Lane change signals

i noticed this the other day and then of course looked in the manual afterwards. At first I didn't think it was much of a feature, but have to admit I find it very convenient. At least for the 2017s we have lane change signaling where your blinker will stop after 3 times automatically, just tap the blinker stick instead of pulling or pushing all the way like when actually turning. Page 204 in the manual

 

I had mine changed to 5 flashes. IMO 3 isn't quite enough for most lane changes.

 

How did you get it changed to 5? Stealership programming?

 

2016's have it too. It is convenient, but 4 or 5 blinks might be more useful. Or maybe I switch lanes too slow

 

Yea how'd you do that? Is that setting in the entune system?

 

Setting in entune

 

Welcome to 2005...now if we could just get push button starters

 

Yup..Techstream. Dealer gave me a list about 3 pages long of setting adjustments they could do, I choose one.

 

Hmmm I've never seen it in there. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right places. I'll check again.

 

I used the Carista dongle to set mine. It also worked great to turn off my seat belt chime.

 

My f150 had it, blinked 3 times not towing a trailer and 5 times if you were pulling a trailer

 

My 2014 impala had that before I traded it in, good ton know

 

Yeah my old truck did it before too

 

I cranked mine up to 7 blinks with the Carista app.

SB

 

Do you have to buy the pro package in app to do that?

 

They should have made a least 5 for courtesy reasons, 3 is like..."hey i'm gonna cut in front of you NOW"!!!

 

Does it really matter, nobody uses turn signals anyways

 

Good point

 

If don't have the Entune system, you have to have the dealer configure it. I had mine set to 6 blinks. My 2015 Lexus RX350 allows you to set it yourself along with several other settings that only the dealer can set on the Tacoma. I also asked the dealer to set my driver window to "auto up" in additional to the factory "auto down", but they forgot to do it. I guess they were concentrating on applying the lastest transmission TSB and checking the fluid manually as I asked. I'll have the window programming done on my next routine service visit.

 

Dunno. I can tell you I had to buy the pro package to turn the damn seat belt alarms off.

SB