Last September, Mozilla came out with a privacy study indicating that the auto industry was the worst tech industry the organization tracked. Mozilla found that not only does the industry hoover up…
I was about to say the same thing! Still hanging in there, 233k on it and hope to go a few more years. Weirdly enough it’s a base model car and does have Bluetooth, but only for phone calls not audio. It also has a key fob which I think is funny because neither of my wife’s cars (a 2006 Lexus and a 2015 Toyota highlander) even have that.
I had a key fob but it accidentally went through the washing machine lol I had to take the battery out because it kept setting off the alarm every 5 minutes
I got one of those Bluetooth transmitters that plugs into the lighter so I could listen to music from my phone!
Haha, wow, I did the same thing. It randomly went off after that twice before I did the same. I ended up waiting weeks for it to dry completely before trying again, and it worked fine after that, thankfully.
I tried at least 3 different Bluetooth solutions as well but none lasted very long. My car keeps the plugs active even when not running so I was never able to keep it plugged in. A few of them the dongle that plugs into aux just broke or needed to be wiggled after some time and so I just gave up. I just went back to straight aux cable to usb c and has been ok for a bit now.
One thing I need desperately is a new exhaust, outside that it’s running pretty good.
I let mine dry completely and it just did nothing, so I popped it open and replaced the battery and it worked ok but it would set off the panic alarm at random times so I just use the regular key now
I was about to say the same thing! Still hanging in there, 233k on it and hope to go a few more years. Weirdly enough it’s a base model car and does have Bluetooth, but only for phone calls not audio. It also has a key fob which I think is funny because neither of my wife’s cars (a 2006 Lexus and a 2015 Toyota highlander) even have that.
I had a key fob but it accidentally went through the washing machine lol I had to take the battery out because it kept setting off the alarm every 5 minutes
I got one of those Bluetooth transmitters that plugs into the lighter so I could listen to music from my phone!
Haha, wow, I did the same thing. It randomly went off after that twice before I did the same. I ended up waiting weeks for it to dry completely before trying again, and it worked fine after that, thankfully.
I tried at least 3 different Bluetooth solutions as well but none lasted very long. My car keeps the plugs active even when not running so I was never able to keep it plugged in. A few of them the dongle that plugs into aux just broke or needed to be wiggled after some time and so I just gave up. I just went back to straight aux cable to usb c and has been ok for a bit now.
One thing I need desperately is a new exhaust, outside that it’s running pretty good.
I let mine dry completely and it just did nothing, so I popped it open and replaced the battery and it worked ok but it would set off the panic alarm at random times so I just use the regular key now