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I am unhappy with quick availability of air conditioning on my 2012 Camry Hybrid, but the heat is less than half what I expect and not there as quick as it should be, compared to anything. On longer trips it is less a problem as the heat seems to stay in the car.
A long test drive on the right day would help determine your tolerance.
My 2010 Camry Hybrid did not have this issue. My other cars are not a problem for me.
Toyota Customer Experience brushed me off, saying it is operating as designed. Since they ran no tests, it is obvious they know something about the model.
Other than a very poor imitaion of a navigation system, the car is just great.
The 2013 Hybried Nav system did not see it. USB input on the Nav works great but will not pull up (find) my .jpeg even though my lap top displays it fine from USB.
Asked the experts at Toyota and they said - Call Toyota...
To all you Techno Geeks, what's up with that?
Real Problems found - Zero. After going thru the 300 plus pages in the Nav manual alone, my head was spinning, but I got it now. The expanded voice vocabalary in the Nav is dead on. "Go Home" and the Nav takes off.
News Flash - The wife still has no clue why she now starts the "System" instead of the "Car"... I'm a tech manual writer and I can't believe how well written the Hybrid manual and Nav manual are written.
End Review
Fix it or eat it, I think the word was to the dealer. It's been a while!
But it would mean to me that you still need to change the oil once a year if driven under 10,000 a year and parked out on the street.
Note: I refuse to keep a high-tech automobile like this out on the street as most probably agree. If you plan to keep this vehicle, I'd keep it in the garage. If it's a lease, you know what that generally means.
50 bucks a whack to change the oil in these machines isn't exactly hay either.
Does the term "Coming or Going" mean anything here?
Car I settled on is an XLE with Convenience Package, full carpeted mat kit (including trunk mat), door edge guards, rear bumper protector, alarm and remote start. (Not an options list I'd personally order!) MSRP was just over $30K.
I was able to pick it up for $260/mo (plus local sales tax = $285) with a total of $1250 out of pocket.
36 month lease with 12,000 miles per year.
For anyone who owns or leases a 2014 TCH, or has spent some time in one: Where are the battery vents in the 2014 model, and how do you feel about their location?
I would like to see them put in a bigger battery for the next time around - I can get about 2 miles of pure electric running at speeds up to about 40 mph, but I need more like 5 miles of electric range to get through the worst of the gridlock.
And my car has the Entune/NAV package, which is absolutely not worth the money. I never use the NAV, my phone is much more convenient, and Entune sucks. Crashes all the time, does all sorts of weird stuff, after six months of trying to make it work I just gave up and now just run the stereo off my phone through the Bluetooth connection.
Love the electric blue color of mine - I think that is just on SEs, as the LEs and XLEs get a darker midnight sort of blue.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)