Originally Posted by Tinkertech

Cars nowadays are becomming too expensive and extremely difficult to repair. It would be nice for engineers to return to simpler designs at least in the repair category.

I won't even mention all the regular and specialized tools and high end electronic scanners just to diagnosis a issue.

Heck, you can't even buy a simple inexpensive service manual anymore, Haynes does not make one for this car and the Lexus info site is too expensive for casual use.

Cars now days are not going in the right direction, you put it in drive and it backs up! :-)