that sucks man. sorry to hear that. They should be able to give you a discount on the alarm or some type of compensation for their error.

 

Wow what an ordeal and makes me re-consider putting one in my LE V6.

Nothing than wish you luck.

 

I feel for you man, I have the VIP alarm in my 07 SE, it goes off if you open the door like it's suppose to, but the Glass breakage sensor does not work and the beeps when you lock and unlock the door are missing, but the car still runs.

The sad part is, I heard that the "alarm" is just an $400 activation from their scan tool to the ECU. No real parts installed other than the glass breakage sensor if you get that option.

I think they should at least give you a courtesy car. you should ask for that.

 

Over here in Hawaii, many of the dealers (Toyota included) have a wholesaler install their reverse sensors and alarms. I talked with a lady there and all it is - is a DEI alarm that links up with the factory remotes. They signed a contract with the dealers here not to install alarms that hook up with the factory remotes to retail customers.

So - you'd lose the "beep beep" and have to go with silent arming/disarming or a chirp.

 

I already told them [the dealer] that I won't be taking my car back to them and my family has been dealing with this dealership for almost 20 years. They didn't offer me anything...

 

Damn mein sux. I know it's hard not having u'r brand new car to drive for so long.

 

I wonder what is different from the VIP remote start I had added to mine as a port installed option/ It works like a charm.

 

interesting, remote start is big bucks on the 07 Camry isn't it? Maybe my toyota stealership technicans are not trained yet, or they had the wrong software for the magic scanner. It may take some time but I will find out. :disappoin

 

I'm not talking about remote start, I'm talking about the VIP alarm...

 

i hope they gave you a rental car preferably another 07 camry since they fucked up

 

Got the car back about an hour and a half ago. After breaking what turned out to be an electrical harness and the car sitting in the shop for over a week I got it back. The alarm works perfectly, I don't think I have glass breakage (haven't tried) and the dealer and Toyota corporate got me all taken care of. This was the actual Toyota VIP RS3200 alarm, not an aftermarket one. The beeps are still there. Toyota corporate is going to comp me, what I don't know, for being so patient and having the car gone so long.

I'm sorry for those of you that have been having problems with the alarm install from the dealer, they had to call some corporate tech's out to help them since they hadn't done one on the new '07's yet... but it's done.

 

Glad to hear that the alarm works. Gives me hope that my alarm will be fixed one day. I also got the VIP RS3200 alarm. I gave my service dept. manager the benifit of the doubt but he has not called be back in two weeks. Monday I'm calling and will be playing hardball. Toyota Corperate will be called tues ...etc.

Evan I hope they do right and give you perhaps a extended factory warrenty for free and some other freebies too.

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