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Picked mine up today. First ever Toyota so I have nothing to compare it to but it is very nice so far and more than enough power for what I need

Sneaky peak 😉 Picked it up today. Sensible conversations were had with the sales manager about my experience and all appropriate apologies and understandings were given. So well done Jemca Croydon for making it right in the end

I wondered why the wife suddenly stopped talking to me…

Not that one!! That's the ejector seat!! 🙂

In my local authority area you can only park in a charging bay if 'the vehicle is designed to be driven by electricity' and the vehicle is being charged at the time. So I can park there in my hybrid if the engine is running 😃

Good one ☝️ Let us know how you find the new tyres. Also double check pressures tomorrow morning before driving off to make sure they are correctly set because no tyre filter ever do these right and every driver should check and adjust next day.

Every time I type in your name it is deleted by the spelling police

The best noise to make is a dripping sound for when it leaks 💧

My C-HR has 17 buttons on the steering wheel alone, most of which I never use. I bought the car on the basis that it satisfied me “as a normal car” - not a technological toy. I very rarely use the horn, to the extent that I sometimes give it a toot just to confirm it still works. The best design car horn control (I had one on a 1956 Hillman Minx) was the horn ring. If needed, all that was necessary was thumb movement anywhere around the steering wheel. Regarding driver ability with technology - mostly it is the young drivers who will handle it the easiest. But, unfortunately, that alone will not make them better or safer drivers. Much of a car’s technology, as far as the driver is concerned, is twofold. It introduces distracting “entertainment” that can reduce proper attention to the road and surrounding activity, and the actual driver aids can encourage over-dependency on these, rather than physically paying attention. One example is the door mirror warnings of passing traffic from the rear. I still constantly check all my rear view mirrors, which I believe is the only way to stay safe from the rear. Often, when I pass a stationary object (it could be a pillar box), the car will sound a warning and, if I am approaching a stationary car on my side of the road, and I wait until last minute to pull out (which may be due to a closely parked vehicle on the opposite side), the MFD turns red a shows BRAKE. So I treat my car as a dumb instrument, and use my driving experience and discipline to make it behave in a manner that all other road users expect of it. Simples!!!

Yes it’s there, mocking me, now I’ve found it I’ll always be wishing, wishing I could open the pan roof…the button that, when pressed, does nothing, anyone know the best noise to make of a pan roof opening, is it..hmmmmm, or bzzzzzt, I’ve got to sit there imagining opening the roof and letting the sunshine in…😢😭

But some drivers are naturally lazy, and will put over-reliance on these aids. As for driverless cars - which will nob truly “driverless” because a qualified driver will be behind the wheel a a legal requirement - but I predict a higher accident rate than the government and safety gurus would have us believe. Drivers of these cars will in many cases subconsciously demote themselves to “attendants”, and loose concentration. Then accidents will occur for two main reasons: (1) Regardless of technical progress, there will be times when the technology breaks down, either due to a system failure, a manufacturing fault or improper maintenance procedure. (2) Another road user, possibly driving a conventional vehicle, making a mistake in which a “driverless car” cannot by itself prevent a collision. In both scenarios, the resultant collision will be compounded by the Driver of the “driverless car” losing concentration and over-relying on the car to sort things out.

I've got the new tyres on now. I'm not sure I notice much difference in ride from my previous tyres to be honest. Comfortable enough though. But they just had a big test. Literally half a mile after leaving the wheel tracking centre, some stupid van driver turning right from the other side of the road, turned right across me forcing me to slam the brakes on. I really thought there was going to be a collision. Fortunately there was a gap to the left that I was able to steer away from the van and no harm was done. I suppose lesser tyres might not have been able to respond as well. That's the second van in two days that's nearly hit me. The other one was a Merc van on the north circular that cut into my lane nearly taking my door and right wing with it. So many idiots on the road.

Mind you, we oldies can quickly adapt to new technology. Not long after getting my Corolla I had a loan Yaris. After my first stop I tried to restart it. I found the ignition keyway and turned the key. Lots of lights but the car didn't start. I rang the garage who talked me through the procedure: insert key, press brake, turn key, select reverse, apply gas. Of course I had done all that up to turn key. It never occurred to me that I would not HEAR the engine.

