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.....or read the instruction manual that came with the car that shows how to change the battery and what to do etc etc when its goes flat lol

Same thing happened to me in the first couple of days of the new Kluger....when the dealer sent the Kluger out to have the front windows tinted the tinting guys didnt put the wiring back properly as they had to take door panel off to put the tint on fully. Could be something as simple as that!?

You need to read thread from a few weeks ago on loading contacts!

Hey fizzking sorry to hear about your bad experience. I'm fussy with my cars so when the dealer asks if they would like the vehicle washed I politely say no thank you but a thorough vacuum would be good. I also stipulate to the consultant every time the wheels/tyres are due for rotation that I require the 5 wheel rotation as per the owners manual and not the 4 wheel rotation. Never had a problem as they always annotate this on the service form or they would only do the 4! Its not so bad on the fixed price servicing but when service costs go to variable also tell them you dont want the washer bottle refill which they charge a stupid amount for given what it is. Got caught once on my Corolla when mine was full prior to the service and they charged for a refill after testing the wipers...pleeeeeease! They are monkeys so if you want them to do a job properly spell it out....I know you shouldnt have to but the resale value a few years down the track will be better if you wash it properly. My local Toyota service dept has a huge viewing window in the customer lounge that looks over the service bays so I always set aside time on the servicings to watch them do their job. Thats what they put the window there for as the kids arent really interested lol I have only ever had one problem with a service (previous car) and when I did their survey and told of the problem you could tell that sh%t did rolled down hill that day and everything was fixed pronto. At least you get a courtesy car...if I want one from my dealer they charge me for the courtesy!

I know its the US site but if you enter your VIN HERE then it will tell you if there is any recall due for your vehicle!

So do you have anymore info like links etc? Recalling 2011 Kluger......bit early one would think lol

We had this issue earlier this year....a bit of fiddling and its done via your PC! Contacts to Sat Nav This was for my Nokia. Unfortunately the owners manual for the Sat Nav is pretty crap to say the least when it comes to instructions on this. Probably because every phone is different!

The magic number is $1000 AUD. Anything under that Australian customs is not interested in. Over $1000 (total value of goods not including freight) they slap on GST, Declaration Processing Charge, Line Transport and Insurance charge. For a $1660AUD Network Attached Storage Device I had to pay Australian Customs all these fees totalling $229.28 before they would release from the bond store! All these costs are quoted directly from my Customs Tax Invoice. When I spoke to Customs they said to remember the $1000 limit. In this case it was pointless as the unit was a singular item that could not be broken down into individual parts to values of less than $1000 in total. Its also based on the value of the entire shipment not each individual item within that shipment!

I wont/am not defending car sales persons but in a majority of cases today's buyer arms themselves to the hilt with information regarding the model they are interested in purchasing whereas the sales person has to know more than you on every vehicle in "his" manufacturers range. I am yet to find a sales person that hasnt learnt something from my enquiries with them on particular cars and vice versa. Would you buy a house on the say so of the agent or after you did a pest inspection, market review of the area etc etc yourself? The sales person was probably selling TV's yesterday and the dealership is probably having just as much trouble finding quality staff like most other employers around the country. Given your statement about "whitegoods" I am not sure you have fully researched the Toyota Kluger or have owned many Toyota's. Regarding the three prices given by a sales person this would be "ball park" figures for particular Kluger models. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVT-i for some different variants, but given the "extra's" on this "Limited Edition", it sounds like a an "Altitude" model which by definition is a "Special" edition on the Toyota Aust web site. Before you go to any other dealers do your homework. "Bugger", for $50k+ expenditure you need to do your research dilligently and make that sales person think, and even know, that you are more informed than they are! Doesnt matter if its a Mazda, Holden or submarine the same applies! http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25498 details how Kluger outsells Mazda (Audi didnt rate?). If the Kluger wasnt any good it wouldnt sell so dont judge a car by how much the sales person doesnt know. If you still think the Toyota product is a "whitegood" then I hope you enjoy your Mazda or Audi :-) I have owned Toyota's, Ford's, Mazda's, Holdens etc and now have gone full circle and realised that for quality and value, I wont buy anything but Toyota for a mainstream vehicle due to the level of product satisfaction I have had. Good luck :)

