What would be your dream vehicle?

Sounds like the Avalon. The Avalon also ghost presses the touch sensitive buttons and will turn on or off, or up or down the climate controls without any input. It's very annoying.

Interesting. When I press the voice button on the Avalon it's allways by accident. Then for the next 5 minutes I'm trying to figure out how to turn it off.

Maybe I should try using it, but seeing how the navigation is out-of-date and inputing addresses manually has stopped working and I can't connect any phones via Bluetooth anymore either because that is also broken I have no idea if it voice activation will work correctly. But I won't know until I try. I've only owned this car for 5 years now, I'm still trying to figure it out. The only steering wheel button I've figured out how to use is the one that changes the menu stuff below the speedometer.

I do have the menus set to Spanish, but not everyone in the family speaks Spanish and not everyone speaks English either... Why can't we just have a non-prejudice car that doesn't require drivers and passengers to know one certain language? And where's the ASL option??

 

2013 Avalon Hybrid. The infotainment center has been fixed once already. It's integrated into the dash as far as I can tell and the AUX and USB ports and shows the Hybrid info too. The USB also no longer works for audio on a thumb drive which it did originally. I haven't tried the other apps like iHeart Radio as I just never have used those apps before, I just use the CD player and FM and AM radio. There's also Sirus (or is it XM?) radio, but I think I'd need a subscription or something which I don't have.

Like I say, I found out the previous owner had fixed the same issue a year or so before I bought it. But then it acted up again about a year after we got it and I haven't bothered to have a dealership or mechanic look at it, except one mechanic in town who said he couldn't fix it. I also tried fixing it myself by disconnecting the 12V for several hours and pressing all the buttons and stuff like that to try to reset it but nothing has worked. Iv'e tried googling it and looking up YouTube videos to no avail. It's been like this for the past 3 or 4 years and since it's apparently going to just happen again after getting fixed at a dealership which I'd have to drive several hours to reach I've just given up on the idea of fixing it.

D a r n it! How are blind people supposed to drive in these fancy new cars!

 

Ya I saw another report about that. I don't think that will apply to my iPad mini 2. I don't have any other Apple products besides the iPad mini 2 which I still use.

 

How do we know another unit would fix the problem? When the problem happened, there was also a glitch in the guage panel, namely it lets me choose menu with the car in motion that before couldn't be chosen. A lot of what happens with the infotainment screen seems to also be linked to that, but is the opposite, not allowing me to make changes even with the car stopped and in park.

Here is an eBay listing for the part:

2013-2014 Toyota Avalon Radio CD Gps Screen Navigation OEM 8614007010 | eBay

 

Ya well, with the exception of the Nissan Leaf that ALSO had problems with the infotainment system and I took to a dealer to fix and they said they couldn't fix it, none of my previous cars had Bluetooth, nav-systems, voice activation or the like, Therefore not having them work on this car hasn't been a big deal. In reality, I'd rather just not have these features on a car; they are in no way selling points to me for getting a new car. If I end up needing a new car and have to decide over two cars, one that has these kinds of features and another that doesn't, I'd be more inclined to get the car without them.

This is especially true with me doing 20,000 miles per year or so. Therefore, even if I buy a brand new car, while the powertrain may still be under warranty after nearly 5 years the infotainment system will likely be out of warranty after less than 2, long before I even pay off the car.

Now if there were a 100,000 mile warranty on the infotainment stuff, then I might be a bit more interested. But when you buy a car 5-year-old car at 50,000 miles, drive it a year and the infotainment system stops working correctly, it makes me want to cut it out and install a normal stereo like we had back in day and then just make some nice looking stained wood trim to make it fit in. I'm not sure how I'd integrate the HVAC controls though...

 

It's a 2019 ZR1 Corvette for only $145,260.00 US dollars.