How To Maintain Your Modern Toyota and Lexus Properly

A Toyota repair specialist shares how to maintain your Modern Toyota and Lexus Properly.

These recommendations come from a long career as a Toyota master diagnostic technician at a Toyota dealership then to now where I work as a shop owner specializing in Toyota and Lexus only.

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0:00 Intro
0:50 Engine Maintenance
5:41 Transmission Maintenance
8:32 4WD Maintenance
9:37 Other Fluid Maintenance
11:26 Hybrid Maintenance
13:14 Maintenance Considerations
16:54 Oldies But Goodies

[espo]

I took my little girl and drove the 13 1/2 hours from NY to Homer Glenn, Illinois to have Ahmed and his class A team work on my 2017 Tacoma. It was worth every penny I spent and every mile I drove to get my truck done, PROPERLY! I will be going back next year for more service and to look around for a place to live. I would love to move there as Homer, Glen Illinois is 180° change from where I am from in New York, it’s clean and the people are polite and it’s just a great place to raise a family. If you ever get a chance to go out that way and meet Ahmed and his team You will see that he is every bit, the gentleman and professional you see in his videos. Fantastic people at TCCN Automotive.

[rossjohnson]

I love these discussions. It’s like sitting across the table and talking to a good friend.

[deadpoet]

Wow. You were able to summarize maintenance on ALL Toyotas in less than 20 minutes... and in very simple straight forward instructions. Very impressive!

[adriahnogm]

I’ve set my service intervals according to this. Not even Toyota couldn’t make it clearer than this. Thank you very much sir. Best wishes from Europe!

[okanaganjustin]

Thank you as always! My local Toyota dealership wasn't happy with me when I asked for a drain and fill on my transmission fluid instead of a transmission flush, I reminded them they advertise it as a lifetime fluid haha

[af]

Good to see he is willing to publicly say the turbo engines need more frequent oil changes.

[rEdHoUsE_]

Ahmed is the type of guy you would invite over for a barbeque/cookout & chat about cars ... this Channel is one of my favourites ... 😊

[oldz]

I drove from Florida to see him, not for maintenance but to meet him. I'm a mechanic and have been for almost 40 years and also work on toyotas. He and i are on the same page when it comes to maintenance. Stuff i told my son about repairs, ahmed told him and he never met him. I used to work in a shop environment and it sucked. I worked for ford, gm, independent, etc. I'm a disabled veteran so i work what i can now and for my self.

[Thecelestial]

I bought my 2019 Camry new almost exactly 5 years ago. I've been following your maintenance guides and instructional videos for probably 3 of the years I've owned it since it came with 2 years of free maintenance. I'll tell you I feel so good knowing I'm doing everything I can to get this car to last as long as possible: engine and filter changes every 5k, air filters, transmission fluid, coolant, changed brakes and fluid and bled the system. I know I've saved thousands of dollars and learned so much from you so I wanted to say how much I appreciate it and thank you! She just passed 65k and got her oil changed and tires rotated, and she's still the best car I've ever owned!

[chrisikaris]

The Nut's videos are so good I watch them just to hear him talk even when I am not interested in the topic! He is one of the very few experts worth listening to. Many of the rest, such as SK, make videos just to generate clicks. I appreciate the fact that the Nut does not do that.

[moose]

Ahmed, thank you for another excellent Toyota maintenance video. You are truly a public servant. I always say that FLUIDS ARE CHEAP, but ENGINES ARE GEARBOXES ARE NOT. My schedule depending on if my Tundra or 4Runner:
Oil - 4000-5000 miles,
A/T fluid - 60000 miles,
Manual trans - 30000, ( I use Royal Purple syn fluid as it is GL4 and GL5 compatible. Do NOT use GL5),
Transfer case - 30000 (I use RAVENOL J1C1125 Transfer Case Fluid DTF-1 - Full Synthetic (1 Liter) om the 4Runner from Amazon. Half the price of Toyota OEM, meets same Toyota specs),
Front and rear diffs - 30000 (check the diff breather for proper operation. I use Royal Purple syn fluid),
Hydraulic clutch - check for dirty fluid, bleed and refill as necessary,
Brake fluid - use a moisture pen to check for water moisture in the brake fluid. Change if contaminated or dirty.

[st_Gen_Life]

Even though I don’t have a Toyota I still use a lot of your advice for my truck. Great video 👍

[gorongo]

I'm on a fixed income and I expect my car to run and ride like a Lexus forever. This channel is my guru for making that possible. Keeping it OEM.

[WarriorsPhoto]

I have a Corolla Hybrid that I use for work.

It's a great car and I hope to purchase it when the companies lease is up. These tips will help me keep that car for several years after it's released from service.

Thank you and may the lord keep you as well.

[carsify]

If there was a Honda YouTuber like you, it would be amazing. There might be, and I haven’t found them yet. Please keep up the good work.

[mkm]

I’ll share a short story, I replaced my power steering fluid on my 4 Runner, I drained it with a turkey baster and I replaced it with Royal Purple synthetic power steering fluid, I started the vehicle up let it run for about 10 to 15 seconds and it started making a whining noise and the steering locked up, I shut the vehicle off, looked inside the reservoir and it foamed up. So when I saw that I had to drain all of that out of there, but after I filled the reservoir back up, I guess there was still royal purple that got into the line and pump, it probably took about 4 quarts of Toyota power steering fluid to flush it all out. I had to use a turkey baster and suck out the reservoir probably about 8 or 9 times until it became cherry red again in the reservoir. Eventually, the noise stopped and the steering freed up again, so evidently I didn’t do any damage to the pump. I haven’t had a problem since. So even though Royal Purple synthetic power steering fluid is good I guess it’s not compatible with Toyota’s power steering fluid. So like Ahmed said stick with Toyota fluids. Something that should’ve only taken probably 20 minutes ended up taking about four hours.

[joepoutine]

Mr car care nut I've been following your channel for quite awhile. I appreciate how you tell car owners how to maintain your cars and how to do and not to do to keep up your car. There's one thing that has never been mentioned that I think you should. A flat with all wheel drive card. I got a flat a couple weeks ago passenger side rear wheel. I do have a donut size tire for a spare that came with the car so I changed it. Took me 30 minutes no big deal, until I got 14km down the road my car told me wrong size tire on car high temp in differential pull over now . Too late by the time I stopped gear oil was leaking down the road . Had it towed to me dealership and as soon as I said I drove on the spare he said the differential was done. I've never heard and nobody else I know who some are not uninformed that you can't drive on donut spare tire all wheel drive. Had to change the differential it was toast and I was very lucky it didn't do any damage to my transmission too. I believe you need to make a video on spare tires for all wheel drive cars and not be driven on .
I've looked all over YouTube and couldn't find any videos about this but did find videos of the after effect of what happened to me with shredded gears in the rear differential.

[HamzMoto]

this is the video we needed. everything in one. now 1 video i can share for newer DIYers

[DarkKoffee]

Thank you very much for making all the technical stuff become so easy to follow. I’m all for maintenance and preventative care, and this is just awesome!

[Thulebeez]

Man this is another reason i subscribed to this channel i never get information like this from my local workshop, as old Lexus Owenr.