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Well, had the new facelift sedan in the driveway for a week now. All of our friends/relies who have seen the car all agree that the exterior changes look much better than the previous model. Funnily enough where I work we have a company who's sales reps drives conquest sedans and he reckons it looks better as well. Somebody commented that it looks like one of Mercedes latest model sedans though I've yet to spot the merc that she's referring too. The Optitron dash is a winner too. Looks really cool and offers a lot of info for the driver. Fuel economy, individual door/boot open, time/date and so on. But overall the centre read outs "floating" over the two central guages looks great. Headlight protectors has been changed. Dealer initially supplied the old model ones which won't fit and had to ring toyota for the new part number to oder in for us. Bonnet protector, mud flaps and so on all fit from the pre face lift. The stereo is good for a OEM system. But having said that, its still a poor sound system overall. The door trims vibrate and the speakers bottom out too easily with even moderate mid bass. The highs are Strident, mid range is muddy and lacking any sort of detail and don't even think about the mid bass and non existent bass. imaging is very poor and staging hap hazard at best and the frequency steer is about the worst I've ever heard. But having said all that, I reckon the system is easily rescued. Replace all six speakers, apply deadening to the front doors and baffling to the rear shelf (if there is room) should make a drastic improvement using the standard deck which looks nice at least. From there swap the head unit for something with RC outs, a nice 4 channel amp or a mono block and small sealed sub woofer and you'll get some nice tunes out of it!

Well it did catch the dealers out. When we placed our order for the face lift conquest sedan, the dealer told us it wouldn't be available until late July/august which we where prepared to wait for it. A week later They call us to say the car was in their yard! I don't know about the new Optitron instruments. haven't seen them yet. But we pick the car up tommorrow so I'll know all about the car then!

Just check to see if your rear speakers are wired correctly and one of them isn't out of phase. To do this, simply adjust the fader control all the way to the rear and then adjust the balance to either left or right. doesn't matter which side. If you hear the Bass out put increase when you adjust the balance either way then that means that one of the speakers is out of phase. If the bass stays the same or is lower, then the phase is correct.

Yeah well, those fog lights are a bit of an issue. Toyota's new brochure for the corolla clearly states that the conquest comes with fog lights (page 6 of 16) and even in toyota's own press room write up on the car. http://www.toyota.pressroom.com.au/press_release_detail.asp?clientID=2&prID=4151&navSectionID=2 Yet clearly the car does not come with the advertised fog lights. Went back to the dealership on saturday and spotted 3 conquest sedans, none had fog lights. Dealer was aware of the ommission from other customer complaints but so far has not received a reply from Toyota on the matter. Obviously somebody made a stuff up somewhere because now there are customers who ordered conquests and expect fog lights from toyota's own literature and are not getting them.

Top of the range had unit? That would be the Clarion HX-D2. If you haggle you might get one for about $1,800 - $2,000. In other words you won't get top of the range on a $800 budget. For that sort of money, I'd look at a head unit upgrade. You can get something very decent for around the $300-400 dollars from Alpine, clarion, eclipse, pioneer, etc. Then I'd swap the front speakers out. Not sure what fits the front doors of the camry, I'd hazard a guess at a shallow 6.5 inch or 5 inch on a baffle/spacer. Check out the two way stuff from Focal for around $200-250 per pair. Add in installation costs should see you around the $800 mark.

Don't forget the 14nm extra torque! Would have been better if toyota put a 5 speeder auto into the new facelift corolla's rather than an extra 2kw & 14nm. Oh well.

Not my greatest photography effort. Phones take lousy pics. Car looks a lot better than it does in the pic. IMho, its certainly an improvement on the older conquest. The fog lights is an interesting topic. The conquest sedan I photographed clearly doesn't have fog lights fitted, yet both the press release cc805 posted and the new 16 page brochure (page 6) both say conquest has fog lights. Maybe the fog lights are a dealer fitment during the pre delivery? Haven't seen inside the car properly to see if there was a switch for the fog lights.

Gee they are good. Dealerships here in Perth have only just started receiving the cars only today. searched high and low for sneak piccies of the new sedan and found nothing only last week. Now they are plastered all over the toyota website. BTW, the new colour is "blue steel", code 8U6 and available for accent, conquest and ultima sedans. Not sure about hatch. THe ultima sedan (ZRE-153) gets the 2.0 litre donk (3ZR-FE) 102 kw @ 5600rpm, 189nm @ 4400rpm and is coupled with the 4 speed auto only (U241E) Usual accessories are the same except for the headlight protectors. Part number is TO-PZQ1412080 according to my dealer. The bonnet protector could be new too, not 100% sure. Its part number is quoted as TO-PZQ1512060. Here is a pic of ours at the dealership here in perth. Its a conquest in silver pearl.

Hello everybody! Just done the paper work for a Corolla conquest my10 auto sedan facelift model in silver pearl due around July (probably august). This will be out first ever toyota so here's hoping its a good experience. Previous cars has been a Mazda 323 BA (still got), mitsi sigma 1986 & 1980, couple of torana's and a cortina. Looking to improve the car audio side of the corolla once I get my grubby mits onto it. Nothing major, just an alpine head unit, two amps, front splits, rear fill and single 12inch in the back. I know quite a lot about car audio and installation so it should sound as good as the previous cars did! The corolla is mainly for the wife to drive, but I'll get my turn to drive it here and there as I usually ride a motorcycle if you where wondering about the nickname. So looking forward to talking toyota with all of you and maybe even see some of you out on the road!