Taka

Been to the dealer today as well.

The V6 RAV 4 sat nav is like the option sat nav for KX-S. The part department said the Grande plug is different.

The suburb is very important in Melbourne for AAMI. I am in inner Eastern suburb around schools. They tend to be the safest areas for insurance (except Hawthorn).

It is a question with no right answer.

That is what I will do.

Start the car and put your jacket or whatever in the car, don't need to wait 5 min since it will take lots of petrol. Drive off with a very light foot (even just let it run by itself for first 100km. Keep the rev range under 3000rpm before the coolant in warm temp.

No braking hard as well unless it is to prevent accident.

Drive and keep in a varying speed for the 1st 1000km. I will change oil in the first service. Then just drive normally.

No towing and racing for the 1st 5000km if you can.

I should have told them I am a Tasmanian! Driving in Victoria for work haha. Good stuff guys.

Fleet and private sales price is so big that makes me vomit <_<" Consider youself lucky. (very jealous Taka)

You *****! (I meant bas-tard)

I pay $850. $35 for windscreen and $20 for hired car protection. AAMI. $500 excess. Rating 1. Over 30 in good suburb (I think).

I have tried to copy an image once and it does not work for country roads. There must be hidden files somewhere.

The one I have got is a copy and it is a DL +R disc. It is blank white top and not sure where to get them

Congrats on getting the big sofa. Comfy car isn't it

I do notice, and I wonder y.

No there is still no red light camera installed, let's hope for v15 in denso version.

It is lack of some features of portable units, but I found they work in tunnel where they estimate your location using car speed and point to the exit accurately. I also found the instruction for turning is quite accurate.

I like the fact that you can get areas you need to avoid the traffic. Only the traffic condition input will improve that, and that is possible to only some selected portable unit and I think you can insert the radio data input to the denso unit if the service is available. We need that.

You can increase the speaking voice of the instruction. 1-7 voice levels. I am on 7 and increase while driving. So even my kids at the back can hear it.

Will the Kluger V 14 works?

Where to get good price DL DVDs?

I have to admit that Satellite navigation is become a must in the car. You can see some old Nissan that barely worth a cent will have a $300 plus sat nav hanging on their windscreen. I mean their portable sat nav screen is brighter than their brake lights... <_<

What Where is DVD has not catch up on is the current news. I wish woman voice inside the DVD have update her news on the current affair or todays tonight and found out by now that the Eastlink was open a few weeks ago and traffic is flowing well.

However, this lovely women keeps saying every few hundard yards of Eastlink, "next 2km, traffic restriction may apply.... ple...ase respect local traffic regulation."

I really want to strangle her but I don't know which button to push

http://poweredby.whereis.com/shop/Whereis-Online-Store.html

Now checking on the website, only VDO is updated. Come on, get your acts together whereis staff! <_<

If there is anyone want the V14 version. I am using a copy and working fine, but a double layer disc is required.

Not have time to fix it yet. Default setting is 3/5 for both latency and sensitivity. So I guess delay to the longest and slightly more sensitive?

Not really for Lake Mountain, it is only 1530m high.

Good for XC skiing and tobogganing... good for kids since they are not far to drive.

For me I like the road going to the mountain and back ;)

It won't go off until you open the driver's door. It is a good function as if you die on the steering wheel, people will look at you since you have your lights on!~

Another question: What is the OBD-II protocol that Toyota uses?

Sorry for late reply

It is CAN 11/500 protocol.

Hotham you need chain even 4WD!

http://www.mthotham.com.au/today/reports/snowreport.htm

Buller you need to carry chain, but not fitting them until you are told.

http://www.mtbuller.com.au/winter/snow_report.aspx

More here

http://www.vicsnowreport.com.au/report.html

The kid love the snow, may go again. Will go to Richmond - there are some good 4x4 store there to see if any chain for 19". Doubt there is 19" available at chain hire shops. If all fails, we will go to Lake Mountain again, since they are not expecting needing to carry chain for 4WDs.

