Rostra Cruise Control install done on MT

[TC-LIFTBACK]

I dropped Rostra an email regarding a group buy on this baby. Looks like the ebay price has gone down to $230-235 shiped for MT/AT.

Let's hope this works out.

Let's get a group buy on this puppy!

-Ben

[OK Yaris]

Time for me to vent. From the Rostra website:

* Toyota dealerships have exclusivity in the following states:
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi & Arkansas
Florida, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Georgia & Alabama
*Toyota dealerships have exclusivity in all provinces of Canada

So those of us in these states must pay dealership prices for cruise control, unless you happen to have a mother-in-law in South Dakota

Mike

[SimmZ]

Originally Posted by OK Yaris

Time for me to vent. From the Rostra website:

* Toyota dealerships have exclusivity in the following states:
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi & Arkansas
Florida, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Georgia & Alabama
*Toyota dealerships have exclusivity in all provinces of Canada

So those of us in these states must pay dealership prices for cruise control, unless you happen to have a mother-in-law in South Dakota

Mike

WTF? You can always get it over eBay or on a web-store, no matter where you live!?

But as I told above, for a canadian customer, take 250$ USD over eBay, then add pretty expensive shipping, then add customs/GST/taxes/brokerage... it's very very near of the 400$ CDN installed on the dealer (when you negociate a price with them)...

[OK Yaris]

Originally Posted by SimmZ

WTF? You can always get it over eBay or on a web-store, no matter where you live!?

No, you can't. These sellers on e-bay and internet sites have specific instructions not to sell to folks in these states. Some will ship to an alternate address though.

[ketel0ne]

A distibutor in Minnesota for rostra at 1-877-402-3944 quoted me $212 about 10 minutes ago on the phone.

[AlexK]

Hey I'm noticing something funny with my car. When I'm cruising in 5th gear (over half throttle) and let off the gas, put in the clutch and shift to neutral, the revs stay up where they were! I'm not talking a few seconds here... more like 30 seconds or more, the revs just sit there at 3000 to 4000 rpms. If I tap the gas a few times it will usually come back down but this is extremely annoying. It does it almost every time. I've been doing this a lot because by using my scangauge I've learned how to get incredible mpg by coasting. Today I drove from Reno, NV to San Francisco (220 miles) and averaged over 48 mpg (speed was 66 mph cruising speed)!

I'm not sure if it's related to the Rostra cruise control or not. I'll have to unhook the throttle connection and see if it still does it. When I find out what the cause is, either Rostra or Toyota is going to hear it from me.

Loving the cruise control for road trips... worth every cent!

Does anyone else's manual transmission Yaris do this with or without the Rostra cruise control?

[AlexK]

Car is getting worse.
Yesterday my Yaris would not respond to throttle at an intersection. I would floor the pedal and the engine just stayed at idle. I pulled over (with difficulty) and fiddled with the cruise control wiring, shut off and restarted the car. Problem gone.
Last night my CEL came one. It returned code P2121 which is "bad throttle position sensor". I reset the code, unplugged the cruise control, and took it for a test drive. Everything is fine with the cruise control disconnected.

The Rostra cruise control is causing the problems. Either I got a bad one or the design is bad. I'm gonna talk to them after the weekend.

[spkrman]

Originally Posted by TC-LIFTBACK

I dropped Rostra an email regarding a group buy on this baby. Looks like the ebay price has gone down to $230-235 shiped for MT/AT.

Let's hope this works out.

Let's get a group buy on this puppy!

-Ben

now, this is something that I would like to get into :)