mikeambro

WTF Toyota?

posted on 21 November 2008 by (no comments)

Okay, as some of you might know my car more or less exploded and I was in a position where fixing it (again) would no longer be worth it. So I purchased a new car, a Toyota. Well, actually it’s a Scion, made by Toyota though. Right. Now that we got the back story outta the way let’s get to the point. WTF Toyota?

Read the following instructions for changing the radio welcome message:

Changing the Opening Screen

With the main unit switched on after pressing the Power button, once the key is turned from the ACC position to the off position and back to ACC again, “Scion” is displayed as the Opening Screen. Users can edit the text themselves to make another Opening Screen, as an alternate to the default “Scion” display. Up to a maximum of 16 characters can be displayed. The procedure is described below.

Section 1: Moving to “Customize Mode” to Enable Editing read more…

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Go green, Drive a stick.

posted on 5 September 2008 by (no comments)

I just got a rather interesting email from my uncle. We both drive manual transmissions and it seems like we both found this article to be very interesting. According to MSN Money driving a manual transmission will not only save you money but it will save the planet, sorta.

While you are still polluting you are at least polluting less. According to the article a proficient manual driver read more…

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