24 hour dash clock option? / color bar missing in backup camera. help?

As I understand it, the "distance bars" on the backup camera are only available on the v5. Don't have them on my v3 and wish I did.

 

Does seem odd that the distance bars aren't available on the lower trim levels. I guess the overlay is done by the parking assist feature?

I don't know if I've ever seen a car clock with 24 hr display. Maybe something in luxury brands or European/Asian spec?

 

You're probably correct... It needs those sensors to determine distance.

 

No bars on the V3, only V5.

http://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/om/OM47784U/pdf/sec_03-05.pdf

Page 316 in the manual makes no mention of a 12/24 hour option. I think I have owned only one car a Dodge Intrepid which had such an option on the factory clock. None of my 4 owned Toyotas have ever had this option.

 

The GenIII hatchback has it. You turn it on in the display menu.

 

Its marketing folks, so accept it. Several trim levels, different items to persuade you to buy the upmarket version. I don't expect the same features on a Prius as on an Avalon. Sure Toyota could. But their research says that isn't the way to maximize profits.

I suspect the profit margin on the packages that make up the higher priced trim levels is double what the profit percentage is on the base. They have every incentive to keep the base low and upsell you into the higher priced packages which may contain 10 things two of which you might want. The rest are just there to make the list long and justify the price difference.

Now had the dealers had 5s on the lot and I had driven one, I just might have bought one instead of a 3. As much as I read the sales literature, I couldn't see the cost benefit to ME. (You might have a different opinion.) Had I experienced the benefits, I might have made a different choice. So to me that is bad marketing because they never gave themselves the chance to persuade me. I've seen only one 5 on the dealer's lot in 6 months.

 

My V5 does not have the rear guides, thankfully.
They just get in the way and obscure an already limited view.

I had a rear camera installed in my C4 and intentionally by-passed the guide option.
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I have a v3 with no guides. But what I did was to put a bumper-height box 1 foot, 3 feet, and 5 feet away from my rear bumper, and made little marks on the SIDE of the screen bezel on the dash, so I'd have a good approximation of how close I was to a car behind me when parking.