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I can't wait to see the photos of the Sunday cruise. I really, really, really wanted to go and boy did I try. Had a fun time on the other nights though. Thanks everyone.

Woohoo. Look forward to meeting everyone tonight.

Yeah I am going to have to do that (manual calculation) to confirm.

Smooth ride home tonight. Averaging 32km/h (according to my handheld GPS).

Got home in 20mins. (usually 35+)

Trip computer figure dropped to 13.8L/100km.

Anyway this is still my first tank.

Yeah, you really have to do the manual calculations if you want to get an accurate figure. For me, I found my actual value turned out to be better than the in-dash approximation. When it's time to fill up, I always seem to always have a figure of 11.2l-11.7l/100km displaying on the dash. When I manually calculated it however (using an average of about 4000km) I had a fuel consumption figure of 10.4l/100km. Guess my Aurion was more fuel efficient than I thought.

I just use the in-dash gauge to give me an idea of my driving style. I'm naturally lead footed and when I get a high figure on the dash, I usually then realise that I should back off a bit (mainly because fuel is like liquid gold these days). Even still, for the way I drive, I am quite satisfied with the 10.4l figure that I am getting.

I'm approaching the 5000km mark with my car (distance that I have driven with it, and for which I have fuel receipts for), so I'll soon calculate my average fuel consumption with a 5000km average, once my tank is empty. I'm sure that won't be far off with the National Meet this weekend

Provided you can obtain the parts, you can install pretty much anything from a higher grade car into a lower grade of the same model. It all comes down to how much you want to spend, and how much time you will take to make it look like a factory feature. For example, you will need to run the wiring for the Toyotalink, and considering there is a fuse space in the engine bay fuse box, you would have to go through there if you wanted that "factory fit". Otherwise, if yyou do it your own way and can get your hands on the item, you too can have the Toyotalink in your Aurion.

Hi All,

I picked up my new Aurion Presara a few weeks ago and registered for the Toyotalink facility. Didn't really think much about it until my wife decided to visit relatives in Melbourne while I stayed in Sydney for work. Since then, I have been tracking her on the internet and calling every now and then to tell her where she is!

Ok . . . so there are certain implications around privacy and paranoia however we've been having a bit of fun with it and IT IS MY CAR

I'm now hoping this comes standard on all cars by the time my kids get to driving age!!!!

Dax.

It certainly can be fun to play around with such a feature. At least in this case, your wife is aware that you have the ability to track her, so a situation like that is all good. It's amazing how such technology has worked it way into the consumer market.

If I had to borrow someone else's car with Toyotalink, first thing I would do is pop the bonnet and remove the fuse. Not that I have anything to hide or anything

I haven't really had any issues with the front end scraping. I found that the front clears the inital step in driveways (that use the angled gutters) pretty well. The only problem I do get is with the rear end. After having some metal scraping (a really painful sound, luckily it was the muffler and not the tips) I no longer take any chances with steep looking driveways. Bit of a bummer since most of my mates have driveways that would put my Sportivo at such an angle that the rear will scrape.

In situations where the front doesn't clear, taking it at an angle works wonders. Unfortunately though, that has it's limits to helping out with the rear. On my Camry, I could angle it cause it only had one muffler; can't win with the Aurion though, it's one or the other. I don't think I would be able to put up with it if I got it lowered. I just covered my scrape marks with touch up paint. I wasn't too fussy with getting mine absolutely perfect though since you have to look under the front to see it.

I wonder if anyone gets that 'electronic' weezzzzz when the aircon is on? Its noticeable when the aircon or fan is on and u turn the music off...

Cheers

I also get water marks under my doors else well?

And the gear changes does take time to change?

Are referring to the slow gear changes under operating temperature, such as when you put your foot down to make it drop a gear? In that case, that is part of the design of this car. I think it changes slower to give a smoother gear change, which I must admit is pretty damn smooth.

Kool. I'm looking forward to Friday and Saturday night. Shame I wasn't able to get someone to cover my Sunday shift at work however.

Does it have information on setting the lock/unlock beeps?

Anyway the camrystuff.com site seems to be down.

