Looks like the subscription model is expanding and now includes Toyota. It's an $8/month fee for their Connect app which lets you remote start your car. I know this is for all new Tacomas and Tundras and possibly other Toyota models also.
Looks like the subscription model is expanding and now includes Toyota. It's an $8/month fee for their Connect app which lets you remote start your car. I know this is for all new Tacomas and Tundras and possibly other Toyota models also.
In reply to WillG80 :
Entirely apart from my general aversion to subscriptions for car functionality, $8/mo seems steep for the amount of functionality involved there. I mean, if every berking aspect of life is going subscription, that's a sizable chunk to add to the tally.
Unless we are talking about the purchase of a small amount of Mary Jane in the front seat of an old van,
WillG80 said:Looks like the subscription model is expanding and now includes Toyota. It's an $8/month fee for their Connect app which lets you remote start your car. I know this is for all new Tacomas and Tundras and possibly other Toyota models also.
Volvo has a similar thing, but I think it's $5 a month.
The salesman looked bored asking if we wanted it and wasn't even remotely surprised when we told him where Volvo could stick it.
The workaround is really simply.
1) Remove the seat, find the leads for the seat warmer, snip them, strip them, solder some new flying leads to the seat heater, route them to a relay/fuse, and a combo switch, and you're gucci. It's not complex at all. Hell Amazon and eBay have standalone wiring kits for aux lights that would work for this that cost like $15 and come with an inline relay and fuse. It's a really easy way to defeat the subscription process for something simple like that.
2) What is everyone using as alternatives to lightroom and photoshop? I got tired of paying the subscription fees as well but also hate GIMPs controls.
I'm still surprised BMW went with this plan again after their CarPlay subscription feature failed epicly.
Peabody said:Slippery said:How does BMW know the car has been sold?
The same way Sirius/XM knows when I buy a used car and sets me up with a free 90 day trial.
Douche move? Yes, but somebody will find a work around
State DMVs share a wealth of information with the manufacturers typically for recal purposes (i.e. Takata airbags).
When I was in the Reserves and would get activated, somehow the bank and credit card companies got wind of this. Came to find out that sort of info has to be disseminated under the SCRA so you can be protected from financial institutions and lenders being shiny happy people while activated/deployed/etc. Some financial institutions are actually cool about it. I had the interest rate on one car payment cut in half for the time I was activated.
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