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I know it’ll get stuck in your craw but I fully endorse ULEZ and getting shut of polluting vehicles. It’s time they nationalised it and did away with manual gearboxes.

I was annoyed by this to start with and realised my phone was not properly set up to be recognised - the car will not ask you again to tick anything if it can tell (from phone, or I think from the key being assigned to a personal profile), that you are the same person who ticked it already. If the phone / key is not properly linked to a driver profile it assumes you are a new / guest driver using the car the first time and wants you to confirm you agreements.

Does the problem only occur in certain places or everywhere? I've been noticing there seems to be a weird phenomenon lately where some radio frequencies seem to get randomly jammed/interference in random areas, randomly. A neighbour had it with the keyless system on their car, colleagues have also had similar with their remote fobs or keyless, and apparently some people have had issues arming/disarming their house alarms with remote fobs. We've even had a few others post about similar things recently. It's really weird...! Had lots of theories from solar flares and russian hypno brain rays to pirate radio stations, faulty phone masts etc. but no real concrete evidence or leads...

It's a pain in the proverbial but if you are sufficiently patient/perseverant/bloody-minded you can get through to the DVLA, and possibly Police, to de-register the car from your property, and they can also tag the car which will flag it up on the Police ANPR for some extra schadenfreude

As of today our 2016 Auris Hybrid can no longer be locked or unlocked by touching the handle (on either the driver or passenger door). Pressing the button on the fob will lock and unlock it. The problem exists with both keyfobs. Any idea what the problem might be, and how to fix it?

We bought this place when the previous occupant died. They obviously had a car, because we get numerous letters addressed to the previous occupant from councils, TFL, DART charge, debt collectors and have had bailiffs knocking for the last three years. The old car's taxed insured and MOT'd, but the current owner has obviously cottoned on to the fact that as long as they don't re-register it, they can do what they like.

That's the irony of the whole thing - The ULEZ is supposed to reduce emissions, but by making people buy new cars unnecessarily it's overall done the opposite, and a lot of people have jumped to brand new cars, which are even worse for the environment, to try and avoid getting caught out when the goal posts get moved again, like all us poor saps who got tricked into buying 'clean diesel' "for the environment". Still, my Mk4 will hopefully fend him off for a bit longer - They'll have to get through all the remaining non-hybrid diesel and petrol folk first!

So it's that "death and taxes" thing again.

I would have liked that as an option - I think they should just produce one body type instead of two (i.e. the current pano-roof/no-pano-roof) and if you don't want the pano roof stick a solar panel where the pano roof would have gone! You can get very cheap low efficiency solar panels that are literally printed onto a flexible polymer substrate so they are light and can even conform to the existing double-bubble shape of the non-pano roofs. It could charge the 12v and maybe even supply some power to the traction battery - While a solar panel on a roof the size of a Yaris' isn't going to output much power, when the traction battery is only 700Wh (0.7kWh!) capacity, it's a sizeable fraction! I'm surprised EVs don't have such things as standard, especially given how massive their footprints are - It'd be a drop in the bucket of their massive 70kWh batteries but free power is free power, and if you get stranded somewhere at least it'd be able to put in some power to get you going!

I thought I'd attach a picture of all the original wires going to the original unit: One more thing, my alpine unit has a handbrake lead, not sure what to wire into that, any pointers for that?

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They do the same where we are.

I hope Toyota just fit a solar panel or two to the roof problem solved unless you car in the garage or has a covering of snow.

So do I and I agree you can sometimes do better with new than nearly new. I’ve also see nearly new cars with horrendous damage turn up on a forecourt. Running new means you get the latest spec and you do elevate yourself back to higher residual value. No MOTs often no tyres or exhaust or other wearables for a few years. Cyker Scrooge thinks he’s going to live until he’s 110 but Khaaaan will already be planning his next tax on anything with even a hybrid engine so he’ll have to cough up eventually.

Installation Car Android Radio And Rearview Camera on Toyota

I am using solar panels for charging at the moment its free electric without any mains power lead running into the house. I am still in the process of setting it up it not a open the box item that ready to use.

The hybrid engines displacement is deceptive as they are Atkinson/Miller-cycle - Although it says 1.8, it feels closer to a 1.5 due to the difference in compression and expansion ratio caused by the Miller-cycle valve-timing (It expands the full 1.8L worth to extract as much energy as possible and increase efficiency, but doesn't compress 1.8L of fuel/air mix, so the torque and power is lower than in a normal Otto-cycle engine of the same displacement.). The cars will rev more if you're hoofing it as the pseudo-CVT system will optimize the revs for efficiency or power in a way no other 'gearbox' can do. It's not struggling or being damaged, it's just doing what you're telling it to do by responding to the accelerator immediately. It is something you need to get used to as normal gearboxes can't do this and you have to wait for the power to build which feels more natural to most people, esp. as you don't feel the torque building in the same way. Also most people are scared to rev out their engine to extract maximum performance and shift well before the red-line, but the hybrid system has no such qualms and will happily rev up to the maximum power RPM if told to via the accelerator pedal. The DynamicForce-branded engines (M20A in the Corolla and M15A in the Yaris) are better for feel, as if you really hammer them they switch into Otto-cycle mode - The fuel economy will drop to that of a normal ICE car but it'll haul like you'd expect a 2.0L NA engine to. I'm not like most hybrid owners as I don't drive for economy, but for fun and I've been very impressed as the car has incredibly rapid accelerator response (Very few cars can get away from the lights as fast as this one ), has respectable acceleration and very good handling, and while there are other cars that can do all of that better, they'd do it getting maybe half the mpg this one does - It's one of those rare cars where you can have your cake and eat it, so to speak

They know Chris but there are a lot of cars with no problems and the floodgates will open on those too. Have a read through the thread and you’ll find many a noble crusader that wants to tell Toyota a thing or two. You’ll end up going to a lot of effort for nothing and you might eventually get a new battery but at this stage, probably the same as the one you’ve got. It is actually in hand and they are working on it but the best thing you can do is spend £75 and 20 minutes sticking a new Yuasa battery under the back seat and be done with it. Your faith will be restored in what is actually a very good car.

I found getting the tracking done fixed it if was not the sensor.

The last person I gave a lift to was a young, pretty French girl backpacking in the Highlands. I considered warning her of the dangers but in the event I didn't. She had got where she had and obviously was dependent on hiking. I also hitch kicked recently (late 90s). My wife had run the car to empty and I didn't notice. I grabbed the empty can and prepared to leg it up the road when a car stopped and gave me a lift. I was a little miffed he didn't run me back 😀 but i soon got a little back. The police kindly guarded the car while i was away. I had rushed for the lift abd and left the car unlocked.

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I was driving a 300hp car which was no longer required, and was advised to get the 1.8 at the dealership as I fancied something a bit more economical for a change. I think the CVT gearbox doesn’t help the matter. 1.8 is a fairly decent sized engine in comparison to other vehicles these days it’s just surprising how little power they produce. another vehicle of interest is the CX60 plug in hybrid but with 320hp, I imagine it is quite different to a rav 4. appreciate the replies, thanks

No security device is going to be 100% effective - whether its an alarm, pedal box or steering wheel lock. The steering wheel lock I linked to has the same Sold Secure rating as Disklock, and aside from that Sold Secure properly test these devices, rather than go through a gimmicky Youtube video.