Dave89

for the new model corolla? ZRE152??? they don't exist, everything is direct from the dealers to Toyota's head office, try asking your local dealer, but i doubt you'll get anything.

2.1K.... wow.... well i'm ONLY paying 2.5k....with an excess of 1.4k no mods on my car, just factory accessories. Dave

no need to change a thing, the wiring is brand new, just disconnect the old speakers and connect up the new ones. although, if you intend on going all out and putting in amps and the like, it might be worth installing some oxide free copper cables, pretty sure the stock ones are just standard copper, but as they are so new there is good clarity. but just changing the speakers then, go for it, change em. Dave

i also suffer from sounding faint on the hands free, it seems like a poor design fault, not having a sensitivity adjustment, and a poorly placed mic, it should of been something external to the cd player, should of been on the roof near the convenience lights or perhaps just higher on the dash. or maybe there is a manual sensitivity setting, anyone asked a dealer??? Dave

adjust the sensitivity of the mic? did i miss read the manual, i didn't find anything in there about it, everyone tells me i'm too faint, i find myseld almost yelling sometimes while driving my car. how do you turn the sensitivity up? Dave

well for those of you that are interested.... my alarm was fixed, 30 mins at bdl and they tell me the siren was faulty, they put some other one in, not the same as the last one it has a different pitch, softer which in a way is better i suppose the last one was too **** noisy late at night wake the whole street up.

does the auris/corolla section of that site apply to the Australian model? no body mentioned anything about them being available for a price when i spoke to Toyota. Dave

it was white, had TOYOTA labeled across top of windscreen, i was in a rush, caught it out fo the corner of my eye, as for the model, got no idea i only saw the front and had the headlight of 3 cars in my eyes, probably 03-04. i probably should of mentioned this was around 12 midnight on saturday..... heh heh

have you got a photo of you're key/transponder? Dave

who did i see heading north on northbourne, in left lane at macarther intersection? Dave

eh? maybe you should be on Honda forums.... Dave

Anyone know if it is even possible to get them? i contacted my local dealer's service manager asking for workshop manual and wiring diagrams for my car. he contacted Toyota and came back to me to say that Toyota aren't going to produce a cd version or paper version of any manual for the car. Because Toyota dealers access those documents online from Toyota directly. Is this a forever thing? Does anyone know anyone important that could get these? Is Toyota trying to limit knowledge on the cars permanently or is it something they might bring out after warranty's expire? Dave

ordered my car in july 07, didn't get it till 30th October, granted it was because i had to actually turn 18 before i could get finance approved unless i had a guarantor and i didn't want that, but the car only arrived in Australia beginning of sep/late aug, the Toyota factories only build a certain type of car at once, they mass build them for a month or two depending on the demand then move on to something else, they build everything that was ordered, plus extras to be sold at the dealers as same or very short delivery days. they build corollas every 3 or 4 months, so you could be waiting up to 4 months for your car depending on your options + colour. EDIT: If you've got money to throw around or interested in a holiday, you can arrange with your dealer to go to japan (at your cost) and watch YOUR exact car being built, every step of the way. also my car had 30km on it once delivered, i suspect it was because toyota drove my car from Mitchell to fyshwick (for those people that know canberra) but roughly 15-20km or so? and then a mechanic test drive, rather than stick it on a truck like they should of, and i only got half a tank of fuel, is that normal? i thought the standard was a full tank. Dave

I got my Sedan Conquest 6sp manual for $28,800 (which was the standard drive away price), with metallic paint, 4 head reverse sensors, window tint, headlight protectors, mongoose alarm, and floor mats (~$1600) accessories chucked in for free. i test drove the leven zr in manual when i was at the dealer initially drives great, i wouldn't go for the auto, 4sp, you've gotta be joking, even the civic has auto in 5sp but yet toyota still put a 4sp transmission in the corolla. the hatch is quick and nimble but i go on a fair few long trips and i like having the boot space and the interior space to take friends with me, and the weight difference between the hatch and sedan isn't all that much, there is still a lot of acceleration in the sedan especially for driving around canberra where 75% of the roads are 60kmp/h and there is a thousand speed cameras around these days. the conquest sedan comes with a spoiler which makes it look all that much nicer compared to the other models. graphite is an awesome colour. Dave

yeah, well i'm an electrician (not auto) so i'm pretty technically minded, i've checked everything, pulled my car to bits to locate the fuses, the control unit, the sensors, nothing is out of the ordinary except the alarm doesn't sound, the lights flash as they should everything works but no sound. and toyota didn't disable it, or they did but re enabled it, because it was serviced about 10 days ago but stopped working about 4 days ago. anyway, called BDL today, they said whoever i spoke to at toyota must of been brainless because it is obvious its a BDL problem. booked it in to be fixed on tuesday. as for credit rating, applying for my credit report to be sent to me so i can see whats actually on it. and one more question for everyone, when toyota serviced my car they put the next service sticker on my car saying 3 months and 5,000km from then, however the service book states every 10,000 and 6 months? is canberra toyota trying to screw me out of my money or does it actually need to go in, or did someone just make a mistake? Thanks!

