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Good luck finding one where the dealer doesn't add all the BS accessories to drive the price up...

Eliminating CAFE regulations so we can have a v6 option. Move the 4wd selector knob somewhere your thigh won't contact it accidentally. Cut $10k off the top and reduce the amount of safety sally bs. More headroom for people gifted with height. Flat folding second row. Better exterior color...

have to expect the windshield will need to be replaced aventually. Here in Houston, tinted windshields are everywhere. Sure they're highly illegal, but the cops don't seem to care, even when you can tell every window is 5%...

chasing mpg but moving from a 6th gen to a 5th gen seems... unrealistic. Unless, the 5th gen sits forever and gathers dust while the beater super uber mpg queen takes the brunt of the travel duties. Still, sounds like a bad deal. Keep the 6th gen, get a super cheap beater with relatively good...

you're dumping the 6th gen for a 5th gen + super/awesome/hybrid/unobtanium/ultra efficient commuter? Won't the total cost of the commuter + 5th gen wipe out any difference from the 6th gen? The 5th is gonna get way worse mgp than the 6th. The commuter will help, but enough to offset the...

increasing HP does not necessarily increase or maintain system longevity though. Chasing power can indirectly affect engine health. I'm not sold on the SXTH inter-cooler design with regard to flow numbers and pressure drop. changing from the crappy 0w20 water to a more robust oil, better HTHS...

You'll be lucky to stay in viscosity at 5k oci's on 0w20...

You're expecting way too much common sense there man...

A simple search on the Toyota site shows 5 Limited models under 60k...

And yet, they still didn't take the time to verify international manuals to see if Toyota spec'd alternative viscosities as acceptable...which they did.

Correct. This is the ONLY reason the US manual lists a single viscosity. They are restricted legally to list the viscosity used for testing, and nothing else. The people who rely solely on the manual as a "must never deviate from" rule, have probably never heard of tolerances... You're not wrong...

You can absolutely run 5w30 with no issues...

Except that’s not what international manuals say. They clearly indicate other viscosities can be used. While using 0w20 isn’t necessarily wrong, it isn’t necessarily right when factoring in the environment

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I use 5w30, so I guess it's irrelevant...

FWIW

Mobil 1 ESP 5w30 HTHS 3.5 3000 oci

nothing makes a 4 cyl sound good...

I think you'll find TCCN would advise Toyota fluids

No, you're not intended to grease that zerk. Just the five left accessible. Almost any NLGI 2 is fine