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No worries. If someone gets upset at something a Random Internet Stranger writes, that’s not on you. Probably a topic for them to discuss with their therapist. A forum like this will have members of many different ages and backgrounds - so your post elicits many varied views and...

Same. Life’s much less stressful living within one’s means. My personal vehicle buying metric has always been to never buy more than I could pay off in four years or less. And then keep it longer, continuing to make “payments“ into an investment account. (and I too worked in my teens - my...

You say this like it's the first time we've seen high inflation and/or high interest rates... It isn't. I'm younger than some of the others - but old enough to remember the high inflation and high interest rates in the late 70's / early 80's - where the monthly mortgage payment was at one...

Bzzzt. Wrong. Median home price in Q3 1976 was $44,400, and median family income was $14,960. Interest rates can't be ignored either - ratio of mortgage payment to household income was 53% in 1981 compared to 31.4% in 2024. (Need to look at median not average. Averages get skewed by...

Yet not impossible, especially if you can get a promo rate such as Southeast Toyota's current 2.99% 36mo promotional rate right now, and three year CD rates are as high as 4.32% that assumes excellent credit, and of course if one's willing to take some short term risk, something like QQQ...

$650/mo into investment account - I paid off my 3rd gen in late 2020 and kept making "payments" When I buy a 4th gen, I'll finance or pay cash depending on financing rate vs. investments return on the money I've put away.

It shouldn't be using enough power to make any difference. I've had an aftermarket cellular remote start/lock/unlock/status in my 3rd gen for years and it's had no noticeable impact on battery. Now it's possible Toyota's software is doing something to use a lot of power that my Viper...

Fuelly will likely be best since you tell it the exact amount of fuel purchased. Then the only real question is odometer accuracy, which is easily checked. .

How can best MPG be 8.2 and average be 16.2?

It's in the Warranty and Maintenance guide. Here's the PDF version from https://www.toyota.com/owners/warranty-owners-manuals/ and for what it's worth, I've put 100k miles on my 3rd gen using the 10k / 12 month oil change spec.

I’ve only test driven them, back to back hybrid and non-hybrid 4th gen. So take the following with a grain of salt. Main things I noticed were that the hybrid exhibited no turbo lag, while the non hybrid had a little bit. Hybrid seemed more responsive, with instant power availability. Not a...

@UsedToBeANissanGuy Nice! Off-road Premium, yes? Hybrid? My aim is a hybrid OR Premium with just a couple options. Rest I’ll buy and bolt on myself. I keep vehicles a long time, so it’s important to get exactly the config I want.

What galls me is that Ford includes the equivalent of Remote Connect for free. No charge. Im sure they pay a minimal per vehicle charge for the limited data usage of remote status / lock-unlock / start. Though I pay $70/yr for a third party version of Remote Connect on my 3rd gen so the $80/yr...

Not all brokers are the same, so don't let your presuppositions cloud your view. Jim Rouleau is a broker with a solid history of great reviews. See Facebook and LeaseHacker. Reviews thread. He brokers purchases as well as leases. Yeah, I think people outside of GST and SET just don't...

Yeah, the octane stuff can be confusing. Especially since there are different measurements and some countries use an average of them and others use just one. More info - perhaps more clearly conveyed - at Wikipedia And yes, any of these gasoline threads can be summarized with the advice to...

I think you've misunderstood the research octane number reference. Octane is determined by two different methods - Research Octane Number and Motor Octane Number. MON tends to run about 8 points lower than RON. In North America the pump octane number is the average of the two and you'll see...

Although I live in Georgia now, I lived up in snow country until my 30’s In blowing snow or fog, you want your lighting to be as far off of your view angle as possible. The lower the better. I would not add lights to the hood except for pure decoration

Thanks, yes the picture quoted is very similar to the low-fuel notice I get on my 3rd gen. Though that one doesn't go away without pressing the back button as you describe. It's helpful to know the PKSB alert does self-dismiss - sounds like minimal annoyance level (beyond the WTF of how...

Thanks - does it pop up that warning every time when disabled and is any action needed or does the warning self-dismiss?

Sorry to bring back the thread, but I'm curious how annoying this is on a day to day basis? I'm looking to move to a 4th gen OR with the premium package, and I've typically just left my 1Up single-tray on my 3rd gen since I tend to use it a couple times a week.