31st of October i drove away with my brand new corolla conquest sedan from Canberra Toyota in Fyshwick, i placed the order for the car in July when ordering the car i ordered multiple accessories, one of them being a sound alarm, Corolla's don't come with alarms so Toyota arranged for it to be fitted by BDL Car Stereo at a cost of $187 (i think). so here i am 3 months later, the odometer at 11,000ish just two weeks after its 10,000km service and the alarm has stopped working. So i ring the dealer at which i bought my car from and they have told me that the earliest time i can have it looked at would be 24th march, almost 4 weeks from now, unless i wanted to go to the other side of Canberra and take it to the Phillip shop i might be able to get it in 2-3 weeks... Is it wrong of me to expect a little better service than that considering my car is still in warranty and only three months old? I have had a poke around, it's not a fuse, the alarm unit itself defiantly works, i open the door while alarm is still armed and i can hear the relays clicking on and off and i can see the park lights flashing, the only problem is the actually siren unit. I am very disappointed in the service i get from Toyota all round. starting with the finance, Toyota said they would offer me a better deal than what my bank was offering me, so after i saw the figures i decided to go with it. on the day of delivery (which was actually a day late) i went out to the dealer at 3pm, having an appointment for 3.30pm and i was due to start work that day at 5.00pm i was waiting until 4.15pm before the finance rep was able to see me and he knew at 3.00pm that i needed to be out of there no later than 4.40pm in order to get to work. long story short, i didn't leave Toyota until 5.45pm, one and a half hours later, which in turn cost me $30 by not being at work, and my boss wasn't pleased. further to that, i elected fortnightly repayments of $310 and i was told the first payment would be two weeks and one day from the day i drove away from the dealer, so i ensured there was money in my account so that it could be debited, 2 weeks came, no money was taken out, i just assumed that they hadn't set the account up yet so it would be taken out when they had the account set up, 3 week came, no money take out, 5 days later, i receive a letter from Toyota finance saying "You're next payment will be <date>....here is your bpay number to make additional payments, bla bla bla" that date being a total of 5 weeks after delivery, i wasn't sure what to think, except maybe they were referring to the first payment coming out on that date, as i was told by the finance rep that i would receive my welcome letter telling me when my first payment would be. the following day i receive another letter from Toyota finance which said "You have dishonored a payment, you will be charged a $30 administration charge, please pay us using bpay....." i immediately called my bank to check if anything went wrong on my side, they said everything checks out fine, so i called Toyota finance, i spoke to some really bitchy woman, when i explained the situation she immediately told me its my fault, when i asked why was the transaction declined she said, "well you mustn't of had any money in the account" to which i told her i can provide bank statements saying otherwise. so she checked the computer and told me that the BSB or ACC number were wrong, i asked what number she had there and it was indeed wrong they had a 0 instead of a 2, so i asked her to remove the $30 charge because it wasn't my fault they had the wrong number, she replied with "you signed the form stating that was the correct number, I'll ask my manager, but chances are it won't happen" i got off the phone with her after correcting the number and arranging for the payment i missed to be deducted out of my account the following day along with the next payment which was also due the following day. when i was signing the forms i was in such a rush that i didn't bother to check the BSB and account number was correct, because when he originally wrote it down, he wrote it down on a sheet of paper by hand as i read it out to him, and he wrote it correctly because i watched him write each number down as i read it out to him, he was the one that typed it wrongly into the computer. further to that because of the payment i dishonored Toyota finance have put a mark on my credit rating report which has affected me severely, so severely that i can't even get a phone plan from Vodafone for $39 per month, which works out to be about 1% of my income. Toyota are always held up for servicing, for my 1,000km service i booked it on Friday, they told me the next available day would be Tuesday, they failed to mention it wasn't until the following Tuesday, when i booked it for it's 10,000km, i was told a month's waiting time, so i went to the dealer on the other side of canberra (which is still the same company) and it was only a week's wait. this is my third Toyota car, and my second corolla, i love Toyota's but where is the motivation to keep buying them when they treat their customers like this? Any suggestions about what i should do?