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It's a shame I can't get my neighbour and his Ferrari V12-swapped Jaguar to stay with you a few days - I think your neighbour (And possibly the whole street) will quickly no longer wish for any car to make a noise when it's started

Yes it will, it is omnidirectional designed not to be heard inside the car there are aftermarket AVAS systems, run over the neighbour - problem solved Google - SoundRacer Electric Vehicle Sound Module EVSMA

So after 3.5 months my car is being build! This is so much quicker than anticipated. Assuming it's getting quicker from now for productions.

Just beep the horn for 30 seconds every time 🤣

That's what I like about how it's set on mine - Hold to jump up in 5's to change target speed quickly, then click up or down a couple to refine it - I tend to set it to either 59mph if I'm on an eco run (I find the car switches between EV and ICE much more below 60mph) or 63mph if I'm not (Stops trucks from catching up!). If I was forced to have one or the other, single increments would win hands down tho', as you can always use the accelerator and brake to change speeds quickly, but refining the target speed with them is much trickier!

Acoustic Vehicle Alert System - where a hybrid or electric vehicle makes a sound when travelling at low speed to alert the visually impaired a vehicle is approaching - probably was not fitted to your C-HR. It is on later models. So, the answer is no.

Keen, the sports wear manufacturer, also make a range of trainers using recycled leather from car seats

https://www.gen-3glasscoat.com/shop Found it by magic after asking the question. Just incase anyone interested

I drive in Alps every spring and summer for about 2000 miles a year. I have Auris TS and know the behaviour of the car going uphill in the Alps. First, only fools driving 60mph uphill unless they have diesel with 400Nm torque or V6 hybrid like Lexus GS450h. Our 1.8L hybrid has higher torque at low speed from MG2, especielly from 0 to 10mph, higher than diesel. However the optimum torque per rpm ratio is around 40mph, right at the border of ECO and Power at the tachometer. If we floor it to the max Power level, it accelerate well for short burst until the hybrid battery is at low level. We need Torque for climbing, not Horse Power alone. Any Turbo charge car has very nice high flat torque from 1500 rpm to 4000 rpm, and that's why turbo engine works better on towing and uphill. Meanwhile in hybrid cars the torque is like a roller coaster. The MG2 torque is very high at 0 rpm and going down until about 1000 rpm on ICE. It start climbing again at around 1500 rpm but not reaching the level of Turbo engine. If you lug the engine right at the middle of the Power level on the tachometer, it is not optimum and the mixture of rich gasoline can be smell once the car stop. The catalytic converter works really hard from the unburned fuel, it smell like melting aspalt. I know it at the very first time climbing some hills on the Black forest during winter at about 50mph. I prefer climb at speed 35-40mph and keep our sanity. There is no need to climb fast anyway if we still want 4.5-5L /100 km in total climb up and go down. I don't mind if a 1.0L TSI car pass me, because physically, this is the down side of naturally aspirated engine with Atkinson cycle (opposite of Turbo). However, in flat road, the HP and passing capability is better than any 1.4TSI engine. The towing capacity in Auris and Corolla 1.8L is only at 750 Kg. The 2.0 L engine is more powerful and have much higher torque than 1.8L. If you want a better car with higher torque, get plug-in hybrid with much bigger battery like Prius Prime, RAV4 Prime, or with larger engine like RAV4 or Camry.

I know it is off topic, but that reminds me of the time I first went to hospital about my prostate. I thought to myself "this waiting room is full of old men .... oh!).

This is one of the things that makes 'Smart' motorways so dangerous - I've written to Highways to tell them to NOT set speed limits below 60 unless there is an actual jam or accident ahead, but they still insist on using 50 and 40mph limits for 'traffic calming', which just creates a massive accident potential as almost all the truck drivers ignore the limits and keep travelling at their maximum limited speed (i.e. 56-60mph) because they can see ahead that the road is free and they know where the working speed cameras are (Or don't care?). That triggers a situation where they are undertaking everyone in lane 1 with a 20mph differential, until someone who is obeying the 40 limit manages to get into lane 1, then the trucks all try to pull into lanes 2 or 3. And that's not counting the panic brakers who slam on the brakes if the gantry suddenly changes to 40mph. (Very fun when a truck is pulling out into the back of them to get past people doing 50!) At the very least Highways should use soft limits first (i.e. limits without the red circle) as an advisory to prepare drivers for harder limits later if there is an actual jam (Half the time there isn't), but they really don't seem to give a smeg and just feed me boiler plate replies. It's pretty clear the people that decide policy for these things do not use the roads that they affect...

