Recent content by BloomRAV4_EV

He's not asking about any kind of cross-country road trip. LA to Big Bear is 95 miles, well within the range, but there's a huge change in elevation as you climb the mountain (to 6750 feet). Supposing you wanted to drive from Denver to Colorado Springs, how much would the climb impact your...

Wow. I remember the joke being that Fiat meant Fix It Again, Tony (and Ford being Fix or Repair Daily, etc. etc., it's not just an import bias), but wow. I've had my RAV4 for just over a month, now, with no mechanical problems at all. Will crack 2000 miles on my way to work (should already...

I hope. According to the SiriusXM website, my account has the data added to the 90-day trial. The rep at the dealership confirmed with the person on the other end of the phone that said data trial would be extended to three years, but there's no hard evidence that has been done. Looks like...

Wow, even better than anticipated! I hit the dealership at about 6pm, stopped for a car wash after that, and the car is now charging after its 117 mile day (with 25 miles of range remaining, it thought). I'm not as dead tired as I thought I'd be, and I'm glad I stopped at the dealership...

Page 238 only says that you can get the radio ID from "CH 000", and refers you to page 190. Page 190 didn't make it immediately obvious to me that I had to get through steps 4 and 5 from page 191 to tune to channel zero ... I kept hoping it wouldn't be 3 menu levels deep, and that there might...

Add me to the list of people with this issue. After reading the thread and noticing (but ignoring) a while back that my traffic data had vanished (miimura, no warning of any kind, just noticed that hey that information isn't displayed anymore), I went through the screens and discovered that it...

It's all done. I'm going to have to adjust the alarm system, I think. Hopefully the LoJack registration will be ready to roll tomorrow and then it'll really be done, and not just installed. The reverse beep being a single beep will also take some adjustment, but man is that nice.

Yeah, but nothing motion sensing. I'm not entirely sure why I opted for it, it's two weeks since I made that call, but it's an "improved" alarm (that I hesitated over for quite a while). I got LoJack Early Warning, in which case I get a text if the car moves when I don't expect it to. That's...

We've got both, 2013 model years on both. Same Aerovironment 30A portable charger charges both. I've put over 600 miles on "my" RAV4 in the two weeks since I bought it, and I haven't checked the odometer on "her" Leaf but I know it's seen near daily use despite the rest of the family being on...

I was annoyed by the turnaround time (as well as the length of time it took them to return calls), but it looks like everything is finally a "go" for next Tuesday. I don't know what the hold-up was and I'm not really interested in their excuses; as long as the work is done well, I will be a...

Looks like I jumped in elsewhere without formally introducing myself. We "went solar" last summer, with an eye towards getting electric vehicles down the road. Now that the solar panels are paid off, it's EV time. Last month the minivan continued to act up, which seemed like a sign to pull...

Tony, thanks. Already started the application for the rebate, knew to have my accountant (still weird to use that phrase) do the taxes, and will definitely apply for the sticker once I have my plates ... but I'm not holding my breath on the plates. We bought a 2013 Leaf a month ago and don't...

OK, then I'm probably not being unreasonable. Then I'll become a demanding customer. :) That rebate was the bulk of my "down payment". Sales tax sucks here, and the stuff they haven't done yet padded the bill. Quite sure. I couldn't tell you how the VINs are assigned, it seems like a big...

OK, I have to ask. I bought my RAV4 EV on July 4. Told the wife I was going to declare my independence from gasoline. Yeah, I'll keep my day job, that's fine. I went to the dealership, found the Shoreline Blue Pearl they had on the lot (checked around dealer websites first to see what was...

Well, that's no fun. I'm guessing that'd be totally unavailable, or visible only through the Tesla OBD (-ish?) port, which I haven't tried plugging into yet. Older navigation system, is that also with older maps? I'm saddled with maps / POI info from: It's newer than the nav info in the 2012...