Disappointment!!! with New Corolla Touring Sport

[Annoyingcorolla]

I have the same problem - a 2024 Corolla that is driving me nuts with the constant pinging. I called the dealer 20 minutes after leaving the showroom and said if this can’t be turned off I am ready to bring the car back. I am in dispute with the dealer as I test drove two corollas and was told they were the same specification, but they didn’t “ping”. I would not have bought the car knowing it doesn’t shut up - it’s just irritating and distracting. Also my infotainment system isn’t syncing with the My Toyota app’ - the car shows as “status unknown” in the app. The dealer can’t seem to resolve it. Previously had a 2022 Corolla for work and really liked it. The 2024 version is ruined by the unnecessary alarms. 

[Dylanfan]

On my 2019 Corolla, the only thing I turn ON, on every journey is the brake hold, and that annoys me. As for the speed limit system, well it just doesn’t work. Signage is c**p and therefore it can’t work. School signs with recommended 20mph between certain times that don’t have an exit sign are just one example. If you come into my town past the school, the car thinks it’s 20mph until you next go out the town😡 if my car kept bleeping all the time I was in my home town, well enough said!

[sportse]

Yes, will have to be turned off every trip by me in any newer Toyotas that my 23. 

not too bad to disable it on my 23, but a pain to do every trip (I had to to that with lane departure ‘assist’ on a recent Honda , as did many other owners)

Right press of left dial

Ok to open settings 

3 up presses

Ok to switch off RSA

Back arrow

left dial press

[VanHiggy]

Couldn't someone at Toyota have come up with a... "Hey Toyota, turn off the RSA function". Or "Hey Toyota, set RSA to visual only". But no, that would have made life too easy. 😏

[MC1216]

52 minutes ago, VanHiggy said:

Couldn't someone at Toyota have come up with a... "Hey Toyota, turn off the RSA function". Or "Hey Toyota, set RSA to visual only". But no, that would have made life too easy. 😏

Or go along the Mazda route and have a button that switches it off.

[trashman1965]

41 minutes ago, MC1216 said:

Or go along the Mazda route and have a button that switches it off.

But is that the case on latest model year? 

 

https://www.mazdaworld.org/threads/speed-limit-alerts-cannot-be-disabled-anymore-on-eu-my-2024.341464/

[MC1216]

18 minutes ago, trashman1965 said:

But is that the case on latest model year? 

 

https://www.mazdaworld.org/threads/speed-limit-alerts-cannot-be-disabled-anymore-on-eu-my-2024.341464/

Sorry just to clarify Yes you have to switch it off every time you start the car BUT instead of going through a menu it's a simple button just to the right of the driver so so much easier.

[Annoyingcorolla]

Mine just resets itself. My 2022 Corolla just has a visual waning, the 2024 car pings again after each ignition start. I asked the dealer to swap it for a 2022 car they have and refund the difference but they expect me to accept a £3500 loss on a car with 350 miles on it. Lots of platitudes about customer satisfaction but really they want to make a second profit from an unhappy customer. 

[sportse]

4 hours ago, MC1216 said:

Sorry just to clarify Yes you have to switch it off every time you start the car BUT instead of going through a menu it's a simple button just to the right of the driver so so much easier.

I've heard that one manufacturer allows disabling the warnings as part of a custom drive mode - so you just have to flick the drive mode to custom after every start.

Much easier than fiddling with menus.

[newda898]

1 hour ago, Annoyingcorolla said:

Mine just resets itself. My 2022 Corolla just has a visual waning, the 2024 car pings again after each ignition start. I asked the dealer to swap it for a 2022 car they have and refund the difference but they expect me to accept a £3500 loss on a car with 350 miles on it. Lots of platitudes about customer satisfaction but really they want to make a second profit from an unhappy customer. 

So they should accept a £3500 loss on a car instead?

[anchorman]

On 3/14/2024 at 5:03 PM, davejones22 said:

I love my 2023 Corolla, but would never, in a million years, buy a car with an enforced speed limit warning that couldn't be switched off with an easily accessed, specifically assigned button.

If manufacturers wish to continue selling new cars to people, they will have to provide a solution to this new "safety feature" - and that is to provide a button rather than digging around in menus. I rarely exceed the speed limit, I always drive safely to the conditions and I drive defensively. I don't mind the lane assist (which essentially forces people to indicate when manoeuvering) & would positively encourage any warnings when you drive too close to the car ahead at speed.

I draw the line at a car howling at me for going 1mph above the speed limit.

I am fairly certain that the vast majority of the general public will agree with the above, and it will be a "deal breaker" for these people when considering a new car. 

But of drama Dave, it doesn’t howl at you it beeps.  I have a bit of a set up procedure on every drive which I’ve usually done before I leave my driveway.  Auto hold on, lane departure off and I suppose audible speed warning can be added to my pre flight checks.  Pita, I agree but it’s all down to the huge amount of people that can’t drive, we all have to be mollycoddled.    

[Saxmaniac]

I wonder if there's a low tech way to cheat the system, tape over the speed sensor camera? I don't suppose techstream has some way to disable or even miscalibrate deliberately so that car thinks speed limit is always 100 mph? 

