I have that same engine in a different Toyota product. Yep. Spent a couple of days feeling like Toyota’s engineering department was hazing me. I also once had a van with a serpentine belt that was impossible to remove without taking out a motor mount or two. Why?

I live in a pretty small town. We’ve had both for well over a year. Before that, we had some taxis (sketchier but serviceable). There are definitely people who live in places without any of that, but it probably isn’t many people.

Good luck!!!

Yeah, I’m a few years away from shopping for a first house. Love cars. Play the tuba. I feel like an HOA will have to be a deal breaker for me.

Story of my life.

It may depend on narrative more than model. Cars that have a story are worth a lot to their owners (says someone whose daily drivers are a Land Cruiser with 230k+ on the odometer and an English 3-speed bicycle that dates to WWII). What it isn’t about is logic.

I want to know how that many people came to be dragging the car back up that slope. Who were those guys? Where did they come from? What about the harness? Who just had that lying around?

Yep. That was a long day. Does anyone know why they sometimes put starters under the intake manifolds?

Agreed. My Land Cruiser is the smallest, most agile thing I’ve driven lately, so I know how to park. When I drove a Dodge Grand Caravan, I could parallel park it and fit it into one of those little spaces that are supposed to be reserved for compact cars at the grocery store.

A repair manual for the somewhat neglected Land Cruiser I bought recently. Money, some of which has already been spent on the truck. A couple of t-shirts that aren’t stained with oil.

It has a lot less to do with parts than narrative and continuity, much like our identities.