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Originally Posted by RoxToy00
BUT WHY IN THE HELL do Toyota parts cost so much more than aftermarket parts???
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Sometime in the last 20 years or so, Toyota USA decided to start gouging on parts. Not all parts, but many/most. And...sometimes, the price goes way up, and then a few years later it goes down.
You just gotta know that $150 is too much to pay for a $40 brake hose.
I surmise that their market research has told them that so few people perform any of their car's own maintenance/service these days, the consciousness of parts prices is more or less gone from their customers minds.