Yeah, that makes sense. FWIW, the drain plug goes in diagonally, and I wonder how much oil and debris is could be left in the undrained well. makes me wish I had changed the oil in mine as soon as I got it home. For future new vehicle purchases, I think I will start doing that.
Yup, I watched a couple of his videos and I'm certainly going to switch to the Purolator Boss filter. The amount/size of contaminants using the Toyota OEM was really surprising! I also watched some videos from TheMotorOilGeek on YouTube, and those were interesting as well.
I have a 2024 TRD Sport, born on 16 Feb 2024 at the Guanajuato plant (3TY VIN). Took delivery of it this past March and noticed the last few days some oil spots on my driveway. I took a good look underneath the vehicle this morning and, sure enough, the bottom of the rear diff was wet. From...
Never mind, I was resetting the oil maintenance reminder instead of the “scheduled maintenance” reminder. Once I reset the “scheduled” reminder the notification cleared. Yes, I am an idiot, ha!
Is anyone else having issues trying to reset the “maintenance required” notification after an oil change or at the 5,000 mile interval? I tried several times, making sure I selected “Yes” each time, and still it will not reset. If you were successful please let me know how you did it, thanks!
I live in Fredericksburg, VA, and when I was waiting on my 2024 Sport a few short months ago I too thought that the mid-Atlantic distribution point was through Baltimore, but it's not. I thought for certain that my truck my have been on a ship that went into Sparrows Point the day AFTER the...
Here’s another…. Open the driver’s side door and remove this cover:
On the front side of the cover there looks to be some Morse code, and on the back there’s a QR code… scan the code with your phone.
On my Tacoma, which has the 14” monitor, I use that to set my light and door lock controls. On the GEAR icon on the monitor go to Vehicle Customize and you’ll see Lights, Door Control, Climate and Utility settings. Again, I’m assuming you have the larger monitor, not sure if it’s the same...
Not sure if any Toyota software engineers peruse forums like this one to get intel on what customers are experiencing or discussing about their vehicles, but I have seen some software glitches with my 2024 Tacoma Sport and I thought a that a thread to document what we are experiencing might be a...