Definitely an awesome car for college ! Super reliable as well.👍

@@cleytonsilva6879 the oil was changed three times before that I changed it at around 3500 miles and then the dealer did it as part of the Toyota care. They did the oil and filter at 10 and 20,000 miles. The last free service was 25,000 miles at which time they rotated the tires and topped off all fluids. So I did it at 30,000 miles and I sent out the oil sample. I did the same thing with my RAV4 prime. It turns out my local Toyota dealer uses excellent quality oil. don’t forget these engines are in a very low state of tune not working very hard , between the hybrid system taking over a lot of the idle time and helping during acceleration and cruising the gasoline, engine doesn’t have to work as hard and it doesn’t make as much horsepower as the regular version. The engine is tuned for economy and longevity primarily,not performance.

Since it is is easy to do I check mine every other oil change .Its never had any real build up on it.

I know I just reused it for the 40,000 mile service that blue one was used twice by the dealer you can tell they never changed it

Congrats on then cross hybrid! They aren’t easy to get , I’ve heard dealers are going to be marking them up . My car was a 2020 the new ones now use 0W-8 motor oil ….. at the time I made my video. It was very difficult to find the motor oil people looked at you all confused when you tried to buy it even the Toyota dealer didn’t have it in quart or gallons. They did however have it in bulk they told me to provide them with a clean container I could’ve purchased it, I didnt like that idea much . Eventually I found Mobil one brand in a Walmart. When I serviced it again at 30,000 miles I couldn’t even find that I ended up buying STP in quarts from my local Autozone. It was a lot More expensive that way. I now own a Rav 4 prime it too takes 0-16. I have seen other brands now in zero16 my brother now stocks zero 16 in his shop., I’ve also seen Pennzoil platinum brand at Walmart. Changing the oil tomorrow on the rav4 doing the 40k service . I still have a leftover jug of Mobil one zero16 from the Corolla and an oil filter from it as well since they are the same I’m gonna use them up and then I’ll probably go with the Pennzoil going forward.Again congrats hope your new car gets here soon. From my experience whatever the EPA says the car will get you can easily do much better. I did 9 to 10 miles per gallon better than the EPA without even trying with the Corolla hybrid .

@@LadooCrew They can be tricky,the same pressure you need to apply to get it to turn works against you,iI always try a different screwdriver if it doesn’t fit correctly you have to push too hard and then it just spins and won’t back out.

I’ve been using Blackstone labs for years and I’ve never had a problem with them. The problem is with the USPS. They took the Postal Service almost 6 months to deliver my oil sample. I’ve got the tracking information to prove it , I didn’t want to sidetracked the video anymore that I did. I can make a whole of the video just on this situation alone and how poorly was handled by the USPS Blackstone labs was absolutely great like I said they sent out my sample and results before they even processed my credit card.

@@JohnDiMartino I used them a lot 15-20 yrs ago & just started again this year. The 1 recent sample I sent made it there USPS no problem, but then hadn't got run in like a month. When I started fishing around oil forums & stuff it was easy to find all kinds of others with similar issue. After I started to ask questions with Blackstone about where my analysis was it miraculously was tendered a day or so later. Thanks for your video!

I’ve found out how to avoid this in most cases. Otherwise you are correct it runs it a few minutes and shuts down . When the battery is full, I found that you cannot regen brake , it’ll start the engine . Do not use cruise in EV mode if you don’t want to run the engine ,it’ll trigger something that starts the engine ,and use the defrost / blend button not the first defrost only. I run the gas engine usually 3-4x a week minimum I’m putting 10 k miles on every 6 months so it’s getting one every 6 months and I run about 35-40 percent miles in hybrid the rest Ev

I wouldn’t let this stop you . Besides it is one sample . I’m at 37500 now I’ll sample again at 40k . Currently using the gas engine less because then range is better this time of the year .The Rav4 Prime is an amazing little SUV, performs like much pricier vehicles and gets great mpg . Can plug in whenever available

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That’s the bulk Toyota oil they use at the dealer.

