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Is Subwoofer suitable with Toyota RAV4? Is it possible to upgrade?

  • December 29, 2017
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Hi, I'm not sure if I post in the right thread, but I still want to ask something.
I have just purchased a used Toyota RAV4 2006 for sale [LINK REMOVED BY CYBEREALITY] from a Japanese platform since September as my birthday gift for myself. Well, I'm not a rich man .
It runs smoothly and in good condition, however, I'm not really satisfied with its audio working, it does not work very well as I expected. I am thinking about getting the factory Subwoofer for my car, is there anyone used the factory set up? Is it worth the money? I don't like a woofer that will blow my eardrums out.

Has anyone else acknowledged this problem? Many thanks in advance for your suggestions.
    Best answer by flibberflops

    I think that the general response to this thread has been
    very poor. Please except my apologies on the behalf of everyone else. To correct
    matters, please find my advice on the problem….


    I recommend that you contact Toyota directly and open a
    case. Please don’t try to phone them as no number exists. Also expect to create
    a totally new userid and password to log your case because for some reason your
    standard Toyota id (which you use all the time) doesn’t work.


     Once you log your
    problem be prepared to play a marathon came of “ping pong email” against
    someone who’s speaks English as a second or possibly a third language. Don’t
    forget to occasionally point out your consumer rights along the way (you will
    need too).




     Eventually (if you
    haven’t lost the will to live) you will be randomly asked to submit of video of
    the sound problem occurring. Be aware that all efforts to point out that such a
    video is pointless will without doubt fall on deaf ears. Then despite your expectations
    of continued time wasting… when you eventually submit a video of piss poor phone
    cam video (which doesn’t explain the problem any better than your previous
    explanations) they will unexpectedly get your repair authorised (unless of
    course you live in outside one of the ten countries that Donald Trump can name
    from memory).




     You will then be
    asked to bundle all the cars paperwork, manuals, keys & locking wheel nut
    adapter back into the original packing that you purchased the car in, to send
    it back to Toyota (hope you kept it all in the loft!). Don’t even bother asking
    about the extremes of returning the whole thing for just a small fault… parts
    and spares are not an option. Also, don’t concern yourself about the amount of
    time you will be without a car while it is returned to Japan… they certainly
    won’t be.




     However, do be
    concerned about how pissed the UPS guy will be when he sees the size of the box
    he is collecting. At this point, try not to punch the guy because you have
    waited in all day and he turned up at the very last moment.




     After a mere wait of
    2 weeks, prepare to be surprised when you get sent a totally different RAV4
    (they have a policy of just swapping out… in the most inconvenient way feasible).
    Spend the next few weeks suspicious that the replacement has a worse windscreen
    than the original (but no-one will believe you)




    Hope that helps?







    25 replies

    Honored Contributor
    January 3, 2018

    Roaster said:

    Didier?
    Reminds me of the time we were having a kick-off meeting at a project, and we were introducing ourselves one by one.  The guy to my left said his name was Didier, so I said Hi. I'm M.A.C.



    Blimey, I had to think about that. Time for another cup of coffee
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    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018
    Missing your mod status are we kind sir?
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    Honored Contributor
    January 3, 2018
    It has its pros & cons elboffor. I have a real big issue with being advertised at though, especially when it's so badly targeted as spam usually is... the scurge of the Internet. Anyway, Happy New Year!
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    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018
    Itll not be long before adverts are in our dreams. 
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    Inspiring
    January 3, 2018

    I think that the general response to this thread has been
    very poor. Please except my apologies on the behalf of everyone else. To correct
    matters, please find my advice on the problem….


    I recommend that you contact Toyota directly and open a
    case. Please don’t try to phone them as no number exists. Also expect to create
    a totally new userid and password to log your case because for some reason your
    standard Toyota id (which you use all the time) doesn’t work.


     Once you log your
    problem be prepared to play a marathon came of “ping pong email” against
    someone who’s speaks English as a second or possibly a third language. Don’t
    forget to occasionally point out your consumer rights along the way (you will
    need too).




     Eventually (if you
    haven’t lost the will to live) you will be randomly asked to submit of video of
    the sound problem occurring. Be aware that all efforts to point out that such a
    video is pointless will without doubt fall on deaf ears. Then despite your expectations
    of continued time wasting… when you eventually submit a video of piss poor phone
    cam video (which doesn’t explain the problem any better than your previous
    explanations) they will unexpectedly get your repair authorised (unless of
    course you live in outside one of the ten countries that Donald Trump can name
    from memory).




     You will then be
    asked to bundle all the cars paperwork, manuals, keys & locking wheel nut
    adapter back into the original packing that you purchased the car in, to send
    it back to Toyota (hope you kept it all in the loft!). Don’t even bother asking
    about the extremes of returning the whole thing for just a small fault… parts
    and spares are not an option. Also, don’t concern yourself about the amount of
    time you will be without a car while it is returned to Japan… they certainly
    won’t be.




     However, do be
    concerned about how pissed the UPS guy will be when he sees the size of the box
    he is collecting. At this point, try not to punch the guy because you have
    waited in all day and he turned up at the very last moment.




     After a mere wait of
    2 weeks, prepare to be surprised when you get sent a totally different RAV4
    (they have a policy of just swapping out… in the most inconvenient way feasible).
    Spend the next few weeks suspicious that the replacement has a worse windscreen
    than the original (but no-one will believe you)




    Hope that helps?







    Honored Contributor
    January 3, 2018

    I appreciate you're being helpful @flibberflops, I'd say this forum has members that are more helpful than most and you're a good example.


    Unfortunately in this case it's a spam post. The OP has posted the same, or very similar question on many different forums and message boards within the last week, many sites completely unrelated to the topic in question. The clue is was the weblink that normally gets picked up by the spam filter but if the OP posts a few things on the forum first, they then get through the filter. They're getting sneaky! I've listed some of the sites in my previous post so I really think this thread has served its purpose and should be deleted.

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    HiroProtag0nist
    Honored Contributor
    January 3, 2018
    Another one.

    Swines!
    Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3
    January 4, 2018
    So how does forums.psychcentral fit into this spam thing?
    Participant
    January 9, 2018
    @flibberflops Thank you so much for your suggestion and I appreciate your helpful answer.
    I don't know why everyone is so sensitive like that, I just asked a question in Off-Topic, it means no-related topics, anything you are interested to discuss, why is it called spam? A new topic, a different topic to discuss, is it wrong? Or I misunderstood the rule for the Off-Topic thread "A forum for all off-topic discussions"? 
    Participant
    January 9, 2018


    Another one.

    Swines!


    Please do not say bad swears like that. We are all human.

    @DaftnDirect If you don't like my post or you don't know the question, you can ignore it, I post the question in the Off-Topic thread, it is not wrong. I have the right to do it, why can't I ask different people?