No my only go to 0 or 1. Never see -1.

BTW: We need someone in Tasmania or Canberra to tell us that ;)

Crotoy showed us his HiLink iPod interface that works with the stock unit. I am too lazy to get 2km from my office to the car audio shop. I have to admit. It is steep uphill from here.

Yeah. Some Indians were there and they were so nasty when they displayed their yummy curry in public!

Tell you what! Driving a 4WD chasing people down twisty roads was fun.

EDIT: I also forgot to say.. the whole trip uses 11.4L/100km. It was averaging 14L/100km on the way up. The SNOW button costs petrol

Yeah. You should go. We were lucky that it was cold about 0 on the top, and 13 in Melbourne, and rain all day (snow on top)

I went up the snow yesterday. Well it is Lake Mountain and only 1500m high, but snowing when we get to the top.

I dropped the tyre pressure to 32psi as advised and was not required to carry chain at all. The road is icy and I engaged the SNOW button. It dampens the acceleration so much that it does not like to get up the hill in a hurry. Don't worry, I did not get trustrated as I stuck behind a Honda Jazz.

Not problem with driving and never miss a beat. I guess all cars get up there easy and hardly worth a test

Even a few FWD Kluger were there. They are required to carry chain sometimes, but not yesterday!~ :)

Snow was really white... so white that I have not seen in Australia. Like Hokkaido in Japan. Perfect day!

When I was about to go home, I used the OBDkey to check the coolant temp! 1 degreeeeee!

So I waited until it warms to 40C ~ while the kids were changing, before I moved the car.

Some one asked me how and where to put the OBD in. It is under the steering wheel column

Questions for Taka:

Is the ODB Key a bluetooth device? How much and where from?

How do you do the neat screen images from your phone?

OBD key is a bluetooth device, $180 delivered from obdkey.com

I took the picture with a program called Screenshot

http://www.antonypranata.com/screenshot

Free program!

i am curious about your OBD reader. i have mainly seen people mention scanguageII and dashhawk. i wonder if you have any thoughts on how your reader compares?

i'd really like to understand the relationship between real vehicle speed (measured by GPS) and the speedo.

i don't have an OBD reader because i have been holding off, waiting to try to get one a bit cheaper. the scanguageII seems to be about $190, the dashhawk is more like $400. but anyway... the experiment i'd like to do is to:

drive along at 20kph according to the speedo and see what the GPS says

drive along at 30kph according to the speedo and see what the GPS says

etc... in 10kph steps up to something not too high unless one is on a track or something!

that way we can get an idea of exactly how the speedo has been "fiddled" in our vehicles: are contant speeds added (with different amounts added in different speed ranges) or is it proportional to speed?

OBD reader is a bluetooth device. SO IT IS WIRELESS and draw the power from the OBD port. There is program for Windows CE smart phone and Palm or Windows CE PDAs. So you can use it as a gauge. But it does not come with a display unit. It is faster than CarBus I was told because it is capable of 4Hz update. 4Hz means 4 signals per second. So if you are requiring information from 4 parameters (speed, rpm, intake temp and ambient temp e.g.), you only have one update per second. Certainly it is not as fast as solid wire!

Speedometer calculate the speed from the drive chain, mostly at the differential level so that it will not be affect by gearing. But if the wheel is changed size (e.g. to different proflie, hence wheel circumference)... the speedo will be affected.

GPS is calculated from several coordinates divided by the time travelled. In a way it will be more accurate since most GPS receiver now log on to 6-8 satellites to get the coordinate. The chances of getting accurate result is very high. Most people trust the GPS speed rather than speedo...

The fact that Kluger's dash speed is different from the OBD/ECU speed is that perplex me... :( . Some cars like to display digital speedo and they are directly from the ECU ... even the Echo/Yaris has one!

Nerdygirl, if you want what good speed it is from the GPS, borrow your friends hand held navigator! Most of them show speed and you can use that to mark out what you want to do above! ;) You don't need a OBD gauge... if you really really want one. Check this out http://www.plxdevices.com/