Jump to content

brickpaver

Regular Member
  • Posts

    69
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Profile Information

  • Gender*
    Male
  • Toyota Model
    2018 Rav4 and 2000 Corolla.
  • Toyota Year
    2021
  • Location
    South Australia

Contact Methods

  • First Name
    Lance

Recent Profile Visitors

15,239 profile views

brickpaver's Achievements

Community Regular

Community Regular (8/14)

  • First Post
  • Collaborator
  • Conversation Starter
  • Week One Done
  • One Month Later

Recent Badges

0

Reputation

  1. Herb,,..you've hit on exactly the way that I would initially have done it myself but I've been somewhat afraid and warned of damaging the computer ( apparently a very expensive repair/ replacement should it be damaged by being wired incorrectly)...particularly this 'Canbus' unit. It would seem that Toyota severely discourage anyone interfering with their intricate wiring looms, especially with anything that goes through the computer. Definitely no criticism intended here because I would have done just about the very same procedure as that that you mentioned ,.....until I got the same info from several sources, warning me of the consequences around this Canbus unit,..which I had NEVER heard of before. I've wired up many many spotlights on to all my cars over past decades,..lights relay and switch,..hooked to the high beam feed off of the headlight high beam wire and all worked perfectly but of course all of those were easy,... being all negative earth vehicles.....but this Rav4 Is supposedly a different kettle of kippers as far as the wiring loom is concerned. I guess I'm hoping to find someone with a 2018 Rav who has fitted spotties and could walk me through it. 😀 i do appreciate your reply though. Lance S
  2. I have two LED spotlights mounted to a nudge bar on my 2018 Rav4 but Im getting a variety of mixed information on how to get them connected through a separate switch in with my high beam. I'm getting a variety of comments,..including.....What is a Canbus unit,.. I need a 'Canbus' unit,......I need to BUY a Canbus unit,....the Rav already HAS a Canbus unit,....the Rav DOESNT have a Canbus unit.?....They must go through a Canbus unit or it could blow the 'on board computer'.. etc, etc, .. Definitely inferring that it is NOT a simple exercise to carry out. Checking with auto electricians,..its been impossible so far to find one confident enough to tackle it,..for fear of damaging the on board computer. ........which is perhaps WHY the one who DID say that he could wire it up (I already have the lights fitted, the switch is fitted and already connected up as a direct separate negative earth through its own separate fuse,.......which of course is illegal.)...said that it woukd cost me $800 to $900 ,...which absolutely tells me that he doesn't want to do it because those numbers are ridiculous. I just want to have my lights connected up correctly by someone who knows his to do it,.......which could be ME, if I have an accurate diagram............Google was hopeless. Thanks in advance....... Lance.S
  3. Can anyone tell me how to wire up spotlights through a switch connected to the RAV high beam. I've been told and read several that tell me that because of a particular new wiring loom in the Rav and possibly a computer chip, etc, along with the Rav having a special type of globe,...it MAY be almost impossible to wire up the spotlights and the required separate switch without possibly damaging something. Im driving over to WA in 3 weeks time and really do need a pair of affective spotlights. Lance S.
  4. I'm buying a new phone and I looked at a new 2021 $850 Samsung. Most of the youtube reviews gave the model high praise but when I read 10 retail store users reviews, eight of those ten users were severely critical of the model, with heating and dropping out being among their complaints..............enough to send me straight back to buying an iphone again.
  5. Can anyone supply or tell me where I can find instructions or diagram on pairing the factory radio in my 2011 hilux. I have googled it so many times and for some reason can never get the actual directions for my model. Mine is the SR,..nothing out of the ordinary yet I can find every other Bluetooth instructions on Google except mine. I can Bluetooth my iphone music library okay but the phone receive calls will now NOT connect,....like it used to do, up until 6 months ago. Thanks in advance Lance. S.
  6. I had a similar problem with my older 2000 Hilux ute at around 150,000 k's several years ago,..started up well but inside a couple of minutes the accelerator pedal was struggling to respond with any power at all. Took it to my local Toyota dealer workshop,......turned out to be a faulty knock sensor, which was replaced with a new sensor and bingo,.....good as gold again and still driving perfectly when I sold the ute af 260,000 k's. Cheers Lance S.
  7. I have the 2011 V6 Hilux which I bought in Nov 2016 with 74,000 klm's on it and have just now hit 171,000 klm's, including four effortless return trips between Adelaide, Kalgoorlie and Perth. The one thing to consider, with petrol prices currently on a huge rise at present, is that while the V6 is definitely a very gutsy engine, it can also be a bit thirsty if pushed too hard with around town usage being about 21 - 22 mpg.. (I still talk in mpg)...up to my best being just 26 - 27 mpg at a comfortable and constant cruising speed of 95-105 kph across the Eyre Highway. I religiously keep up my regular 6 month or 10,000 K service schedule and there has been no mechanical issues whatsoever, ......nor do I expect any issues in to the future,...in fact it really does still drive and feel like a new car, with one of the most smoothest automatic gearboxes I have EVER driven,.....and I've been driving for 62 years. If you can get past the fuel consumption cost, you'll have a very good and near bulletproof ute. Cheers ......Lance S.
