Recent content by Allen

2014 Pearl with Tony Williams Jademo. 55K miles. Reads about 85 miles on 80% charge, however I have Michelin Defenders on it so maybe not the most efficient tires. New motor at about 5 years. Super quiet now. I'm hoping at some point someone makes a longer range battery pack of some kind. No...

Ouch, if I had realized it wasn't covered under warranty I think I might have thought about it harder but it wasn't clear until after it was replaced.

Was about 3-3.5 months but I have my new motor and it's whisper quiet. However, during the process they bent my driver side door window frame. I didn't discover it for a few days. I actually suspected my car had been broken into in the dealer but they said maybe they closed the door on a...

I asked about a year ago whether I should take it in. Forums recommended yes but I waited till the sound was undeniable. Took it in almost 2 months ago. They gave me a rental car for about a month and a half but then called me back and said "the specialist said it's drivable and the motor is...

Very helpful guys. I'll contact my dealer.

I see you are in a similar situation to me. You got your car a few months earlier and added a lot more miles. How bad did your motor have to get before they would do anything? Was it one of these "keep complaining so there's a paper trail" kind of issues?

I don't drive a lot of miles each day and I'm only around 37K miles but despite never really driving my car hard, my motor is making that whirring noise. I did purchase an extended warranty. Question is, when should I worry and how hard is it to get Toyota to do preemptive repair? Are they...

Thanks Mike. Guess I'm stuck for a few years.

I just got some new tires for my Rav 4 and the milage dropped from around 95-98 to around 88. It was a pretty immediate drop as well without any reset on my part. I bought them because I saw a lot of people on here getting them. Was this to be expected? Or did I get the wrong style of...

The videos are not of my car but of other instances people have caught on camera. BTW, a Hong Kong group recently took it a step further by digitizing the signal so they could send it much further distances and did it with about $15 devices on both ends. One solution is to turn off proximity...

I remember it being a giant pain in the butt the first time I signed up for it. As it was almost always useless when I actually wanted to use it, I didn't renew.

While charging at a Whole foods in Redwood city a guy walks up and says "I worked on your car." Turns out he was an ex-engineer from Tesla. I don't think he had seen the JdeMO before but one interesting thing he said was that the reason Toyota didn't include fast charging, and likely why most...

I kept mine as well. Probably lost some money also. I have my original battery which does between 98 and 101 on the regular charge, as high as 115 on full charge. I was looking at Teslas and my brother took a look at the Bolt. Neither was a replacement. It also would have cost me to get...

One issue I was discussing with miimura a few weeks ago... Related to keyfobs but not your spare key. I've had my car broken into twice. Both times I'm sure it was locked. It's always broken into in front of my house where I am sleeping. I now (when I remember to) put my keys in a stainless...

Hi Mike! We met at the EV fest a few weeks ago. I need to email you and James about the ebikes. I did claim it the year I bought it but was not able to take the whole $7500. Since everyone always quotes the $10,000 rebate ($7500 Fed+ $2500 CA) I was wondering. My friend said he was able to...