I feel your pain. It takes me an easy hour to change the oil and grease the DLs on my '15 4Runner, and ramps are mandatory. I cuss it every time, but learn a new trick and get a little faster every 5K miles. I'll never love the rig, and know it'll bleed me someday because it's packed with lots of electronic BS.

My bare bones, manual everything '97 Tacoma on the other hand, still makes me smile every single time drive it or even think about it for that matter. Oil changes are almost as fast as I want them to be, and no ramps needed.

I'm convinced that automobile "engineers" are paid to make things complicated enough to discourage DIY'ers and/or pad the bill of dealerships.


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