scratchhax
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My wife was following me home tonight and asked me "what are you doing to make your brake light flash that way" which of course immediately had me imagining bad ground wires, dying relays or loose bulbs. Turns out the 3rd brake light flashes 4 times before coming on solid in my 2019, I had no idea. That got me thinking about other little quirks and tidbits that I've been discovering on my rig since I bought it in August and thought it would be fun to share a new 4runner owners "huh, that's interesting" list.
1. That brake light flashes. nifty!
2. You don't have to hit the brakes to start the car, take it out of gear or really for any reason beside stopping the vehicle.
3. The ebrake is it's own set of drum brakes. Maybe this is more common than I know, but it's new to me.
4. The car isn't a hermetically sealed rolling computer, you can actually do things like (gasp) replace the radio and still be able to control your air conditioner!
5. The fender liners can make sounds that lead you to believe that you either have marbles in your head liner or you are receiving alien transmissions on your dashboard speakers.
6. If you don't have the gas cap perfectly sealed, the computer will disable traction control, MPG economy display, light up damn near every light on the dashboard and in general do everything to make you believe that you just killed your new car.
7. Somehow, the entire body and interior seem to be held together with only pop clips and nothing rattles or falls off. Seriously, how in the hell did they do that?
8. In general, there is a single wire you can tie to ground to override almost anything. Want to run your inverter at 400w all the time ? ground a wire. Want your locker available all the time? ground a wire.
9. I thought I would miss all the driver assist features that our forester has, but the only one I really miss is auto headlights. I'm so used to it that I've become the jerk you flash to let him know he's driving in the dark.
Overall pleased as punch with this little rig, GG toyota!
1. That brake light flashes. nifty!
2. You don't have to hit the brakes to start the car, take it out of gear or really for any reason beside stopping the vehicle.
3. The ebrake is it's own set of drum brakes. Maybe this is more common than I know, but it's new to me.
4. The car isn't a hermetically sealed rolling computer, you can actually do things like (gasp) replace the radio and still be able to control your air conditioner!
5. The fender liners can make sounds that lead you to believe that you either have marbles in your head liner or you are receiving alien transmissions on your dashboard speakers.
6. If you don't have the gas cap perfectly sealed, the computer will disable traction control, MPG economy display, light up damn near every light on the dashboard and in general do everything to make you believe that you just killed your new car.
7. Somehow, the entire body and interior seem to be held together with only pop clips and nothing rattles or falls off. Seriously, how in the hell did they do that?
8. In general, there is a single wire you can tie to ground to override almost anything. Want to run your inverter at 400w all the time ? ground a wire. Want your locker available all the time? ground a wire.
9. I thought I would miss all the driver assist features that our forester has, but the only one I really miss is auto headlights. I'm so used to it that I've become the jerk you flash to let him know he's driving in the dark.
Overall pleased as punch with this little rig, GG toyota!
Thanks for that!