And you thought you had gone deaf!

Right, that was easy enough. Got a new locking nut and just four new nuts from Toyota as the parts man reckoned the others are ok. Only £38. He also said the receiving sockets for the locking nut are fine. Now I can go and get my tyres put on!

Very nice car 🚙👌

Not normally a fan of two tone paintwork but I must say the blue/black combination looks really good.

Looks a lovely car ***** safe motoring.

Looks awesome! Enjoy!

Thanks. Needs jet washing again if you have a spare afternoon 😉

Very nice like the block paving too looks a posh road

Excellent result in the end then!😁

Is that the sound of the pan roof opening…?

Yes, but I’ve found a button, A BUTTON!! all buttons and switches that are fitted must be operational it’s the law, isn’t it, ?

It’s not like you didn’t know it wouldn’t open.

Hi every one, been reading stuff on this site for a while but this is my first post. Had a C-HR 1.8 Excell in Decuma Grey for past three years and loved it but decide to upgrade to the new C-HR, Could run to the Excell this time at nearly £40k so went for the 1.8 Design in Decuma Grey again with the pan roof, love this colour and where we live the farmers love to spread the roads with mud so a good colour for not having to wash too often. Only had the car for a few days but thought I would give some initial impressions, overall very happy with the new car and like the new shape. Initial thoughts:- New 2024 C-HR 1.8 Design Decuma Grey, Pan Roof Like Quieter on the road Less noise when accelerating More responsive, quicker than previous model Ride and road-holding as good as previous model Drivers multi information screen Overall looks Powered tailgate Dislike Infotainment 12 inch screen wasted, no multifunction displays Small indicators front and rear Bottom of doors not sealed from road muck Door handles look a little flimsy, only open from underside Doors do not self lock when driving Cannot open the glove-box unless passenger seat is pushed fully back I Am Missing Cruise control stalk (can’t believe it but I sort of got used to it) Rear wiper when it’s been sat in the rain

Which is why we have aircon ...

Good afternoon, everyone! My name is Asen and I own a 2015 Toyota Aygo, which recently just hit 150k miles. I have had it from almost brand new and for 6 years, and have used it for work mainly, doing 80-100 mile trips on a daily basis. It has never ever been to the garage for anything else than tyres, breaks, pads and servicing, not even once. Never had any advisories on MOT or services either, it has just been absolutely rock solid. I am relocating to my home country soon and I have already sent my luggage, but I need to travel by road, because i have a couple of parrots and flying them is extortionately expensive, so i intend to go with my beloved car. It will be just me and my birds, so will not be loaded or heavy, but I am a bit concerned about the distance, age and mileage. I have just replaced all tyres and brakes. I will fully service it before I go and get European breakdown cover. I will try to get the best one there is out there, so i am covered properly in the event of breakdowns. I intend to drive around 300-400 miles, before i take a couple of hours break, to try to prevent overheating, with 5-6 hours of sleep during the night, meaning that I should get there in around 3 days. I would really like to hear your opinion about my plan and I would like you to be honest about it. People around me have been telling me that the car would never make it, because the engine is too small and the distance is big, but I would like to think that I know my car better than them. I know that you can not predict anything like this, but do you think that I am being naive or stupid, as I have been called by some of them? Looking forward to hear your opinions and thank you in advance.

Having a recent discussion with a work colleague about cars, it all started when another colleague was going to look at a second hand Audi e tron, I said that everything was controlled through the touchscreen and to make sure she could be comfortable with this, ( she wasn’t and ended up buying a RR evoke, ,,!!) , anyway, talking to the other person about how distracting it would be , she said that younger people would be able to cope with this as they are so comfortable with todays tech and would do it without thinking, I still said it’s distracting and potentially dangerous, so much so, that car manufacturers are reverting back to physical controls for heating ect, even thatcham are getting involved with talk of awarding safety stars for companies that have separate buttons for some controls with cars losing marks if they don’t…but my work colleague was convinced that the younger generations would be able to operate things through the touchscreens…is she right..?

