2016 Brake Fluid Flush w/o Techstream?

Ideally you want to leave the level as you found it.

The car rolled off the factory floor with new brake pads, and the level at the full line. As the pads wear the pistons move out, and level drops. It tends to be near the low line when the pads are near the service limit (1mm).

There's no harm in topping it up to full line, but down the road if putting new pads in, when you push the pistons back (to clear new pads), you'll need to keep an eye on the reservoir, it might overflow.

 

Dang, sorry to hear about the brake and dealer problems....I'd be mad, too!

I got involved in my own brakes around 2002 when I took a hand-me-down car my Father-in-law gave to us (92 Subaru) to a local Brakes Plus to fix the squeaky brakes. Idiots charged me, probably, 3 times too much and I had to take it back a number of times because they left air in the brakes and it would pull hard when using them. I worked with a guy who did his own and he taught me when he did my Tacoma...it's really not that difficult and, now, there are tons of folks on YouTube who teach so many car repairs. The hardest part about car repair is when things go wonky and you encounter problems you've never seen before. (Like a bolt that breaks or something so rusty you can't get it out, etc.) It's good have friends you can call when you get in a pinch!