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as long as you can keep the helium in the tyre for your unsprung weight will be lower there for your car will handle better

I agree

The New Nissan GT-R's tires have unusually pliant sidewalls, improving steering, agility and ride comfort. They are filled with nitrogen rather than conventional air, which prevents pressure change during high speed driving.

Going to do some rapid driving in the Kluger hey?? :)

toyota nunawading is selling the brand new 2009 plate AWD KXR automatic for $40,000 driveaway....

Are you sure its AWD ?

Well he got the Auto part correct!! :P

Had a message flash up on the screen that the key ring/remote battery needs replacing 'contact dealer' but can't see how the unit comes apart.

Anyone repaced their battery in the remote?

Surely it doesn't need the dealer to do it?

WARRANTY!

Definitely a top deal dazbeer, congrats. Exactly $5.5K less than I paid for my Merlot Red KX-S AWD in June last year

You always pay a little more to be the leader but its worth it.... :) Its like landing on the moon :D

There's a heap of repos around too!

No complaints from the wife or me on the Aero Thules either :D

Not of my car but a link>>>

To PICTURE F

Option 2 - Aerodynamic bar type Max Load 100 (kg)

Price (Includes GST) $270.00 (RRP)

Foot Pack RT 755

Bar Pack GL 869

Lock INCL

http://www.thule.com.au/vehicleguide_detai...model_id=125307

Hope it helps

We have two KX-R's both with racks and no indication of a rattle, whistle etc.

Cheers

Gary

no whistle???? really???? just that i was advised by toyota that there would be some whistling if roof rail is installed on a kxr....

I got new Thule racks during the week....Look great being silver to match the Grande not Toyota Black.... not sure about noise yet, they are too new!

Oh ic.,...

I really need that button coz sometimes I could not make it in time to push the button on the handle.

It does not replace your door lock/unlock.Lock/unlock stays the same, for sunroof is press and hold.

Basically,with unlock button pressed and held you doors unlock and roof opens.Then if you want you can short press lock you doors.

Same for oposite.

Hi,

That'd be quite useful on a hot day to let the heat out on the way back to the car, but if you have the shade closed, I guess its not going to help. Any idea if they can have the cars windows go down. IE In my Vectra and a previous VW, If I exit the car, and forget to close all wondows, then I would just press and hold the door-lock button, until all windows wound up, similarly with approaching the car, press the unlock button and hold it down, and all windows would wind down. I use this a lot in summer to cool the car off a bit.

Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere on the forums, I'm fairly new, and am still trolling my way through the sage advice offered.

Thanks

Id go for the windows to shut with the remote that's a real benefit...

would a reasonable person consider this one as an alternative to Kluger Grande 4wd?

Ahh NO, Seating is only for five!!!!

What's happening with this calendar? =)

But, here are my submissions! =D

That's a nice colour car Are the photos touched

bah, can't be bothered... just accepted the deal with 57000 with no accessories. quite ok with it. i know a few people who bought it for 60000 in perth.

HI All, great forum, keep hagling with your dealers,

We have just signed for 2009 AWD Grande Pearl with Sand for $58948 drive away in VIC, should have it in 12 weeks fresh of the line....

We added Side Steps, towbar, Front & Rear Parking Sensors, Roof Rails, car mats, for a total of $62416 drive away...

This was done over the phone with a country dealer, must have been a very Sloooow month.... As he did all the work, and was the First price he quoted.

Had other over the phone quotes from $72k to $67k, with the usual "come and see us"...needless to say this dealer got the job.

The others didnt even bother to match or better...

Not going to bother with the $2k Protection pack.....rather spend $300 a year at the detailers..

good luck to everyone else...

Great buy ....dealers are hungry

I wouldn't mind buying interstate... except Perth is like thousands of km's from every other major city. Not sure what the transport cost of a car would be... and i think there's probably other charges related to bringing a car from another state. Otherwise, WA dealerships would be out of business by now.

If you buy a new, or near new car, and bring it into the state, I don't think the fees will be as much as you'd expect. Especially if you buy it "on road" interstate.

I suggest you check with a couple of rail/truck freight companies and find out what the cost of transporting a car is.

Failing that:

Sydney to Perth - 3970km's - @ 10L/100 @ $1.20/L = $476

Melbourne to Perth - 3426km's - @ 10L/100 @ $1.20/L = $411

Adelaide to Perth - 2698km's - @ 10L/100 @ $1.20/L = $323

Or just pay the extra couple of grand... Your choice.

Not to mention Time to do it!

anyone experienced problems with the touch screen not working ??

Hello and Welcome, I thought the same when we picked up our car something was wrong too

Notice its really bad when you are moving!!! Its speed related, some functions are limited whilst above about 5Kms/hr

Other wise No

Been to 3 dealerships now... and they all wont budge from 58000 for an '08 2wd grande... so the best price so far is still 57500. Just worried the graphite colour may run out by then :(

And Silver or White is better than Graphite anyway.