[Parts-King]

30 minutes ago, Saxmaniac said:

I wonder if there's a low tech way to cheat the system, tape over the speed sensor camera? I don't suppose techstream has some way to disable or even miscalibrate deliberately so that car thinks speed limit is always 100 mph? 

Even if there was such a thing, you would be on dangerous ground as these things are a legal requirement, imagine the insurance consequences in the event of an incident 

[Saxmaniac]

Yeah you're probably right. I've got an Auris and the number of times the car wants me to slam on the brakes for no reason, I'm glad the car doesn't brake automatically. In the few cases where it's been necessary to brake sharply, the system did nothing of course! I'm sure these safety systems make things more dangerous not less 

[sportse]

5 hours ago, Saxmaniac said:

I wonder if there's a low tech way to cheat the system, tape over the speed sensor camera? I don't suppose techstream has some way to disable or even miscalibrate deliberately so that car thinks speed limit is always 100 mph? 

For now, you can go into settings every time you start the car and turn off what you don't want on the 24+ models. I used to have to do this on a Honda hybrid. After a while you get used to the combination of button presses and can do it without looking (but not on the Honda, as one of the buttons was down by your knee.)

Unfortunately, they plan to stop this at some point in the future. The accelerator will be linked to what the car thinks the speed limit is, and you can't go above it unless you press it to the floor for an emergency override which sounds alarms.

[taxidriver50005]

Its not going to be a problem for long, as all new cars will have this system and even if yours doesn't you will get stuck behind a car that is going well under speed limit to avoid all the warning chimes... Might as well embrace it it's coming anyway. 

[Nobby Clarke]

Hi ,I have no problem at all with my 23 plate corolla GR Sport 1.8 touring sport  automatic  great features  ,road sign recognition system and the speed limit indicator just changes to red if you go over 

[Paul john]

26 minutes ago, Nobby Clarke said:

Hi ,I have no problem at all with my 23 plate corolla GR Sport 1.8 touring sport  automatic  great features  ,road sign recognition system and the speed limit indicator just changes to red if you go over 

Lol. Normal behavior

[davejones22]

I had a MY24 Corolla as a courtesy car a few weeks ago whilst our MY23 was in for its first service.

The constant beeping is actually even more annoying than I thought it would be. There are multiple times on my regular routes around the area where the speed limits are incorrectly detected, resulting in distracting and unecessary beeping for long stretches of dual carriageway. Straying 1-2 mph over the limit whilst driving with the regular flow of traffic also results in frantic bonging.

It was probably the most irritating "feature" of a car that I've experienced in the 25 yrs+ I've had my license. And I've owned some pretty awful cars!

The irony was that I was almost certainly driving within the limit the entire journey (given the error I see on my own corolla with the same wheels), and looking for the menu option to turn it off almost certainly increased the probability of me being involved in an accident.

I can say with 100% certainty that I will never buy a car with this enforced feature until I'm left with no alternative. We will keep our corolla for 10 years or so and our second car due to be changed next year will have to be a pre-24 model too. Kicks the can down the road for 10 years at least.

I'd strongly urge anyone considering a new Corolla to look for a nearly new MY23 face-lift instead.

[Dylanfan]

You should be able to raise the speed limit at each setting (30,40 etc) by 2-3 mph in the menu settings to give you a bit of leeway. 
I think the idea of these warnings may be good BUT the road signs are crap and they can’t by picked up correctly by any car system.

[TrackLink]

It must be quite annoying but I imagine that going through the required sequence to turn the audible speed alert off before starting each journey would become second nature after a while. I was certainly lucky to dodge the MY24 updates in my late ‘73 plate Corolla.

[Mojo1010]

Got a 23 plate Yaris so it's cool. Had a 24 plate Aygo X when my car went in for a service. Drove 7 miles X2, home and back to dealer, the speed limit beep is super annoying! My goodness! 

It's not about being seconds/minutes quicker on a journey, straying over the limit 1-2 mph here and there is normal on a drive. Zero chance I would buy a 2024+ car in the future if it cannot be coded to display visual permanently. 

[sportse]

You do become used to the startup sequence of buttons to disable systems. It’s a pain though as it adds time to the startup, and the systems are now designed to require more button presses. 
 

I had a new Honda for a year that had dangerous lane departure assistance that would try and drive you head on to oncoming traffic because it thought you were too close to the kerb. 
 

every single time I drove it, I had to first disable the system. It involved several menus and button presses, but at least the first menu could be called up with one button. 
 

you can do that on the Corolla by having the settings on the screen, but you are driving round with a giant settings icon right in the middle of the dash all the time instead of something more useful. 

[forkingabout]

It just needs some smart person to develop a device to automatically disable all the annoying warnings on start up.

Once seatbelt is fastened & D selected the device could spring in to life.

Its likely just going to require a load of button sequence commands sent down the CAN. 

[MC1216]

As i have said before although this is new legislation for 2024 it's the way different car manufacturers adopt it.

By law you are allowed to switch them off but some companies like Toyota and others make it difficult.

Many like Mazda Ford and BMW plus many others allow it to be switched off via a simple one button press (Mazda last button top right)...hopefully Toyota will make it easier if not lets hope for Carista or OBD11 to find a work around.