Mentioning trucks catching up .... I've never had so many overtake me on 50mph zones on the motorway, and that's when I'm doing gps 50mph, which shows as 54mph on the speedo. I realise trucks have accurate speedo's (which would explain them over taking if I was doing 50 on the speedo) but they must be relying on ACPO as well.

Saw this and thought it was interesting - not my words, but copied and pasted ========================== We’ve all got our bins and bags, which we dutifully fill with paper, glass, metal, and whatever else the council are prepared to pick up. But this week I came across a material that I’d never even really considered before, let alone realised could be recycled: Airbags. Turns out that during the airbag production process, there are quite a few nylon offcuts, and thankfully, rather than letting them go to waste, use is now being made of them. Sportswear brand Asics has announced that they’re teaming up with Toyota Gosei to create a brand new trainer made from leftover airbag fabric, as well as some offcuts from leather steering wheels too. Toyota Gosei have already been using the offcuts to make bags and pencil cases, but the partnership with Asics will likely make it much easier for them to save much more nylon from the scrapheap, which is good news all round. The full story can be found here https://www.topgear.com/car-news/weird/these-asics-trainers-are-made-out-old-car-airbags?inf_contact_key=133bc89cb08805f85756250313843407680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1

You're probably right, but I do wish they'd do something - Something simple like what Kia/Hyundai did maybe, as it's not a new problem and while rare in the grand scheme of things, it's common enough that I'm surprised they've continued to ignore it! For sure it won't happen in any current model, but I'm hoping they think up a clever solution and roll it out to all future models.

It's just a little hard with no way to level the playing field. Someone coasting downhill for a long time and stopping there sure is gonna look good for mpg and EV time 😄

@Big_D Bob, There are two factors here. You have the car a 5-6 hour run shortly after you bought it. That brought a new battery to full capacity. Then you regularly drive 6-15 miles. This is not the right way to consider it. This could be 12-30 minutes, 6-15 minutes, or even 24-60 minutes. Enough 30 minute bites is probably fine. If your traffic is heavy and your speed lower, that is better.

The 2.0 Corolla is a big step up over a 1.8 Auris (I made the swap after a brief stint in a 2010 Auris Hybrid. The 2.0 Corolla has turbo-like torque, particularly when the traction battery is well charged.

Accoustic Vehicle Alert system became compulsory for new Type Approvals from 1st Jul 2019, and for all new vehicles from 1st July 2021. Not designed to be heard within the vehicle so you may not notice it from inside.

Yaris Cross, MY21, hold and it jumps in steps of 5. Press and it goes in ones. Perfect.

TBH it's not much different in any low-power petrol car - The first time I went up a fast hill in my Mk2, I was in 6th and it was pretty obvious the 1.33L VVTi would not be able to maintain speed, but I was still used to my Mk1 D4D and its wide large torque band, and made that classic mistake of dropping to 5th, only to find the car had lost so much speed it was going too slow for 5th, so had to drop to 4th, but in doing so lost too much speed for 4th! By then I'd figured what would happen next so skipped 3rd entirely and did a block change to 2nd instead. Engine was really revving at that point but I pushed it until it was well into 3rd gear territory before shifting to 3rd, and slowly building the speed back up. The moral of the story is don't be afraid to rev the engine (albeit only once it's at operating temperature, and not before!!) - If your engine redlines at 7000rpm, it's fine to rev it up to 7000rpm. It'll not feel good if you're not used to it, but it's built for it so don't worry, otherwise they would have set the redline lower. With automatics, esp. CVT-type boxes, just floor it until you get to the speed you want and then back off enough to hold that speed and let the computer sort it out. It's something I had to get back used to when I had the Mk2, as with the Mk1 D4D I never had to go above 3000rpm ever because the engine had so much mid-range torque, so going 4k+ felt like I was murdering the engine, but you can't drive a petrol engine at low RPM in high load situations as they're not designed for it, and I'd have to push that 1.33 up to 6000rpm sometimes, albeit briefly, to get it to move!

