Entune

[Mood]

Hi

Hello to everyone

I got prius excel 2016 one week ago.I tried to register to Entune but it showed msg telling me that enter correct VIN even i entered the correct letters and numbers.Now i start to think that my car is not supporting this apps.It let me down.how can i know if my car is capable to entune app or no. by the way my touch screen is 2 go and it does not have apps button.or maybe entune is not approved in uk.
Thank you

 

[BhxTrev]

Hi Nouri,

I've had my Prius Excel for over a couple of months now & I was quite enthusiastic about all the new features offered by Touch2. However, I struggled to get along with many of the features it offers & after contacting Toyota UK I was told that my iPhone 6 was incompatible with the system. They said it wasn't Toyota's fault but Apple's! Why didn't they come clean & mention this before I purchased the car? After that I've given up on using most of the features that the system offers. I use the basic satnav, radio & even using a USB memory stick with CD tracks in separate folders, the system simply doesn't recognise individual folders, which contain tracks from one artist/group & seems to play the tracks alphabetically. Please don't get me wrong, I'm delighted with the performance & many of the fantastic safety alerting features on the car but I can tell you as long as the 17inch version doesn't have a spare wheel option I will never buy another Prius & will probably drop this vehicle early to buy some other hybrid that does have a spare! Oh & by the way please don't remind me I could have bought the 15inch wheel version with a spare. I already know that but I prefer the 17inch wheels. It's simply Toyota not listening to wha customers want & they are probably going to lose me as a customer next time round!

[Heidfirst]

Before you bought the car did you ask/check about iPhone 6 compatability? & it may very well be Apple's fault.

So, why don't you just buy a spare (either spacesaver or full size steel or alloy) separately? It can be done.

 

[PeteB]

I find playlists work very well on my Excel.

I used to think they were difficult to create, but that was only because I wasn't patient enough to find out that the T&G takes a few minutes to recognise them the first time use USB stick is inserted with new playlists on it.

I create mine on Windows media player then drag it onto the USB stick.

I actually tested my (Samsung) phone during my test drive and it works fine with everything except emails and calendar (which I don't want to use anyway).

[kithmo]

I think Entune is a USA thing.

[barrycoll]

I am on the cusp of ordering an 17" Excel, and have a space saver from my 17" Gen 3.....

Now I believe that Kithmo has had his dealer fit the space saver into the available wheel well.

Is that right Keith, does your spare  now sit flush when all the polystyrene jack support etc is removed????

If the answer is Yes, then I will stick with the larger wheel, as it looks pretty good in white in the showroom......but if it will not boilt down accurately into the threaded fitment in the wheel well, maybe I should settle for 15"s, although the appearance is a bit !!!!

 

[Devon Aygo]

On 21/11/2016 at 7:37 AM, Mood said:

Hi

Hello to everyone

I got prius excel 2016 one week ago.I tried to register to Entune but it showed msg telling me that enter correct VIN even i entered the correct letters and numbers.Now i start to think that my car is not supporting this apps.It let me down.how can i know if my car is capable to entune app or no. by the way my touch screen is 2 go and it does not have apps button.or maybe entune is not approved in uk.
Thank you

 

Entune is a US only feature, not available in the UK

[kithmo]

5 hours ago, barrycoll said:

I am on the cusp of ordering an 17" Excel, and have a space saver from my 17" Gen 3.....

Now I believe that Kithmo has had his dealer fit the space saver into the available wheel well.

Is that right Keith, does your spare  now sit flush when all the polystyrene jack support etc is removed????

If the answer is Yes, then I will stick with the larger wheel, as it looks pretty good in white in the showroom......but if it will not boilt down accurately into the threaded fitment in the wheel well, maybe I should settle for 15"s, although the appearance is a bit !!!!

 

If you get the 3 pieces of polystyrene foam, 2 surrounding and 1 to fit on top of the spacesaver wheel to replace the current gunk set, then the boot floor is raised about 2" higher, this actually makes it just about flush with the folded down back seats. These new foam pieces are very expensive, roughly £200 each apparently, according to my dealer who got them for me as part of the deal FOC. The wheel well is only shallow so with no foam the spacesaver protrudes above the floor, i.e not flush.

Some owners in the US have fitted the space saver in the existing foam by cutting a big hole for it, the boot floor stays the same height then. See pics below of the hole cut mod. In one picture you can see where the owner has put some sound deadening stuff under where the spare fits. 

[barrycoll]

Thank you so much Keith.....so it looks like it is do-able, either with a bit of expense, or a bit of imagination and a Stanley knife.

It seems a shame to let the hard fought -for space saver go, when I sell the Gen 3, especially as any new owner would only expect a can of gunk.

Having had another look at the car in the show room, I am quite disappointed that even at Excel level there is no height adjust on the passengers seat, even though the Auris has one.And the seat is quite low compared to the windscreen height

Getting older means not having to squat quite so much is a need rather than an luxury.....who ever decides on these little money makers needs a good slap on the back of the legs

 

[PeteB]

31 minutes ago, barrycoll said:

...who ever decides on these little money makers needs a good slap on the back of the legs

 

I suspect it's as much to do with saving weight (to help meet emissions targets) as cost, which is why space-savers were thought up in the first place (so named to make owners think they were doing us a favour!) and then no spare at all - just gunge that might work 50% of the time when needed.

[barrycoll]

If you order 15"s Pete, do you still lose the useful storage area that the Gen 3 has above the spare wheel well???

What do the alloys look like under the wheel covers on yours......worth exposing them or not???

