What have you done to your car today?

shrpshtr325 said:
Man I'm stuck with 19 in my car. 300 miles on a good day.

At least the truck goes closer to 600 (32 gallons will do that I guess)
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The killer with the Land Cruiser is the hybrid is strictly for performance not really better mileage. It's better than the Suburban regardless of speed, but that would get 17 normally and close to 19 at 85mph. The LC mileage drops as speed increases. 80-85 MPH will get me about 22 MPG. A normal tank with mixed driving is 22.5-23.5 for the tank. My best mileage so far has been back and forth to LI. 60 miles each way in bumper to bumper traffic so I averaged 30 MPH for two hours each way. Got 27.5 MPG for the trip.
 
So door number one I still have to figure out my electrical issue and have at least 6 hours into that one. Anyone have access to a Toyota Techstream?

Today I banged out the other 3 doors in about 2 1/2 hours. As it should have been the first time around.

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Bike N Gear said:
Enjoying it so far. Would have preferred a better sound system and I hate all the modern safety features. The front cross traffic alert is annoying and is one of the items that re sets every time you shut off the car. Really would appreciate a larger gas tank too.
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Carson said:
All the nannies are part of the reason the 10-20 year old ones are so expensive. No one wants to deal with that crap.
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The Grenadier now has aftermarket software to access all the ecu menus, so I can effectively wipe the remaining Nannie’s (which are nowhere near as bad as 2026+).
 
one piece crank said:
The Grenadier now has aftermarket software to access all the ecu menus, so I can effectively wipe the remaining Nannie’s (which are nowhere near as bad as 2026+).
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For the LC I bought a Carista which is a code reader that also allows you to access a lot of the ECU menus. I can program or turn off "most" of the warnings. Only Front Cross Traffic Alert turns itself back on once you shut the engine so that one drive me crazy.
 
Bike N Gear said:
For the LC I bought a Carista which is a code reader that also allows you to access a lot of the ECU menus. I can program or turn off "most" of the warnings. Only Front Cross Traffic Alert turns itself back on once you shut the engine so that one drive me crazy.
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I see the merit with rear cross traffic alert and I take no issue with that, but front? WTF
 
One last attempt today to fix my door handle sensor. According to AI the pins in the clips while looking perfectly in place might not make contact if they are off by even .5mm which looks perfect to the eye. So today I ripped apart the door one last time with a jewelers needle nose pliers in hand with the plan to check every pin of the half dozen plugs that had to be unclipped to remove the door panel. Went to the most likely culprit first and got lucky.

Everything looked good as I knew it would since I'd visually inspected this one numerous times. I pushed the wires on the back of the plug and saw zero movement but it did the trick. Stupid design that gives me pause as I don't see how years of slamming the door won't eventually dislodge it again. On the bright side I can now pull off the door panel and all its clips in about 5 minutes since I've had so much practice.

Now on to the next project.
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sundaydoug said:
The last new car I bought was in 2005 and the way things are going I may not buy a new car ever again.
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icebiker said:
You are not alone
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It's honestly frustrating... I'm finally in a financial position where I could buy a new car and there is basically nothing available I want to buy.
 
Ian F said:
It's honestly frustrating... I'm finally in a financial position where I could buy a new car and there is basically nothing available I want to buy.
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I hear you. And even if one could accept the maddening over-technology, we have to deal with cars that are for the most part hideously styled. Excessive cladding, massive ugly grilles, weird angles, squinty headlights, etc 🤮
 
Pricing on 360s that came from the factory with manual transmissions has gone full ludicrous. I stumbled on a '17 GTC4Lusso for sale locally and I've always wanted a V12 so I stopped by the dealer to check it out. Car wasn't there but when I mentioned what I had to trade, the dude was immediately on the phone with the owner, who has been driving it himself. We arranged to meet at his storage area about 15 minutes away so I cleaned the car up, hopped in an .... crank, crank, crank. No start. I've owned the car for almost 16 years and it's never failed to start.

I think it's mad at me. 🙂

Anyway, I'm deep into the intricacies of Bosch/Ferrari engine management. Since it has 2 MAFs, it has two ECUs and essentially runs as two coordinated 4 cylinder engines. The left side ECU is the master so at least I can concentrate on that one.

So far, I found a blown fuse that (confusingly) powers the interior lights, door lights, and ... the OBD2 port. That did nothing to fix the car but did confirm that both ECUs are alive. I've confirmed that the fuel pump is priming. I bought a 'noid' kit that's used to check if fuel injectors are getting triggered but I have to pull the fuel rail to access the connectors so that's on the back burner for now.

It turns out that there are multiple 12V inputs to the ECU so it's possible for it to be responsive to OBD2 but not actually run the car, so that's cool.
 
icebiker said:
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I mostly agree with this but it’s unavoidable in all cars today.

One of the reasons I liked the car I just got aside from the color, size, performance (the body style kinda grew on me a little more) is the center console still has tactile buttons for the most basic things i need quick access to (temp controls, audio, air flow, etc. ) that I could also bring up on the screen if I wanted to. And I do prefer a physical shifter but getting used to the buttons so far hasn’t been too bad. After a few days of actually driving it, I am getting used to the combination of touch screen vs. non touch screen functions and it seems to be a good balance. I had my other car for 10 years so like anything else I need time to adapt to everything in this one.

This is a generic pic of the console from the web not my car but for sure not everyone’s cup of tea. speaking of cups there is another deeper cupholder under the little door panel in front of the one you can see which happens to hold my 20oz Contigo insulated water cup perfectly.🙂

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