To replace your spark plugs on a 2006 Forerunner, ...

To replace your spark plugs on a 2006 Forerunner, which costs $32 in parts, will cost you $130 in labor. I dealt with Raphael in Service today. After receiving and paying for the invoice, I called Raphael for an explanation. According to him, the pricing depends on whatever Toyota has stipulated the standard time of repair to be. This job, which normally takes no longer than 30 minutes at the most will costs you a little over an hour in labor at $118 per hour. I wish I had known this.

I don't know if I will ever consider Toyota again for maintenance. We have purchased 3 cars from them in the past and sale experience has been great, but service is unreasonably overpriced and from this experience, it seems that the service staff do not disclose all of the pertinent information/costs until invoice time.