It's the same silliness as wheel rim sizes - Always selling bigger ones as a 'feature' as if that's a good thing - I would not be surprised when they're boasting about 37" touch screens in the future despite how ridiculous that would be

3) You don't have to make your mind up or worry about mistakes because it's super cheap to change or fix the UI. Shorter development times. It's a win-win-win. Not only that - the fact that interfaces are software driven (this includes hard buttons) means they (the manufacturers) can collect user telemetry from all vehicles. Which they can later mine for intelligence to improve user experience and... sell on to third parties for monies. win-win-win-win-kaaching! 🏆 💰 Agreed Cyker, there are a million reasons screens and software drives how vehicles are controlled these days. I'm a little surprised the bling-factor of screens has not worn off more by now. I remember getting my E12 Corolla with the big DVD satnav back in 2002 - at that time it was cool. Nowadays, meh, it's a bit of a con 🫤

The regulations don't make it clear that the vehicle can only be propelled by electricity to the exclusion of any other fuel, and it doesn't say that it has to be being charged using the charging point provided.

Great result, and unexpectedly competent from Jemca! 34psi won't do any harm; Under normal use they'd heat up to that sort of pressure pretty quickly anyway. Might mean the ride is a bit harder but unlikely to adversely affect even tyre wear.

Sorry but that's untrue - Case in point: I have a 256GB SD card for my dashcam which is formatted to FAT32; FAT32 can actually go up to 2TB IIRC, but Microsoft deliberately hamstrung it in, I think Windows XP or Vista onwards, because they were trying to make interoperability between operating systems as awkward as possible, and FAT32 was the most common filesystem for all OS. Windows 2000 down to Win95, and any other non-Windows OS (e.g. Linux) that supports FAT32 can format it up to 2TB; It's only (Ironically) later versions of Windows that can't do it natively. However, there are many utilities for Windows to get around this and allow formatting larger volumes than 32GB. I find limits like that are usually software-based; Either the developers were being lazy or used rubbish drivers; I have a lot of stuff that's only rated for 32GB or 64GB because that was the biggest SD card or USB stick available when they were made, but they seem to work fine even with 512GB cards. Usually, if you use a bigger card/stick, it'll be able to use it but just won't be able to use its full capacity - e.g. If you use a 256GB USB stick and it only supports 32GB then it'll only format it up to 32GB. However, there are also some limitations with specific hardware - e.g. With SD cards, there are 3 types - SD, SDHC and SDXC; SD is limited to 2GB (Or 4GB with some bodges), SDHC is limited to 32GB and SDXC is limited to 2TB, and sadly these are actual hardware limits due to repeated shortsightedness of whoever wrote the specs originally, so if the device ONLY supports SDHC then it'll not work with a higher-capacity SDXC card.

My first hybrid was a hire car - I had that too - turned key etc but no engine sound. After several attempts at this the engine came on. I was in a hurry otherwise I'd have raged at the hire company for giving me a dodgy car. Then it dawned on me....

Thanks Tony, I'll do that. I spoke to the fitter this morning and asked him what pressure he'll be putting in and he said 34psi. I told him the manual says 32psi but he said 34 is fine and given that I only do about 8000 miles a year and regularly load drums that 34 is good. Would you agree with that? Also, I'm thinking of buying a digital tyre pressure inflator, one that is wireless and doesn't need to be connected to the 12v socket for ease and quickness of use. Wondering if you can recommend one?

Unless you've been rocking a SEAT (Cupra) Leon from 2017, there's little chance of being disappointed in straight line acceleration/speed or overtaking ability, and even then the difference is 4.9 vs 5.8s to 60mph, not that that matters a great deal in most driving scenarios. Obviously a lower slung car would be more dynamic through the turns, but for a ~2 ton brick on wheels it ain't bad. The Rav phev is brilliant for 0-30mph acceleration in pure EV mode (eg off the lights or around town), strong in 30-70 in EV, rapid 30-70 in HEV (motorway on ramp). Very strong 50-70+ in HEV for overtaking, but this is perhaps it's one Achilles heel in EV only mode, as the grunt from the electric motors can seem to flatten off slightly at times in those scenarios (more like 60-80 tbh) - acceleration is still instant, as in there's no waiting for a gearbox to kickdown, but the car will want to stay in EV mode all the way up to 84mph unless you tell it to use the ICE. Tho handily that is very easy - a physical button next to the gear lever. In real world driving, it is an incredible machine, especially when you factor in the strong real world ev range.