  8. I have the very same erratic problem with my 2011 Bluetooth unit. Everything used to work,..Bluetooth with my music list straight through the cars audio system, I could send and receive all phone calls on hands free, the scrolling worked,......then almost without warning, my send and receive calls refused to work and I have erratic success with my music working when it feels like it. I have un paired,..re paired,...un paired again,..paired again,...turned the whole thing off and on so many times that my finger hurts........yet it STILL wont work properly. Lance S.
  9. I have a 2011 Hilux dual cab with the standard cd radio with Bluetooth but for some reason a couple of the bluetooth features have stopped working,.......the phone won't 'pick up', which means I can't answer any calls and on the odd time that I can get my iphone music library to actually play through the car audio system,..the mp3 details,..the artist or song title won't show. Every Bluetooth feature used to work but now despite my forever having to try and re- 'pair' the phone to the vehicle....the best I can achieve is my iphone song list playing,.....SOMEtimes. My question then is,...will a Toyota cd/radio with Bluetooth,..from a later model hilux go in to my 2011 model,..hopefully using the same wiring connections and as a bonus, would the 2011 steering wheel controls adapt and work with a later model radio. It is if course double din size so if I needed to go to another brand of radio with bluetooth and therefore lose my steering wheel controls,...I would have to accept that,...but I would still prefer to fit a Toyota unit if possible,.......OR,....possibly what is 'wrong' with my present unit because I can not find a user manual for this model anywhere on the net. Hope that someone can help. Cheers,...Lance S.
  10. I have just purchased a 2000 Corolla Ascent but I can not find the clock that I believe that it’s supposed to have on the dash. The owner manual isn’t very informative, Google not much help either and neither is anywhere else that I’ve looked. There IS a small shiny front black area, about 50mm x 15mm lower down, slightly left of centre on the dash that I believe is where a digital clock is supposed to be but this car doesn’t show one, nor are there any buttons there to set a clock if one WAS to show up there when the ignition is switched on. The factory fitted Toyota radio cassette doesn’t have a clock either. I even wondered if perhaps the clock wasn’t fitted to all their 2000 models, but nothing in the manual differentiates between any of the ‘basic’ features in the car. If that IS the case however, that the ‘Ascent’ model DOESN’T have a factory clock, then that will be it and I’ll stop looking.......but so far, I just can not find anywhere to clarify that possibility. Cheers. Lance.
  11. I want to upgrade from my 2011 Hilux SR V6 to either a 2WD SR Hi-Rider,...4WD SR or depending on the dollars, a SR5. My question is do I stay with petrol or go diesel. D4D (which I believe had expensive injector problems in their pre 2009 models) or the newer 2.8 motor. I would have very little use for a 4WD in my travels and notwithstanding the fuel consumption, I do like the V6 motor, but there are a lot more diesel Hi-lux’s around these days in the later models so I may be reluctantly pointed in the diesel direction whether I like it or not. I just don’t know which one. My first choice of course would be a later model SR Hi-Rider with the V6 petrol motor but I have no idea if that would be possible in the later models. I live in the near Barossa area of South Australia so very little of my driving is short stuff, with the odd Eyre Highway return trip across to W.A.at least twice a year. Any advice would be welcome.
  12. Because of the restrictions and cost factor in fitting a lift kit above a 2” lift, to my 2011 SR,..with 15” wheels, I wonder if anyone can advise if it is viably possible to fit 17” wheels with perhaps bigger tyres, which theoretically could then give me an extra 2” or more of height /clearance. My reason being that on a recent trip over to Kalgoorlie and then 535 k’s east, along the trans access road to Rawlinna, Haig and then on to Kybo Station, it became apparent that I was having to slow down to dodge around more and more rocks on the track itself, where a bit more ground clearance would have made the trip far less of a worry about hitting something underneath......like a mini boulder. I want to go back again to Kybo but then cut down south, across country fir about 150 kilometres to meet the Eyre Highway at Madura or Cocklebiddy. Would I be causing myself any grief or problems by changing to 17” wheels and bigger tyres. Cheers Lance.
  13. If you were in Adelaide the solution could be somewhat simple. There is a wreckers here that IS currently wrecking a gold 2003 Avalon Vxi Mark 3,..the identical same model as I have owned for the past seven faultless years and the seating in mine is about the most comfortable that I have ever sat in,..so if you CAN find one of the upper range Avalons being wrecked,..I would seriously look at the seating in one. If you can find a Grande being wrecked,...definitely take a look. Cheers
  14. My problem still remains the same. I have my spotties working okay,..I have them wired through a dash switch via the relay and down to the lights with the trigger live wire coming from the red high beam wire in back of one of my headlights,... which means that with the dash switch in the ‘on’ position my spotlights will come on when I hit high beam and will go off again when I hit low beam,...just as the law requires and just as every past negative earth vehicle has done for me in the past,...using the very same wiring and relay as I’m using on my 2011 Hilux now. My problem is still that if I leave that spotlight switch in the ‘on’ position when I turn OFF my headlights, the spotlights will immediately turn on,..even if I’ve been on low beam before turning the headlight lights off. This has NEVER happened to me before in any other vehicle that I have ever owned and I’m 77 now. Surely it’s GOT to be some sort of peculiarity in the Toyota Hilux wiring setup. 🤔 Cheers.........Lance.
×
×
  • Create New...

Forums


News


Membership