It become compulsory for hybrid or electric vehicles registered from 1 July 2021 onwards to be fitted with it, and most registered before that date don't have it. Neither our 2018 or 2020 hybrids do.

The different modes are only for the driver to sense different car response but when in cruise control there won’t be any difference. 👍

Ordered a replacement for my current excel in early February, got a message from Toyota around March that a replacement (excel with pan roof) order has been made. Went into production late May.

Had a call from the dealer yesterday,they get it next week and we should be able to pick it up on Friday next week. Excel with adventure pack (front mudguards missing, discussion to be had), ordered late March 23.

Had a Cross Excel on order, ordered in early March, but the delivery had slipped to predicted late August and that was a long time to wait. Cancelled the order, and bought a 12 month old premiere variant with 4k miles on the clock. Happy with that in the end, even if I'd have liked new.

And then once the motorway returns to 70mph all those trucks are still trapped in lanes 2 and 3 and causing chaos

There are other brands that do including Lexus 🤷‍♂️

Top speed 55mph. Range 62 miles. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12155161/Brits-drive-new-Swedish-flat-pack-e-vehicle-costs-8-700.html https://www.luvly.se/

You're right about the radar cruise accelerating and braking too hard. I've found that using the speed limiter gives better economy, as you can keep 'flipping' the car into EV mode by momentarily lifting off the pedal, and you can drive more smoothly than radar cruise. I managed to get it up to 112 mpg on a short trip around Market Bosworth, with 79% EV time. This is a good game! Does anyone know what the record is for the Yaris Cross Icon? Toyota could run an anonymous score table, which would encourage economy driving.

https://www.roofbox.co.uk/scripts/rbvehsel4_tab.php/roofbars/cruz_optiplus_120cm_roof_bars_2_no_st_120_921_310_/Qx%40w%2C6M4gNax5vN1Yv0vegd3uHKQGm5zlD5A2eVA.9LRNf3Gnee%2CX}2R3HCrdUuL1 https://www.roofbox.co.uk/scripts/rbvehsel4_tab.php/roofbars/cruz_airo_118cm_silver_aluminium_bars_2_no_airot_118_924_773_/Qx%40w%2C6M4gNax5vN1Yv0vegd3uHKQGm5zlD5A2eVA.9LRNf1xAiY2sK%40t.GV.T9j%2Cc

Yeah this is how they should make it on all of them - Intuitive, makes sense and works well!

On most of the current models you either have to go through the Dashboad settings menu to turn it off, or hold down the LKA button (Looks like 2 parallel dashed lines with a car driving diagonally across one of them) for something like 3-5 seconds. Pressing it briefly turns it all on again, or if it's already on toggles between the LKA (Gently-try-to-stay-within-lane-lines) and LTA (Cruise control auto-steering).

Just a short one, how much are you guys paying in tax for a 2.4 estima non hybrid. Silly question I know

Thank you for the reply

Thanks . Always good to know 👍

CVT's get a bad name due to the French manufactures penny-pinching, the Jatco and Nissan/Renault debacle of their CVT's grenading at anything over 30k miles when they let go they destroy themselves, no shop will even rebuild them

I did this just last year when the passenger side regulator went. It is rather tricky to do on your own for the first time, I ended up getting some help from my father in-law and it went a bit easier. The hardest part at first was getting the card panel away from the door and then figuring out how to do certain things like detach the old one from the window and then reattaching. quite fiddly.

