And I bet you thought you were a Toyota nerd

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I have been to the Nagoya museum that he talks about. It absolutely is worth a trip - one of the coolest places I've ever been. It's like no museum I've ever seen. It's probably better than the Smithsonian in terms of the quality of the displays. Not the breadth, but certainly the quality of the textile and automotive history displays is better.

Watched the start then skipped to the WS section. Very interesting. Anyone here running Maxlife should watch for the comments on that fluid at around the 38:00 mark.

I watched the video.

There are countless numbers of people on the Tacoma forum who have been running the Valvoline MaxLife ATF in the 2nd Gen Aisin A750E/A750F transmission for years.

I hear nothing but good things about it. No complaints about performance or failure.

I switched a 2006 Avalon - WS required - over to Walmarts Super Tech Dex VI about 50,000 miles ago. Shifts smooth as glass.

I will continue to run Toyota's WS in my wifes '14 4R and my '15 Tacoma for the foreseeable future, but only because the ebay price for Toyota WS is fairly close in price to WMs Dex-VI.

When WS was in its infancy, I could see the WS-only requirement, but as the man said, the formulation between 2002 WS and 2019 WS is not the same. I believe the same holds true for some of the WS-compatible fluids. If not, why are so many doing so well with it?

Use what you like. If it works for you, so be it.

You make fair points, and this parallels the never ending oil debate. People choose to pay more for Mobil 1 when the difference in engine wear using SuperTech”s full synthetic is almost certainly too negligible to be significant. I don’t judge anyone for it because despite believing that, I often do the same thing.

My intent was not to tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t use, simply to highlight a credible source of information. The best choice is an informed choice.

Cliffs notes on the video?

See post #3

40 minutes for that?