Just checked and there is is no way of changing the speed or distance to/from imperial/metric unless you have some kind of interface to the GPS with Toyota/Denso software running to change parameters. When you go into the basic back end to check firmware revisions etc it comes up with country (AU in this case) as well as other info which is mainly just status info and some setups for bluetooth. Also give GPS speed so you can compare to speedo dial. To truely check if GPS would work in another country, you would have to download US wheris (as example) and put disc in AU GPS and see if it works ok regarding operation etc. Obviously you would be off the US map but putting in locations and scrolling thru map may work!? I have hunted everywhere on the net to get deeper into the GPS firmware without much luck. There are some US sites (mentioned in this forum) that provide changes but you have to know exactly what Denso unit you have or risk it turning into a brick. So in conclusion I am 99% sure the GPS will work in Australia but it would use imperial and not metric read outs for speed and distance.

if i bought the gps system from the u.s would it work if i used the australian whereis disc in it ? thats the question. Yes it will work as the only difference between the GPS units would be the speed (mph or kmh), as stated above, and distance readout settings in the firmware. You could get compatible maps from anywhere in the world and put them in the unit and it will work. The GPS is just a radio receiver that uses lats and longs to determine where you are on the loaded maps....any map! Its a "generic" GPS receiver so the one variable is the maps which is what all GPS's run off. For example I purchased a Garmin 196 Aircraft GPS directly from the US and just downloaded the latest info for Australia....works fine! The only reason that the most GPS units in cars dont have world maps is the size of the database for all the roads would be so large that the unit would be so slow at finding address points etc. Just remember the maps are database driven so the bigger the database the slower the operation. All vehicle GPS models are basically the same in every country the only difference is the maps. In fact I think the distance and speed can be changed between metric and imperial in the back end that I have seen.....I will get back to you on that one for sure though.

Should work here if you add Australia Whereis maps! GPS units are a worldwide device....just comes down to what maps you use in the unit. Also it will probably be in mph as I dont recall a setting to change it to kmh!

Key chains and pouches are dealer supplied with all their info on them and in them for their customers while Toyota just supply the manuals with the car. If the dealer didnt supply it then the dealer doesnt have any or cant be bothered giving you one!

You need to copy your contacts from SIM to Phone first. Then you will see them in PC Suite. My Nokia PC Suite for some reason doesnt use,nor can I find where to setup, the SIM as default for contacts. So after you copy from the SIM to phone memory use Windows Explorer/File Manager to find them and copy them to the new folder you created on the phone. Then do the send proceedure. Note that the contact files are .vcf files. If you double click on them PC Suite Contact Manager will open up with that contacts info where you can edit/add info. You can also see the raw data in Notepad. I'm guessing the SatNav wont recognise other formats when you pair it with a Nokia!

The current figure will reset automatically when you put petrol in the tank.....detects a change in fuel tank level from last known reading before turning off. Doesnt need to be half a tank. It reset for me yesterday when I topped up and put $15 in it which was about 13lts of fuel. Your last 5 previous readings will only be saved when you hold down the display button (in the grande anyway). Its all in the owners manual.

Just worked for me too :-) ...now I know what it means in the Toyota manual to send phonebook. Nowhere else does it give the basic info about copying files etc from Nokia or Toyota to get the procedure to work! Thnx heaps for the info dlindsay

are the cds you play burnt copies, mp3's etc or purchased commercial cd's? If home burnt from downloads etc then you probably need to normalise all the tracks to a level that is the same on all tracks. Most downloads/rips are normalized too high so you end up getting a louder and inconsistency between track and in your case sources! The usual standard setting for a normalization program is about 89db.....MP3Gain is a good free program to normaise your tracks before burning to cd.

