Are Connected Services necessary?

[badlywornroy]

Collecting my Corolla Touring tomorrow. Just setting up My Toyota app.

I guess ' Standard Services ' are useful, however I question if I need ' Remote Services ' are they partly responsible draining the Battery ? 

Thanks.

[sportse]

No issues with the Battery on mine, with all services activated. The longest I've left it is 10 days.

In the winter I use the remote start feature every day as I drive in early mornings with ice covering the car.

[Cyker]

Not "necessary", car will still work without them. Never bothered activating them on mine. You just cant access whatever features they provide.

 

[yossarian247]

ISTR someone mentioning on here that the car still communicates with the server just as much whether you activate the services or not, so if  they are responsible for Battery drain they still will be regardless?! 

[badlywornroy]

1 hour ago, sportse said:

No issues with the battery on mine, with all services activated. The longest I've left it is 10 days.

In the winter I use the remote start feature every day as I drive in early mornings with ice covering the car.

I can see that the connected services can be useful for you. We are retired so are unlikely to find ourselves in that situation early morning.. 🙂

[badlywornroy]

13 minutes ago, yossarian247 said:

ISTR someone mentioning on here that the car still communicates with the server just as much whether you activate the services or not, so if  they are responsible for battery drain they still will be regardless?! 

Be interesting to know if that is the official Toyota line ?