I still can't understand why Toyota did away with the dipstick and made not only oil changing but even checking the level such a faff when the 5 speed box arrived.
The filler point is half way up the box and no way are you going to gravity refill, unless you feed a long pipe down from the engine bay, so you need a pump of some sort.
In comparison, changing the autobox oil on my Forester is a doddle, sump plug off it drains in minutes, refil via the disptick tube witrh suitable funnel, no need to check or replace the filter because it has a spin on filter which looks exactly like the engine oil filter but works differently by filtering constantly only a fraction of the massive oil flow instead of all which an engine filter does.
The font diff also has its own dipstick under the bonnet, the only transmission fluid needing a level check via rermover a filler/level plug is the rear diff.
Why did you do this Toyota, we like Toyotas because they are made to be maintained wherever one happens to be without needing workshop facilities, bring back the dipstick.
Wonder if the new revamped 70 series still has a dipstick?