You can enable/disable the lock/unlock beeps, as well as the indicator flashes. Unfortunately, you need to use the Intelligent Tester to do so which is a real nuisance as you have to go to the service department every time you want to make a change.

I'm not giving advice here so don't hold me accountable for trying to cheat the system; but one would probably remove everything to do with the HID's before you try and make a warranty claim. HID's can give reasonable claim to deny warranty replacement of the headlight assembly.

yeah I already removed all the ballasts and bulbs when it happened for the first time because I didn't wanna blow the bulbs.

Also installing HID definately would not be acceptable if I have some problems with my headlights so yeah, removing the HID was my first move

when the condensation problem came up and I thought it's because of HID but it wasn't.

I replaced with original bulbs and it still happens. :(

In this case, making the warranty claim is the last option that I have and I will do that on Monday.

And I think I am able to get the warranty because I actually turned everything back to original, since I only have done HID and they are all removed now.

Everything under bonnet is still same as original.

I've done the parking sensor on the back bumper but I don't think it's gonna void the warranty cuase there's nothing under bonnet.

Thanks for advice. :D

It is possible that it was caused by the HID's you know. If the problem arose after the HID's were installed and you changed it back to the original bulbs, you may have simply just trapped the moisture in the assembly and now it is going through the whole sealed greenhouse effect. When you put the bulbs back, it may have appeared that there was nothing inside the assembly, when it may have just been 'humid' and no moisture was condensed on the front end. Then as it was sealed, the moisture was then trapped, so whenever it cools down, it condenses, and then the cycle repeats.

One method I would do to try and help clear it up it to choose a day when it is dry and sunny, remove the bulbs and let the headlight assembly sit with the sun shining on them (the hotter the day the better). Hopefully the moisture will then evaporate and work its way out of the assembly.

I'm not giving advice here so don't hold me accountable for trying to cheat the system; but one would probably remove everything to do with the HID's before you try and make a warranty claim. HID's can give reasonable claim to deny warranty replacement of the headlight assembly.

Quick update guys.....

Firstly, Hooters is secured and booked for 7:30pm on the Saturday night....

Secondly, I have arranged for drinks to be sold at both the Show N Shine on Saturday afternoon, then also the Cruise on Sunday (depending how long supplies last). There will be Mt Franklin, Coke, Sprite & Fanta....

Damn I am looking forward to this.....

Azz

So how is the booking for Hooters managed? Just wondering because I will definitely be there, but it was probably my bad for not including it on that list of names that were some posts before this and probably throwing the count out.

Mines reserved for (hopefully) late next week :D

Anyone tried using something like an OBD Key with one of these? http://www.obdkey.com/

Thinking of giving it a go :-) Will post details if I do.

bok

I can't picture the OBD Key working with the head unit. Unless of course you could mess around with the head unit's firmware to enable it to run Windows Mobile applications.

I think it's just the LCD that makes the overall size of the head unit look larger. From just quickly glancing at it, you wouldn't think it would fit it, but you will find that all Aurion models have the same spacing for the head unit and A/C controls.

With the emblem unerneath the A/C controls, I really want to do that now. Did you also get that from Thailand as well? I'll probably give Toyota spare parts a call and see how much they will quote me for one. I'm prepared for an insane price though, so I'm wondering where else I can get it.

Well... my auctioned Aurion came with 2 master key with remotes (no spares), been thinking whether its viable to for piece of mind sake get another set of remote and master key for the Aurion.

Not sure if you can buy a master key from ebay or local key shop and program it yourself as per above instruction?

Cheers

I hope someone my be able to confirm whether you can program the master key in a similar fashion. I couldn't get mine programmed with the instructions for the '02 Camry which is all that appears to be out there, so I took it into the Toyota service department to get programmed. Since they wipe all codes from the car then add them all again (they need to have all the keys you own), they programmed the remote for me as well so I never thought of trying the remote coding instructions. I too got the remote off eBay for cheap, so the major cost for me was the key itself ($100 for original Toyota).

They used the Intelligent Tester to program the keys, so I figured while they were at it, I would restore my driver door only lock functionality (where you press unlock once to unlock only the drivers door) since originally, just one press unlocked all doors.

I got my car at an auction so only had one set of keys, and didn't want to risk loosing my master then paying a lot more to get things fixed.

