Search results

They are equally noisy to be honest. They use the exact same engines. The only difference is the potential absence or presence of engine covers. Their truck engines are not more powerful. In fact, they sometimes use detuned versions of more powerful engines in their trucks. Like the 3.5 V6...

It is a direct injection engine.

Have you tried canceling auto, setting a manual fan speed and turning off the ?AC option

When climate control unit is in “auto”, it controls when to turn on the AC function. I think you guys are overthinking it.

There is regen in sport mode.

Cruise control definitely uses engine breaking, based on my personal experience.

Yeah, keeping it at auto and lowering the set temperature is the simplest way. If you set the temp to lowest setting, it will blow cold air at max. Generally though, setting it at 65 or so will be more than enough. You can put it out of auto, crank the temp to lowest setting and manual set the...

You can reduce the set tempature.

A/C compressor will automatically turn off if it is not needed. There is also an AC switch on the unit if you want to manually turn it off.

Prius can do #3, it can do it a lot better than LC as well. LC can do actual engine breaking, it is even in the manual. Part of the engine breaking in this case is also coming from the electric motor (regen breaking) depending on how much power battery is willing to accept, and the rest is...

I wish electric motor gauge had an opposite direction to show how much regenerative breaking is being applied. They have this on their regular hybrids where the gauge is split between Charge/Power. It is very helpful if one wants to apply just enough pressure to slowdown or maintain speed...

It is a hybrid, so the amount of regenerative breaking is controlled by the break pedal. So it feels similar to other ICE cars as the electric motor does not create counter resistance unless the brake pedal is depressed. On a fully electric vehicle with one-pedal driving, regenerative breaking...

Sure but it doesn’t change that much for automotive grade leather. Industry standart is 1.2-1.4mm.

Are you sure other cars you had were real leather? Leather to a large extent has the same thickness, as it is an animal product. You can change it’s thickness by coating with vinyl etc, but if it is coated to a level that thickness increases significantly, it no longer is leather. In my...

I mean it is not a hands free driving system. It’s function is to prevent the car to slide of the other next lane if the driver is not paying full attention to the road. As the name suggests, it is an assist system. Driver is still 100% responsible for driving the vehicle. I think a lot of...

There already are 5 threads about it. In my opinion, new threads about gas mileage should be removed.

There already is a non-hybrid 4cylinder (inline 4, not v4) turbo, which will be used for 4Runner. They already listed which trim is coming with which engine, lower trims will come with the turbo I4, higher trims will come with turbo hybrid I4.

And TRD offroad will certainly be turbo hybrid since that is the most powerful configuration for this built. GX550 will probably get a hybrid option as well.

To add a bit more detail. It is not the higher octane fuel that is more efficient, but the fact that a higher compression engine is more efficient. Both types of fuels will have equal efficiency if the engine is designed to be low compression, or if the timing is retarded by ECU to reduce...

An advantage of full time 4WD in low traction loose surfaces like is when we make sharp turns, back tires do not slip and spin and dig into sand. This is a big issue with part time 4wd systems where the back tires can burry themselves into sand in tight turns and get stuck.

Here is another one.

Here is a video from Toyota Japan that used stock Dunlop tires. They look surprisingly capable.

Yeah I think I confused it with the oil pump.

By “it should not overheat”, I mean it is not acceptable that it overheats, not that it will not occur. If the transmission is overheating going up hill on a paved road on the cars own weight, it should have been not rated to tow 6000 lbs, because it will overheat with that on a flat road with...

Regardless of the type of transmission. Going uphill should not cause the transmission to overheat.

I believe water pump is cam shaft driven.

Yeah perhaps they may only work when AC is in heating mode.

Hi all, I have a strange issue with the built in GPS. For the last month or so, nav occasionally loads without any streets shown (please see attached image). If I put in a destination is still sets a route, but only showing the streets the route is going through. This makes me think the streets...