Yes... As with all brand new modern cars you need to go through every possible menu item and make of list of things you'll know you'll want to use later and practice accessing so it becomes commited to memory... This is alot of homework, of more than an hour of sitting in your car going nowhere figuring out how stuff works. People who don't do this will be way more stressed about their vehicle for many years to come. People who do this will enjoy their car much more than others for years to come. Don't be the dumb school kid on the side of the road with problems of their own making simply because they didn't want to do homework.
Maybe someone could post the exact steps on the menus to turn off the sensors? I suspect that is what the OP was asking? I would like to have a quick guide on that myself. KH
You forgot to mention, many things are reenabled when next started, even though there are options to disable them. Toyota nanny knows best, apparently. At least, that is the case on my 2025 Camry XLE with TSS 3.0.
KH111 that is not going to happen! That is the only advise they can give because they don't know the answer but they want everyone to know by their "non" answer they do. LOL. These are the little people. They appoint themselves the forum experts. For the record I have gone through my Owner's Manual and either the answer to my question is not in the manual or I missed it after hours of searching. So I come here only to be told by certain people to read the manual. Experience has taught me to put these people on Ignore if the forum has such or I keep a mental log and never read another post or reply by these self empowered people.
I know it's pain, but I just suck it up. The car wash is so noisy, I barely hear the beeps. For a couple minutes, I can take it. Looking at the manual, starting on page 215, I'm even sure you can disable those alerts. I'm talking about the alerts similar, say, when you're pulling into your garage. Now, you having an XLE, it may have more radars (side), sensors for parking assist, cameras, or whatever. The systems you can defeat start on page 215. You do it from the steering wheel. The funny thing is is the manual says to turn off Safety Sense when going through an automatic car wash, but it doesn't tell you how. Perhaps it's on the web....somewhere. Again, I'm not even sure those beeps for nearby things are part of Safety Sense. The web says hit OK on the left side of the steering wheel. I've tried on the infotainment screen. I'll probably wash the car later and try it.
Okay, I went in and out of my garage a few times. Turning off Parking Assist seems to disable the beeps and screen warnings I usually hear/see in the car wash. You do that with the controls on the left side of the steering wheel. I've hit the X or Mute 'buttons' on the infotainment screen, but the way the brushes move in and out, water spray, or whatever, it just lasts for a few seconds and then it comes back again. Forget about the OK button.
I had a couple of digital-single-lens-reflex cameras: a Canon 5D, and a 5DIII. Both have “menus”. The first has all menu items in a single column. The second seems to have at least double the menu items, and they’re in multiple category columns, you need to first pick a column, then drill down. This process requires maneuvers with various buttons, rocker-pads, hard to remember, master. with the 5D I could get to, and adjust most anything, easily. With the 5DIII, the volume, complexity and dexterity requirements seemed to exceed some “critical mass”: most every time I needed to make an adjustment the tome of a manual was needed, and that was always a journey as well.
