How to access dealer customisation options?

You can buy an obd2 bluetooth and use the carista pro app on your phone
Here's another thread about this...

Carista OBD2 limitations and successes | PriusChat

 

Sounds … perhaps a little too easy hackable?


iPhone ? Pro

 

that sounds great, I'll give that a try ... both my kids have older 10+ years Toyotas, an OBD2 might come in handy :0 ... now having to go and find the ODB2 port in the Prime ...

 

if it's like the 2012-2015 PIP, it's under the steering wheel

 

A no'gooder would first have to get into your car, and plug the bluetooth OBD plug in before they could do any harm.

 

Wait a second ...

You mean to tell me that the owner of a brand new Prime does not have the ability to customize any settings (such as when the interior lights come on or go off, or when warning buzzers come on and go off). The choices to change the settings are (only) : 1. take it to the dealer, or 2. put yourself in the hands of some hacking subscription service ???. The settings often have a mind of their own and can spuriously reset themselves, especially when the battery is disconnected. It happens all the time. What are people paying to have the dealer make alterations to those settings?

I have a 3 year old Subaru, and I can make changes to almost any setting that exists.

Toyota needs to rethink this one ... it is entirely unacceptable to be unable to adjust the setting without resorting to outside help. Often one needs to try several different settings of each option, to determine what works best ... it could take weeks or months to get it right. I can understand that not everyone wants this capability ... let those who want the dealer to do it for them go that route. But there are a lot of owners are quite prepared to do it themselves.

 

can someone post or point me to all the dealer customisation options I can pick from. I did the auto windows down already

 

NO did you know if you hold down the key fob door open button all the window will do down, but again that is only a dealer controled opption

 

Section 9-2 of the manual lists the customizable features. It goes on for pages and lists the feature, give the pages of the manual where it is explained, the default setting, and whether it can be changed from the Multi Function Display, the Nav system, or the dealer. In my manual, it starts on Page 732.

 

Look up Optimus Prime's Prius Prime videos. YouTube channel name is Cloud9 Life. It includes several example of settings you can customize.

One example:

iPhone ? Pro

 

well i thought

respond to your question, there is a thing that plugs in to your car about $35-99 and an iPhone app that you can go in an do the something the dealer can do. change items that Toyota has set as internal options

 

ok, it was not clear what your looking for, still not sure that other get it ether. I would just go buy one, try it and return it if you don't like it. Best buy has them

 

I received my Carista last night, I should have time tomorrow to make the settings mid I want to do, I will update here.
I bought it based on comments on the other thread to which I believe there is a link in this thread

 

Update: Carista HW and SW (iOS) work perfectly. Was able to change the reverse beep and a few other settings no problem. It takes a few min for the app to read the various settings but after that, you'll be done quickly. The HW comes with a 1 month free trial of the app, activated that thru an in-app purchase so just need to remember to cancel that. There are a lot of settings, more than described in the manual but post #3 in the link below has all the screenshots.
Now looking for apps that allow monitoring while driving, ODB2 Fusion claims it works with the Carista HW so need to do some more research as its $9.99 (I'm cheap ...), the free ones don't seem to connect to the Carista
Carista OBD2 limitations and successes | PriusChat

 

Mine came in yesterday too. Barely had a chance to look at it yet though, unfortunately...


iPhone ? Pro