Recent content by c44me

Ted, It's been quite a while since I experienced these problems, however we still have the 4Runner. Curiously, I was just thinking about this issue considering Toyota's current software issues with the Prius... Anyway, this hasn't happened to me for several years now and I believe this...

Lot 4 at Whistler Village has a designated overnight parking area for the Singing Pass trailhead. It's actually posted that overnight parking there is permitted, on the side of the lot near the road/sidewalk. The $5 showers are now $6, and they are at the municipal gym and sports center a...

Well, Mr. Lambdebois, now that you have revived a thread from the past, I thought I'd relate an experience I had test-driving a Porsche Cayenne. I had completed my little circuit with the salesman (who complemented me on never turning on the stereo during the test drive) when I told him about...

We sleep in our 4Runner quite a bit, for one or two nights at a time. In fact, the 4Runner's "campability" is one reason we bought it - it's wide enough, long enough, and flat enough back there - but just barely. I'm 6', 220 lb, my wife is 5' 3", 110 lb. I never sleep stretched out, mostly in...

Sorry to hear about your accident and I'm glad you are OK. I agree with you and other posters that you should look on this as an opportunity, not a disaster! I had a similar experience a few years ago - my 13 year old Porsche 944 was sitting at a stop light and was destroyed by a Cadillac...

I understand what you are experiencing. I've had our '03 for 21,000 miles and 20 months now, and spent the first year trying to get comfortable. I too tried everything, and since I do like to see the turn signal indicators, I find location really dumb unless you can see through your steering...

rando, Thanks for the info, I had read the tranny control was adaptive, I had not heard the ECU was adaptive as well. Do you have any reference to Toyota documentation on how this all works? I have not been able to find anything at all so far, in terms of technical descriptions of this from...

If you have a 4th gen, be EXTREMELY careful with Windex. Windex can destroy the plastic dash surface if you get it on the dash. See pics of my damaged dash in the General Discussions thread: '03 dash material ruined by Windex?

Thanks for the report on ATRAC. It sounds like a very good asset to have in reserve!

Hey, isn't it kinda ironic that dcampen tried to get a pure thread going on HAC and here we go debating some completely off-topic subject :) My two cents on HAC and DAC, is: HAC is totally bogus. It's a Marketing Department invention. In my '03, it does not in any way slow down the vehicle's...

Yes, alpha, I agree the problem with this problem is that it's not a big enough problem :). I've scanned newsgroups for a year and a half now, looking for this issue, and toybox seems to be the only other case I've found that appears to be the same problem. So this particular problem would...

toybox, I have had the same thing happen six times in my '03 V8. The first time, I pulled out onto a busy street to find I was barely moving - it took about 5 seconds to reach 20 MPH, and fortunately I was not rear-ended. Depressing the throttle pedal spun up the engine, to about 5000 RPM...

Hmm, and I thought my continuous whining was entertaining and thought-provoking :(. I'm discouraged to see the bumper damage ratings. However, on the bright side, while hanging out at the body shop I found a recent Consumer Reports with safety ratings, and the 4Runner scored I think above...

I lent our 03 4Runner - The Plastic Pig - to our brother-in-law this weekend. He backed it into a pole or something. It destroyed the right rear light assembly, creased and scuffed the right rear bumper assembly, and bent the right rear quarter panel sheet metal. Now that's Toyota quality...

I turn on my headlights to see the instruments. I like the suggestion of just leaving them on all the time, since they shut off by themselves, however my nervous system has a "headlights off" setting wired into it by now, and I find I always turn them off. Of course, the next problem you will...