In a word there is nothing much to worry about. The only issue I personally have had is moonroof faults however that is the exception. I too was new to Toyota after decades of mostly VAG brands. The main criticism is some scratchy plastics in the boot and rear passenger compartment and ergonomics are a bit haphazard. Otherwise the economy is superb, the seats incredibly comfortable on very long journeys and for a 2 tonne SUV the handling pretty good.

Presume a Toyota dealer will have to order in. However, may be worth asking whether they have a master key to undo the locking nuts until you can order a replacement key.

When all else has failed try the old standby ABRACADABRA, its supposed to work every time.

There are any number of possibilities: You were just lucky - a new battery fully charged will survive longer than an older partially charged one. The electronics in later models may consume less power on standby than earlier ones. You stored the car in a garage unlocked - the power consumed by a security system will be greater when the car is locked and the security system is active. Just possibilities ... we probably can't know for sure why yours survived for so long, but I doubt that you are complaining about it ... 😉

The problem isn't wiring the headlights with can, but that there is little protection agains tampering, and that it is one CAN network both for security/essential components as it is for say headlights. That plus there is no encryption in place to verify the authenticity of the commands ( even if it is just the security commands )

I think this is the line they would be looking at, the cost of the item is also taken into account so you could expect something costing as much as a RAV4 does to have proportionate quality security. Also Toyota have kind of shot their own foot by on later models changing the CAN bus to a secure protocol and also announcing these cars need extra security hardware, they are in effect admitting the security performance for the affected models was sub standard. This may even be why they have proactively initiated the program to design and release extra security measures for vulnerable models, in preparation for legal action, if they can fix the vehicles to 'merchantable quality' it may be cheaper for them by defusing costly compensation claims.

Hi Alan, I would sit quietly in the car and close your eyes and chant Om for about 10 minutes and await spiritual intervention.

Personally, with that mileage and previous use I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. Injectors, pumps, gaskets, bearings etc., will all be way past their best and likely need replacing soon. Its cheap for a reason. If your annual mileage is low, get a straightforward simple petrol, like a Yaris which are far, far less complex to maintain and repair than a TD, plus they have a lot less to go wrong. My opinion.

You lose the benefit of automatic air conditioning if you turn it off. Mine never ever gets turned off, it’s left to run as it should.

It is bad enough having a touch screen on my car radio. Technology in cars rarely improves anything in terms of safety and even if it is supposed to be safer humans absorb it by not concentrating as hard so you are back at square one apart from more things to malfunction. A classic example is dimming interior lights. The traditional way is a bulb and a switch but now they have a microprocessor and some software and ten times as many wires and connections just to make it come on and go out with increasing / reducing brightness.

No. Age does not change fundamental ergonomics. Pressing a big, physical button is always easier than selecting an option buried two submenus down in a touch screen user interface. Why do they not move the horn button from the steering wheel to the touch screen? Would be a heck of a lot cheaper.

No problems with Apple Music and CarPlay. I believe if you leave the music running when you turn the car off, it may play again automatically after the next start but that’s what it’s designed to do. when you turn the car off, the music on your phone automatically pauses so it’s not running all the time if you leave it.

Well chaps, after much deliberation over the Avon, Dunlop and Goodyear, I thought I'd stretch my budget and I just bought 4 x Goodyear Efficientgrip Performance 2 tyres. 🙂 I liked the B and A rating for fuel and wetgrip and the very good reviews on it. Best deal I found was National Tyres/Halfords with their 15% discount, so I paid £321.37. I added front wheel tracking for £44.99 since I recently bumped the car over a kerb and it tends to veer left a little. Booked to be fitted on Monday morning.