Maybe not better, more common is the word so they may be cheaper but in the end colour is irrelevant (not metallics that is a supposed extra) in the total price of the car leave that to the end of negotiations after you have closed the deal at the end of the day the cars are all the same/model spec if you know what I mean.....If you choose a colour at the beginning you give the dealer an big advantage in negotiations.

Sounds like we missed out on a lot the US got

At this point I still cant get the DVD cover off, if any one knows something about it would be a great help, as Toyota have No idea as the car is too new now

Does any one know any one that has done this yet? I still have a audio cable running across my roof!

Did you end up with any success on this. I'm expecting delivery on my Grande next week, and I've asked my dealer about this as well, no surprises that they still don't have a clue.

Thanks....

Nope cable still hanging there for over a year now!

It doesn't seem to worry any one!!

Bother. I was hoping to achieve both an Aux input and sound output via the sat-nav head-unit. I guess I'll have a shot at removing the cover of the RSE DVD player when the Grande arrives, and see what I can see.

Thanks anyway, and I'll post if I have any success.

Just an update. I took my car to Northfield Car Sound in Moorooka (Brisbane), and they fitted a VAISTech SoundLinq SLI interface for my iPod. I went for the SLI on their advice, as it has the AUX input, and here's the best bit, the audio out of the overhead DVD (in the rear) already comes down the passenger A-pillar. Apparently the Northfield guys have done this a lot, so they just pick it up there where it terminates at some factory connector, and use the SLI's AUX input, to get the read DVD audio to play through the factory sound system. Works a treat.

The Northfield guys said they would also have a go at getting my video ipod connected to the AUX input on the rear screen. Unfortunately, the Toyota Grande Rear DVD doesn't have an AUX Video input (despite have the switch on the facia, and the US Highlander having this), so there's no way to patch my ipod into it. BTW, the Rear DVD is a Panasonic Unit (Matsu****a to be specific, I can give a model number if anyone cares, not Fujitsu Ten as reported elsewhere in these forums), and the PCB inside it has empty IC sockets for the AUX video and and FM transmitter components. Dang

Hopefully this saves someone else some questions later on.....

Nice work guess which cable im going to be looking for in the A pillar very soon? I bet its a fixed line out I may have to put a master contol up front for the Pilots as we have been using the Headphone volume on the side of the DVD which can be accessed from the front seats.....

Hmmm... offered them 56500 with mats included.. the salesman called the manager, who then called the dealer principal, and said they couldnt do it. They tried quite hard to push me to offer a lil bit higher, but I ended up walking out to 'think about it'. Should I wait awhile and see what happens or try another dealership?

If you are not in a hurry..

They will ring you in the next couple of days if they are keen on moving cars.......which is what they are paid to do.

At least you got a response from the correct man the dealer principal......If they did not bluff you...

Good luck with it

Well, not so good in my experience, as far as the wheel spin.

During the Sydney down pour last weekend, on few occasions, the fast start resulted in a very brief spin, and that with my new Toyos on the front.

Most likely it was the rear loosing it since old Bs on the back have little groove left.

Just think of the money you saved with the new tyres the B's are $485.00ea so I was told on the weekend and there are none in the country! Not that I care yet I try and never mix and match Tyres on a AWD's.....Keep them all the same its a bit hard on the Kluger at $500 a corner not as bad as a guys I was talking to at a party on the weekend.....It is $2,200.00/Corner for his X5 FITTED with 22" w@nker wheels as he said, I told him to sell the car when it comes time to replace the tyres

Prados are set to 50PSI from Japan :)

Well, my KX-S has just done 950Km. I checked the tyre pressure for the first time tonight. Probably drove about 4km to the servo and the road was wet so the tyre temperature should have been pretty low. They certainly weren't hot to touch. Every tyre was 50psi (345Kpa)! I set them all to 40psi and then went to the next servo a few hundred metres away to make sure the first one was't faulty. Sure enough it was spot on 40psi (what I had just deflated them to at the first servo).

Does the Kluger come from the factory with 50psi or did the dealer do that? Pretty weired that every tyre was spot on 50psi. Perhaps the dealer puts it at 50psi for the first 1,000km for some reason??

On the other hand, it was built in Japan in November and complianced in December. It can get pretty cold in Japan in November/December so maybe the factory put in 40psi when it was really cold??? Could a 30 degree temperature difference equate to 10psi extra.

Pretty sure I mentioned this before, imported cars have their tyre pressures set ridiculously high so that the tyres don't flat-spot in transit and when they sit at the docks. Usually the dealer should drop them down to a road-worthy pressure before they leave the showroom floor, but obviously some miss this.