There is still a trigger lock if you want to use it....your fuel cap. Trouble is in most states it is now illegal for fuel pump nozzles to have/use a lock "open" function.

The trip I did yesterday basically found that the highway speed settings in the GPS setup have no effect as to trip times! When I left Sunny Coast the trip time did the usual estimate, and as the travel progressed, the eta also decreased by up to 10 mins until I hit Bris traffic! This was with the highway/freeway setting at 120kph (max) and I did the trip at 110kph and 100kph (as per speedo) in the relevant zones. As I had it setup for freeway at 120kph you would assume that the eta would have started to increase as I was travelling at under the settings. Trip back was little or no traffic and I changed the setting from 120kph to 5kph for freeway prior to departure. Prior to getting onto the freeway I was mainly in 80 or 90 zones and the GPS was very accurate and the eta didnt change. Given I had set it for 5kph on freeways, you would have expected the eta to be days away at 5kph prior to departure. But alas, it was the same eta from the trip down. I have reached the same conclusion as you BandE in that the freeway settings are pretty much ignored. Seems the Kluger Sat Nav only works properly when you are doing 80 or 90kph!! I will talk to my local Toyota centre and see if they can make a tech report of some description.

I'm goin on a 450km roundtrip tomorrow to Brisbane which includes about 130kms of 110kmh zones and about 200kms of 100kmh and rest in 60-80 zones. I know when I go to the Oz Zoo Animal Hospital most of the road is 110kmh and is a 35km trip (one way). GPS initial time estimate drops by about 4 mins to when I get there. I have adjusted the highway speed selection to 115kmh and the other to 80kmh and will check the results tomorrow and adjust again for the trip back and see what happens. Hopefully the trusty Brissy gridlock wont get in my way too much. Will let you know what happens.

From memory there is another topic somewhere in the forum on this sensor wire in that if you put a switch in line with the wire, the factory gps will think you have stopped when you break the circuit. This way you can enter data on the head unit that is normally greyed out when in motion. I think the condition lasts a few minutes until the head unit realises gps position has changed and sensor has no output so it resumes on its merry way. At this point you close the circuit and the sensor inputs to the head unit again so the head unit can use the sensor for its dead reckoning navigation.

Unable or just not willing to break some rules? Is there anything in ADR about autolocks? Can't be any logical reason to ban it that I can think of. Would be interesting if someone could get a hold of the configuration device to see what really can or can't be done on the Aussie Klugers. I doubt they would make a special logic chip just for the AU Klugers. I drove a Hyundai van last week for work and when I drove out of Avis and got the speed up I heard a clunk. Didnt know what it was until I went to get out and noticed all the doors were locked. Took it for another drive and sure enough the doors locked when you started driving. When you used the drivers control to unlock them while driving they instantly relocked. I guess there is no issue with regs if rentals are using them!

Given the Kluger speedo under reads by 9kmh at 100kmh and the system uses both mechanical speed and GPS speed for calculations, adjsting the three settings can compensate a little for this. Hard to do nowadays in city areas, but to setup correctly you would ideally need 10kms of road with no stop lights or signs and setup/adjust that way if you wanted everything perfect for each type of road. I have mine as good as it will get and is pretty close to my Garmin unit. I have usually found most GPS units start with a higher estimated time to travel and gradually decreases further into the trip. Mine is an 08 Grande with v15 Whereis

Toyota says it's a Nokia firmware problem and not theirs! That is......Nokia has up to date bluetooth firmware and Toyota systems are early gen bluetooth so backwards compatibility is getting to be borderline. Toyota is just slow with firmware changes. My 6210 has same problem on my Grande!

bummer on the dealer even having the attitude. Was good info you gave....checked the guy out and he has a good range of stuff :D