Has your 4th gen been expensive to maintain?

[Keros]

Wow is right, that's $12,100 but to be fair that's Canadian $, in USD that's only $9,516....but still hurts just reading it, also that's only in the last 4 years, I don't even want to know what he paid in maintenance from 2012 to 2018, but that's stealership prices for you (full mark up on parts and their high labor) and not doing your own work, not doing your own work I can understand that not everyone knows how to do the work....but at those prices I would quickly learn how if I didn't know how to do the work!!

The cost would of been much, much lower if he had bought OEM parts online at the several dealerships that offer discounted prices and had the work done at an independent garage.

Keros, Think of all the tools you could have purchased to do these repairs with all the money spent. Learn to wrench and impress your lady. Holy shiznit! Who spends $800 on a radiator on a daily driver? That is plain nutz.

I've rebuilt enough engines, swapped enough clutches, suspensions, brakes and the like; and fought many rusted bolts in that time. I've had my fill, thanks.

Regardless, in the lower mainland, it's absolutely ridiculously expensive to have a reliable place to wrench on something while at the same time that place isn't an absolute shit-hole to live in.

Thankfully, prior to 2017, it only needed oil changes. The biggest problem it had was a coil pack filled with water once, and I ran on 7-cylinders for a while until I was able to take it in. Changed the oil while it was in the shop, the coil packs are surprisingly cheap. That and the RAS sensors, but I really like the way the truck handled and I didn't want to screw anything up, so I fixed the problem.

When something comes apart, the radiator for example, everything around it gets replaced as well and anything that doesn't look nice on the way to it. So upper & lower rad hoses, clamps, everything OEM. I make sure to get my money's worth out of the labour. I didn't list every specific component because I didn't even put it in the spreadsheet, it was too much specifics.

The shop that did the vast majority of the work is a local, independent shop. We've severed our relationship now due to various issues. In any case, it's more cost effective for me to spend my time doing what I'm good at, and get paid for, and leave the auto-repair to the professionals.

 

[4r-4ever]

I've spent around $11,300 for the 15 years i've owned it. this includes the annual oil change and i did all the repair.

here's the video of all that repair and the cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77X034V63w

 

[TejasRunner01]

I've rebuilt enough engines, swapped enough clutches, suspensions, brakes and the like; and fought many rusted bolts in that time. I've had my fill, thanks.

Regardless, in the lower mainland, it's absolutely ridiculously expensive to have a reliable place to wrench on something while at the same time that place isn't an absolute shit-hole to live in.

Thankfully, prior to 2017, it only needed oil changes. The biggest problem it had was a coil pack filled with water once, and I ran on 7-cylinders for a while until I was able to take it in. Changed the oil while it was in the shop, the coil packs are surprisingly cheap. That and the RAS sensors, but I really like the way the truck handled and I didn't want to screw anything up, so I fixed the problem.

When something comes apart, the radiator for example, everything around it gets replaced as well and anything that doesn't look nice on the way to it. So upper & lower rad hoses, clamps, everything OEM. I make sure to get my money's worth out of the labour. I didn't list every specific component because I didn't even put it in the spreadsheet, it was too much specifics.

The shop that did the vast majority of the work is a local, independent shop. We've severed our relationship now due to various issues. In any case, it's more cost effective for me to spend my time doing what I'm good at, and get paid for, and leave the auto-repair to the professionals.

I totally get that sentiment. Luckily, you are still way ahead when you consider a new truck these days is 40k + . Your own time definitely has a value too!

 

[TejasRunner01]

I've spent around $11,300 for the 15 years i've owned it. this includes the annual oil change and i did all the repair.

here's the video of all that repair and the cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77X034V63w

I loved seeing your detailed spreadsheet. Thanks for the post. If you keep it up, you’ll still have the 4Runner in 15 years!