Tyre's are meant to be checked and reduced before the car is delivered in the predelivery schedule from Toyota....told info by a Toyota Mechanic friend

It is illegal to fit HID lights into a halogen reflector.

I went to Autobarn today to get the Philips halogen lights. The guy behind the counter tried to sell me a HID kit including fitting. I said, "but are they legal?". He just shook his head. Don't know why they're pushing them if they are illegal. I suppose they make money selling and fitting them. The factory halogen headlights are not designed for HID globes. If you manage to get them pointing in the right direction and don't go over 6,000k then you probably won't get pulled over for it. But what if you have a head on accident at night and the other driver says your lights were bright? Then the police will check your lights and presto, the accident is your fault and you had an accident in an unroadworthy vehicle which may leave you uninsured. If you need good lights for the country highways buy HID drivng lights that you can mount on a nudge bar. Upgrading your headlight's halogen globes to Philips halogen globes (I got Crystal Clear 4300k) will give you some improvement over the factory globes for ~$60-$100.

Just say Autobarn fitted them... No you do have a valid point that's why these type of threads always issues

If you need good lights for the country highways buy HID drivng lights that you can mount on a nudge bar. Already have them!

OK may be not such a good idea! :D

OK, I admit to borrowing Mrs Kluger's car to take it for a spin in the wet. With rain so rare in Sydney, I just had to take the opportunity to check the full travel of the accelerator and the 4wd system. How good is the grip!! No wheelspin, no beepin' traction control warnings (it WAS "on"), just whoosh and we're off in a BIG hurry. So far the car has proven itself in the dry; highway, city, 100's of kilometers of corrugated dirt and bulldust out near the Darling River, a little bit of genuine off road down near the Murray River, and tracks in the Deua National Park. Now for the wet. The grip reminds me of my old Audi quattro - way beyond what you think sheer physics would allow.

I'm glade you enjoyed it, take it on soft sand and you will hear it beep its head off if you don't disable the traction control.....But I was surprised even in this mode for such a big car it hauls in any condition what will the next 20 years in automotive engineering bring for us

Retrofitting HID's into halogen reflectors is most definitely not legal. Even retrofitting into halogen projectors is not legal. A proper HID projector will be self-levelling and will have washers located on the bumper. The projector design itself is also a little bit different. This is not all true as not all factory HID's use a projector after the globe eg my Forester XTMY06 But it does have washers which are compulsory, no headlight protectors are allowed and I'm sure my Forester does not have self levelers in them

Also, don't put HID's in your fog lights please. They will have extremely bad glare.

They are fine mine never get turned on by them self they come on with the high beam wired through the original dash switch! So there is a twist to every rule, I do agree don't put fogs in if you are going to driver around with them on in the city for pose value it is a pain in the arts

Andrew when I said "it is" I was referring to it being illegal to retro fit HID's to std head lights.........It opens a hole can of worms, if you do make sure you're aim the head lights down I did mine and they got checked by Toyota and they were on target so I was lucky enough to get away with it, and also don't put blue and purple colour lights in you will be just asking for trouble ...6000K Max

Not sure if it's even legal to put HID lights in a car that didn't come with HID.

It is!

Has anyone changed the Grande fog/driving lights to Hid's?

If so, how much difference did it make, how difficult and where did you mount the ballasts?

Same with the headlights, anyone done it and had any problems? Kluger lights are pretty average stock.

Any details appreciated,

Thanks

There is a thread about this on here, I have done the head lights and my spots are HID's as well but not the fog lights.

I have done them all in my forester and I would do it again its that good, no ugly spot lights required!

The ballasts I mounted behind the fog lights in the guards

Not sure where you'll get you lights from as there are heaps of poor quality units out there and the guy that I got mine from dosent do it any more because of it.

Hope it Helps

The links

http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/inde...showtopic=15321

http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/inde...showtopic=15348

^{I just realized you started the original thread so what ever!}

Just decided to get the wife a new SUV (our daughter is due in 6-7 weeks). After much researching, we believe the Kluger was the best for us. Went to a dealership to check it out and the wife just had to have the remote tailgate release. So the grande was the only option. We don't need the AWD since we don't plan to go offroad.

After much negotiating, the dealer offered an 08 model Grande 2WD, graphite (brand new) for $57500 (inc 12 month rego and on road costs), or I could have a brand new 09 model for $59000. Just wondering which one would be a better choice? We plan on keeping the car for at least 7-8 years, would the resale value differ $1500 at that time?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Take the cheaper one! 1.5k off the top end wont mean squat in 8 years time. the auto entry and start is great as well had our Grande since 2007, shell love it.

Go in and say I ll take the old one today for $56,500.00 :D and Ill go go you halves in what Ive saved you!