Thanks for the suggestions. Problem solved ~ and I am so embarrassed. I didn't realise that there is a lock slider on the back of the seat. 🙄 (For security, the seats can be locked so that the boot can't be accessed if someone broke into the car.) I have been shifting loads of stuff recently and something must have caught on the switch and locked the seat. If nothing else, hopefully this experience will help someone else! Mike

Traditional cruise ( press and hold cruise button until symbol changes ) can do 1 mph increments, Radar cruise can only do 5mph increments, this was fixed with the newer 23 model year Corolla with its more advanced sensors

At the last renewal (December 22), our insurance premium increased by £42 (12%) with our current insurer - nowhere near £200-500. Not bad considering inflation then was around 10.7%, and the current high levels of inflation will be part of the reason for higher premiums. Before the legislation stopping insurers giving introductory discounts for new customers came into force in January 2022, these introductory discounts were usually financed by the premiums charged to existing customers. So perhaps the non-discounted premiums are more relative to the true cost of insurance. As I said previously, the high quotes could also be due to you being outside the customer groups those insurers wish to do business with. High quotes are an easy way to discourage customers they don't want. Bear in mind that at least one well known comparison site is owned by an insurance group so not exactly impartial, and two of the main comparison sites are owned by the one company.

Mojo1010 is correct. There is no autolock feature. The car can be manually locked by using the button on the driver door near the window controls. Not the answer you were looking for, but perhaps another option to consider rather than having to buy something extra

. Mike, indeed but many are not. When browsing the Toyota website I found an item that led me to typical car journeys for my chosen model. These were typical such as a work commute, city travel, a cross country journey. In fact they were not typical journeys but actual live journeys by other customers at that time of year. Not sure if that is still true but you did give permission. You don't like it, then do as you say. BTW, do you have a dash cam?

Are they poppers or just trim caps, pop one of the trim caps out and see what you can find, or get 4 trim caps and drill them, so they can be stitched on like a button Edit. search for "Brass press stud", 15 mm would seem around the right size as a guess if not 12.5 mm https://www.toyota-tech.eu/aimuploads/{692672FD-5FA9-FCC7-FE57-196E92DF5FA9}/IQ_Glove_box_RHD_08471_74850_AIM_001_416_1.pdf Just found these images

Become an OAP and drive only on minor roads at 42mph like me!

Our order is with the dealer now but still 1-2 weeks for paper work, registration etc so would vary depending on your dealer too. Not long now though! 🥳

That is not my understanding as the Relax scheme will also cover vehicles (subject to age/mileage) that have been serviced outwith Toyota dealers once they have had a service at a Toyota dealer (caveat is that they won't cover an existing fault so you can't get it serviced at an independent & then if it develops a fault take it to a Toyota dealer for a warranty repair under Relax ). In theory afaik, if you so wished, you could dip in & out of the scheme (although imo that would negate the advantages/point of the scheme).

Toyota Roadside Assistance is £72pa by DD ... 😉 "Recovery to any destination in the UK or Recommended Toyota Centre" https://www.toyota.co.uk/owners/roadside-assistance/

I had my Prius intermediate service done late June 2021 and the price charged was the same as previous. Toyota dealers are independent, so, check with another dealer and you could find they charge differently. You said your dealer told you the price rise was due to RELAX. They would say that, takes the blame away.

A single bad experience of using higher octane fuel isn't the best to use as an example. Generally higher octane premium fuel such as V-Power, Ultimate, Momentum, etc have better additive packages than standard fuel - so should help keep the engine cleaner. I use premium fuel when we're going on holiday which usually means 300 miles of motorway driving, plus on the odd occasion I use supermarket fuels, I use premium rather than standard. Not interested in whether or not it gives better economy. Also in the UK, from September standard fuel will be E10 and premium will remain at E5. For those who want better economy, the premium E5 should give slightly better economy than the E10. Previously on these forums, some owners who regularly use premium fuel think their cars do run better. Subjective - possibly - but at the end of the day use whichever fuel you want to, there are no rights or wrongs in this.

Ok, so I had to go solo on this; no instructions or You Tube help. New part from Eurocarparts was a slightly different design, but fitting was quite straightforward. A lot cheaper that from Mr T (£304 for parts alone) and took about an hour, all told. Once door card off, plastic sheet peeled back, window detached and old parts un-bolted, it was just a case of transplanting the motor (3 screws) and fitting new part using same mounting points. Had to reprogram the control (hold up button for 5 seconds once shut, then hold down button for 4 seconds once down). Now all is well and functioning again. Job done!