I hate this damn seat belt alarm enough to be crawling under the dashboard this weekend and cutting it out.
1. If you place anything weighting a few pounds onto the passenger seat the alarm goes off. (it thinks a person is sitting in the seat)
2. You rest your arm on the back of the passenger seat the alarm goes off (it thinks a person is sitting in the seat).
I'd like to take a chainsaw to the friggin dashboard everytime it goes off.
The most crappiest cup holders I've ever seen. They're not even the same size and they are in the worse possible location. The back seat cup holder is a flimsey awkward screwup of a design. ( I miss my 94 corrola cup holders.)
The plastic used in all the panelling in the car is so easily marred and scarred it's ridiculous. My car is only two months old and looks like it's been in a war from all the things that have brushed up against and come into contact with the the inside door panels.
The pathetic gear ratio in the TRD with it's stupid oversize 17inch wheels makes it hellish to get up inclines from standing still. The car shudders and is a challenge to prevent it from stalling because the gear ratio is so high for first gear. I'm going to be getting rid of these wheels and getting 15inchers.
Buckle the seat belt.
Cups and bottles come in different sizes. I use the appropriate holder.
Put heavy, sharp cornered items in the luggage area where they belong. Use the tie downs.
In the relationship between power and fuel economy, the Matrix was designed for economy.
It sounds like you didn't choose the car that fit your needs but some of your problems can be addressed.
I don't get it. If I regretted buying a car and hated it so much...uh, I'd trade it in already?!
Didn't you test drive the thing? Most of your complaints probably wouldn't be revealed until you actually put it to use but complaining about the 17" wheels and gear ratios would've triggered your alarm at a test drive.
A knucklehead ran a stop sign and destroyed my corolla. I had 3 days to get another car before my free rental car ran out. A drive around the block test doesn't provide someone with all of the variables about a vehicle. The car has good height, good visibility out all of the windows and cargo space is great with the back seat folded down. That is the main reason why I bought it. The sales rep says "it detects whether someone is sitting in the passenger seat and will turn on the other air bag accordingly blah blah to save money so it doesn't deploy if no passenger is present". Little did I know later how that feature would drive the driver insane.
I think reverse beep is only for the Prius...I have a standard, so I don't really know. Do the same thing as you would for the seatbelt, but instead of clicking and unclicking your seatbelt, shift the car from park to reverse and back.
That little odometer button does a lot...I know you can reset the service light with it too. (Instructions for that are in the manual.)
I think reverse beep is only for the Prius...I have a standard, so I don't really know. ......
The 6 speed XRS has the reverse beep because reverse is over an up to the left and one could mistaken being in reverse when you really wanted 1st gear.
The reverse beep is a little trickier, but by removing the dash and cutting the appropriate wire, the beep is easily stopped. No chainsaws were used in the process!
I did it easily, and I have never had my dash apart before. There were excellent instructions around on this group somewhere, complete with pictures. The instructions were for an 04 XRS, but mine is an 05 and the wires are the same colour and in the same location. If I find the instructions, I will let you know.
yeah there's a crap load of how to's to do to your matrix. I've done the clutch pedal bypass so now it starts up like an auto. and the foglights turn on w/ the cornerlights and all lights stay on even w/ the highbeams. You can dismantle the reverse beep and i'm sure the seatbelt buzzer since there is visible markers anyway.
locate the clutch pedal and find the contact point when u press on the clutch. There should be a harness at that location, disconnect the harness(which should be hanging now) and cut a piece of wire and connect it to both ends of the harness(which is called a jumper) and bam no clutch pressin' auto start.
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