Must order next week for March delivery, but going through online discount agent.....but decision/decisions

One wonders whether, when VED goes to £140 for the Gen 4, whether discounts will widen, as orders dry up for a while

 

 

 

[PeteB]

Hi Barry

Yes, still lose the under floor space.  I've asked my dealer if you can buy a false floor (I did for my last Yaris - made it level when seats folded, tidied up main boot, and made it much easier to get my folding eBike in and out).

I've never seen them, but I think they are black.  If I can prise off the cap easily, I'll take a picture later.  Personally, I like them - Toyota tell me the main reason they're there is to help the 15" Prius (sounds like a toy!) achieve it's top 10 most aerodynamic production car status (Gen 3, top 5 Gen 4) - part of the reason the 17" ones have a CD that's so much worse (but mostly the extra width).  Also, it is cheaper to buy a new cap than a new wheel (or a refurb) if it get kerbed.

My Gen 3 had pristine caps after 60,000 miles, but despite my careful slow speed and monitoring when using the (usually excellent) auto park feature twice when moving forward to straighten up after reversing to an inch or two of the rearward vehicle, it very rapidly applied full left lock and hit a rough, high kerb, making a nasty mess  of the NSF wheel trim.  

I'm up to 8,000 miles now, so first service likely early Jan - I'll get a new trim put on then.  Now I always drop the left mirror and creep very slowly with my hands on the wheel.

I've always though people place an irrational weight to the VED when choosing a car - several people I know chose diesel versions because of it, despite doing totally inappropriate journeys and I proved to them that they are actually spending more then they would with the petrol version.  A friend has just done the same - he normally does just 3,000 miles a year, almost all very short journeys.  He is shocked to be getting worse mpg than his old petrol version!

[PeteB]

BTW did you see the pics of my illuminated scuff plates?  So cool and everyone comments on them

http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/topic/174775-treated-my-prius-gen4/?do=findComment&comment=1426320

[barrycoll]

Yes, you are right, Pete, one gets mesmerised by VED costs that have no bearing when it comes to Depreciation....even a few mpg here or there have little influence on overalll costs.

Apropos the wheel choice, it would be very interesting to see a quick pic of the a naked 15"-er, as it were......it might even go viral.....

interesting about the wheel covers creating less drag than the open option, but again in the larger scheme of things, and with the new more compliant suspension, the whole wheel thing seems like another red-ish herring

Your scuff plates are quite dramatic, and should be on the Toy Options list, as it is quite easy to justify all sorts of flippances when ordering from new, but much more difficult  later on.

I am still waiting to see if  some black Film options become available for the White-ware....but nobody has come up with anything as yet

 

[PeteB]

28 minutes ago, barrycoll said:

...Your scuff plates are quite dramatic, and should be on the Toy Options list...

they are!  I listed them from the accessories section in the configurator, printed it off and gave to my dealer when I originally ordered the car, who obtained them from Toyota and fitted them.

Will do my best to get a photo tomorrow, but been a bit busy as I was in a hotel all last week while I had my old kitchen ripped out and a new one fitted.  Major job to get everything back into the new cupboards now as house belonged to my late parents, and I have to consider for each item whether to use, replace, give away, sell, discard &etc.

[kithmo]

One of the advantages of the 17" wheels on mine is that the Toyo Nanoenergy tyres have a huge rim protector on them, I've caught a kerb in a similar situation to Pete when parking and clipped a kerb with the back wheel when slowly manoeuvering around a tight corner and in both cases, not a mark on the rim and the mark on the tyre rubbed off with my finger.

[Harters]

I noticed that on the demonstrator I took out, it was the biggest rim protector on a tyre I have seen.  Fingers crossed mine has them when it arrives 

[Heidfirst]

On 26/11/2016 at 8:54 PM, kithmo said:

One of the advantages of the 17" wheels on mine is that the Toyo Nanoenergy tyres have a huge rim protector on them, I've caught a kerb in a similar situation to Pete when parking and clipped a kerb with the back wheel when slowly manoeuvering around a tight corner and in both cases, not a mark on the rim and the mark on the tyre rubbed off with my finger.

I have a strong suspicion now due to personal experience (3x) & a friend's (2x, Peugeot 508 SW on 19"/40 series) that at least on 45 series or lower we are now trading rim damage for tyre damage & tyre replacement on an 18", 19" etc. is considerably more expensive than an alloy refurb. I also suspect that this is from pothole damage rather than kerbs - the rim protection flanges sticking out are being caught & ripped which can expose the cords etc.. Luckily I have found a local company that can do vulcanised repairs cheaply (they mainly do commercial tyres).

[kithmo]

3 hours ago, Heidfirst said:

I have a strong suspicion now due to personal experience (3x) & a friend's (2x, Peugeot 508 SW on 19"/40 series) that at least on 45 series or lower we are now trading rim damage for tyre damage & tyre replacement on an 18", 19" etc. is considerably more expensive than an alloy refurb. I also suspect that this is from pothole damage rather than kerbs - the rim protection flanges sticking out are being caught & ripped which can expose the cords etc.. Luckily I have found a local company that can do vulcanised repairs cheaply (they mainly do commercial tyres).

I know what you mean, I've had tyres with rim protectors in the past that were little more than a triangular strip of rubber sticking out from the sidewall, that tear or split at the slightest nudge, but there's not a mark on these tyres after clipping the kerb, these rim protectors are very thick and the tyres are very tough. I think it helps that the tyre profile on these (and the Gen 3) looks to be narrow for the wheel width and hence the sidewall is at an angle rather than parallel to the wheel face.