I like how you put the AURION emblem in that empty space below the A/C controls. It actually fits in quite well.

Love the grill as well. As for installing the Angel Eyes, probably good to find someone more experienced? I wouldn't be willing to try it, but that's probably cause I tend to break things easily. Just remember to take photos of your progress.

I was a bit curious to get an overall average figure for my fuel consumption, so 4009.9 km and 417.14 litres later, I calculated my average fuel consumption to be 10.4l/100km. Not too bad I'd say for about 70% city driving (50% bumper to bumper, 20% no traffic). A lot of the time, I also like to cruise down the highway with my windows down, so I would think that wind turbulence would cause a bit of inefficiency as well. I thought I would be chewing through more fuel than that by the way I drive. I like to take off at lights and put my foot down to enter the highways and whatnot.

If only I could change my driving habits; then I would get better economy. But it's so hard when you have all this power that you don't want to put to waste.

2008ZR6; so I gather that you got your kit fitted by Fulcrum, but you're saying that Toyota should now have it as well right? After thinking about it however, I'd rather have it fitted by Fulcrum since I would trust them more given they are more knowledgeable about suspension.

If you don't mind me asking; what price range would I be looking at to get Fulcrum to fit the SPF2904K kit?

Hi Mate,

I had my kit installed by Toyota dealer but they must have got the kit from Fulcrum. I am taking my car to Fulcrum for wheel alignment. Toyota covered it under warranty.

I guess I'll see how much of a run-around my local Toyota service department is going to give me. The whole warranty thing is the only reason why I will rather have them fit the part (considering TEIN USA quote the part cost at USD$157, I wouldn't think the the SuperPro one at Fulcrum would be that far off). I do have my limits of patience, and I'm not going to keep running back and forward having them do jack all to the car and trying to convince me that everything has been fixed and is fine. If that happens, I will just go to Fulcrum and let the "professionals" do it. For the amount of hours Toyota can waste on me, I'd rather work some overtime and pay for Fulcrum to do it. I'll see how I go.

You should tidy up those cables for your amp. A nice place to hide them is in the area above where you mounted your amp. Mind me though, I'm a bit of a clean freak :P

2008ZR6; so I gather that you got your kit fitted by Fulcrum, but you're saying that Toyota should now have it as well right? After thinking about it however, I'd rather have it fitted by Fulcrum since I would trust them more given they are more knowledgeable about suspension.

If you don't mind me asking; what price range would I be looking at to get Fulcrum to fit the SPF2904K kit?

Cool. I guess back when I was driving my 91 Camry, I've just been used to seeing all these meets with all this riced up cars. In this case however; count me in for Friday, and Saturday.

On Friday, I'll meet everyone at the loop at 8pm. I did a browse through the other thread (what a long topic that was), and just need to confirm that this is the "loop/pool" that you're all talking about.

http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/inde...mp;#entry192448

And on Saturday, should I meet at the F1 at 5:30pm?

Well count me in then. You shall see me there on Friday, and Saturday nights.

Thought I'd move my post here as this is where the action is:

I would really like to go, but because I am a student, I'm working in retail at the moment. As a result, I am working on all four days.

If I was to turn up, I would only be able to do Friday (meet at the loop at 8pm), and Saturday (meet at F1 at 5:30pm as I finish work at 4pm). It is such a shame that I will miss out on Sunday, cause that day seems way too fun.

If Friday, and the other half of Saturday would be fine for me to rock up for (just seems odd not being there for everything), then I will join in for that since I have nothing else to do.

On top of that, my Aurion is stock and I think I'll feel out of place among everyone else.

I would really like to go, but because I am a student, I'm working in retail at the moment. As a result, I am working on all four days.

If I was to turn up, I would only be able to do Friday (meet at the loop at 8pm), and Saturday (meet at F1 at 5:30pm as I finish work at 4pm). It is such a shame that I will miss out on Sunday, cause that day seems way too fun.

If Friday, and the other half of Saturday would be fine for me to rock up for (just seems odd not being there for everything), then I will join in for that since I have nothing else to do.

On top of that, my Aurion is stock and I think I'll feel out of place among everyone else.