10K Oil Change Letter & Black Boxes?

I just visited Toyota's 'MyToyota' website and downloaded the maintenance manual. It now indicates oil changes every 10k miles; all other service intervals appear to remain the same as the Manual that came with the car.

David W.

 

1. Everyone else has received them as indicated in this thread, so maybe yours are an late arrival or got lost in the mail. Call Toyota if you still haven't received them in a month or so. But you can still download the revised maintenance booklet from your owner's site and it's just as official.

2. The one that works after an actual collision, unless you consider the hybrid computer a form of black box. Now don't think about pulling a Sikes lest the latter gets you trouble

 

I received the updated maintenance booklet at least a month ago--you can call Toyota customer service and ask them to mail you another one. Plus, as previously mentioned you can download it from their site.

Most modern cars have data recorders. The manufacturers are very secretive about what data is captured and how long it's saved.

One example is a few years ago when I had a serious engine issue on a Porsche, the told me their data recorder saves lots of data related to your driving habits (if and how many time the engine hits the rev limiter, for example), and they can use it to deny warranty claims if you've abused the car.

For Toyota, when I went for a test drive with my Prius with the shop foreman earlier this week, he mentioned that they can see if you're a 2-footed driver (they can see if you ever had the brake and accelerator pressed at the same time). That's one example, and he said Toyota corporate was diagnostic equipment that can see data they can't with their shop equipment.