My trips are a minimum of a half an hour and 20 miles when I run the engine that’s the part. I don’t understand. I don’t run it short trips because I have electric to use for them.

I agree and that’s about the mileage. That’s about the miles it has on it , the rest of these miles are all electric. This oil has about 4000 miles on it. If you look at the video I did when I change that you can see how clean it still was you can hardly see it on the dipstick. There’s days I put 40 miles on the car for a week and the car hadn’t run once.

This oil sample was from July-December and I garage my car it never gets below 40 in there ever usually 45-50 in the morning when it’s 25-30 outside .

@@JohnDiMartino And from work ?

It happens when engine is cold and while it reaches operating temperature. The warmup period is most crucial for oil and most oil degradation happens in that process. Severe driving conditions are what we all drive in and especially with hybrids when engine doesn’t turn on for days, weeks. It would be good to make sure engine turns on and runs at operating temperature for 15 minutes every driving cycle. Keep in mind that new hybrids also use very thin oil, 0W-8, 0W-16 and 0W-20. Mobil 1 does come I. Those grades and is a very good oil that meets Toyota standards. I am glad you did oils test, very few people would do it and you can see a lot from the results.

Good question , honestly I don’t know . I don’t see how it could have gotten more fuel n it . What gets me is I rarley run it for short trips if I start it I run it half hr or more .

After the USPS losing my oil sample for 5 months it finally arrived I’ll be doing a follow up video. After seeing my sample I tend to agree w you .

I never thought of it that way you’re probably right. I changed it and the dealer also put the same filter on that I used.One thing I’ve noticed now is the dealers do not replace the crush washers on the Toyota care services. Both my Corolla and Rav4s were done at 30k . I had to scrape them off they are one or 2 oil changes away from leaking they were so compressed .

@@JohnDiMartino Can this car really get 600 miles on a single tanks? I'm asking because I'm considering getting one.

@@realilty my personal best is 570 miles

@@vlad6380 That's great. What about winter numbers? I haven't heard anything on that yet.

@@realilty winter MPG 56 - That's about 500 miles on a tank. now MPG 59

Hard to say but there’s no idle time once it warms up . That alone saves engine run time and anytime you lift the throttle it shuts off and doesn’t restart until you are pressing down enough to go about 40-45 mph on flat ground once you push past that it starts. On highway trips it runs 99 percent of the time only shuts when coming off the interstate . My guess is 75 -80 percent of the miles it’s running

Be that as it may when I bought to I got 8k off sticker and used trucks 2 yrs old were only 1-3k cheaper. When I traded it I lost 6k for 3 years and 33k miles out zero into it exc oil changes and mods which I took most off to put on my new truck.

@JohnDiMartino You just bought another overpriced truck with no life time warranty like Toyota offers.

I don’t like the badges . It’s so much cleaner looking without them . I didn’t hurt them they can go right back although I don’t know why anyone would want to advertise for Toyota . Those who know , already know , 2 fuel fills , twin piston front calipers you can see thru the rims and I left the prime decal .

@@JohnDiMartino thanks, thought maybe you thought it a theft deterrent.

My rear diff was in bad shape when I bought it found out the locker is a common failure point and expensive to fix. My machine had a hard life before me so I’ve been fixing a lot of small issues . Glad you found a workaround . In my case my continuity to the starter was good from the key so it cranked but the bypass wire from the starter solenoid to the fuel solenoid was the issue , I found it strange how it would deliver 4-5 volts still , cleaning the connection fixed it 100 percent for me . My front diff does more pulling than the rear pushes at times not sure if that’s normal or not

It is on the oil ,as well. Just no idle time and some coasting engine off not much though. My RAV4 prime I have now that’s different it probably has 3-4k on the oil at 10k on the odometer .

It’s right here . kzbin.info/www/bejne/rV7aYnmtpaqMb7csi=WMqDxNwM6t3ICsQK

Yes it was , that car averages 61.9 for the life I had it and I didn’t drive it slow . My worst tank was high speed highway was 47mpg best was 68 mpg tank

Thank you .