never'. I cringed at that. Good chunk of toyota owners are the same way. They think it's a 'toyota' so they think they can only do oil changes to get to 300k miles

[jeffnesbitt]

Well said Josh! Everything needs to be maintained properly for great longevity

[gwilli]

Excellent video! I am vastly changing how often I do coolant flushes because of the valley plate leak and the problem with the gasket that is not sacrificial. To me, a very robust metal gasket in an aluminum engine that then gets to be sacrificed, makes a lot of sense as an eventual consequence of this set up. Amd mentioned coolant acidity and the pressures. Well, I can do my best with the acidity, the pressures are not really a factor that I would wish to modify. I just don’t know if every 2 or 3 years is the schedule for coolant flush that I will do, any evidence that folks have would be welcome. I do my own maintenance with OEM liquids, so it would not be very expensive, probably add 500-600$ per decade of maintenance, which for a 65$ k vehicle is very small price. Also wanted to agree with GX not being cheap, it has so many liquids and transmission parts, they all add up in the maintenance.

[joannwhite]

Hello Josh. I started watching your videos because you are an actual owner who seemed sincere about your experience. Some of these YouTubers are questionable. I hope that in the future there won’t be a litigation as a result of false info or defaming a manufacturer to put a stop to it. I was not aware there was a gasket issue on the GX460. It was good to see based on your research the number that was sold between 2010 and 2023 of the GX. Thank you for the informative video.

[SpectralBloo]

It should be noted by those in the second hand market, most buyers of luxury cars are not "car people". Some don't even know that oil changes are required (this case was a Mercedes owner, the car died at 2 years). I have become very skeptical of AMD recently, I do not believe he is as excellent a source for understanding new Lexus and Toyota's, his knowledge seems excellent about those he maintained during his dealerships days.

[CeeJay]

Thank you for posting this - regarding AMD, I watch him regularly and was very surprised when he posted the video on the UR series. It actually makes little sense as he himself purchased a gx460 for his wife recently AND had has heaped loads of praise on cars like the LC500, with the UR series as well. Anyone can watch his previous videos on these and other UR equipped cars to see for themselves. So, why the alarmist video now? Why not just post that UR engines need to be maintained properly and leave it at that? My guess is that he got a lot of flak from Toyota or their reps on his lukewarm take on their new engine offerings. As you highlighted very accurately in a previous video, Toyota has been de-contenting their cars for years and now are getting worried that their rep for reliability, which has allowed them to charge higher prices than competitors, is under serious threat. They just have cut too many corners, and they now have an army of YouTubers telling the general public that it’s all ok. AMD knows that Toyota would never bring back the previous-gen UZ v8s (as he recommends in the video) so he’s basically saying that the current V8 is not so great and it’s ok to buy the new TTV6, which is just not true at all.

[garywilson]

Good video. I have an 08 Tundra with 230, 000 miles on it. Do my own oil changes and other services. Never touched the transmission. I don't drive it hard. You hear all sorts of things like the valve springs breaking, etc. My truck still runs great. So good that I couldn't bring myself to buying a new truck a couple years ago even though I could afford it and write it off through my business. Boy did I dodge a bullet there. So we bought a GX460 and, like I told you before, I just love it. And my wife (because it's her car really) is coming around to it. Having managed a fleet of vehicles in the past as part of my job for a company I worked for, maintenance is everything.

[FatalAnimal]

I love numbers - The numbers put this in perspective. Social media massively inflates the reliability and unreliability of vehicles in general. It's very hard to sift through all the bullshit people say in places like reddit and car manufacturer forms. A little perspective is appreciated 😀

[markc]

Josh another great video. I always watch your videos because you always put your views are clearly articulated and well thought out.

[hipsilantro]

great video!!. since the toyota hype, people are so carefree about these cars that it’s testing their limit. and the car review audience thinks they know more about cars than they actually do (most of the time). i can only wonder how much of these issues is from misuse or improper operating conditions

[wonderboy]

So I'm back...lets start:
Data... gives you the truth, like you said numbers don't lie.
Each car reviewer on Youtube have a purpose (that's why I do not watch majority of them), AMD gives me the mechanical review that I like, Savagegeese gives me the humor/sarcasm/blunt and engineering/performance(Mark is a blunt/no filter tech and Jack is engineer) and Topher's gives me the handling and now you the data dude. The rest of the GURLS they are just like dealerships: salesmen.
Reading some of he comments abt AMD and his POV abt the mechanical aspects of the new Toyotas/Lexus being outdated, for me I think He knows what he's talking abt since he deals with Toyota/Lexus daily and I bet he gets well informed of the" new "Toyota engines(since he owns a 2000's LS430/Gx460 2023 and a Tundra edition 1794 2024 ). What people fail to realize is that Japanese manufactures are very conservative special Toyota they do not change their ways of doing like Korean and Eurotrash brands and when they change something that folks are not familiar with, the troll bots and fake news outlets go in....continue

[NoeC-bi]

Great video again! There is no perfect car and agreed that maintenance is extremely important. Gas prices go up and down so make sure you could afford it.

[ivankorth]

I bought my 23 GX brand new, I change oil every 4/5 miles and do my own oil change between every 10k Lexus oil change, I keep all receipts so the second owner can be confident mine was well maintained.

[Real_Natural]

My first reaction to the video being discussed was "oh it had >200k miles. Well I guess getting the coolant changed at 50k miles might be worthwhile." The engine in the 23 GX is a beauty. So smooth.

[randy]

If you watched his video intently, his takeaway was that you should over-maintain those UR engines. In other words, change the oil every 5, 000 miles or six months, whichever occurs first. That metal head gasket has flaws and oil/gasoline dilution will degrade that gasket seal over time. In addition, the one he was working on had over 200, 000 miles on it, so it was not a new engine by any means. All of those listed vehicles that Josh showed are luxury vehicles and you should over-maintain them unless you have money to burn or trade them in all the time.

[kofiasco]

As someone who’s subscribed to both this and AMD’s channel, and have seen this and the UR video AMD made, my take away from his video was:

“I’m seeing a trend, keep up with your maintenance if you want these things to last >200K”

I believe where he might have spooked the herd was when he said don’t bring back the V8. That was somewhat alarmist, I agree.

Overall he meant well.

[tarpatel]

excellent video and so true about the data and facts.

[TEQLC]

Josh says, "Keep Calm and don't get rid of your UR V8". ;)