3 Things That Annoy Me About Toyota iQ
August 14, 2009 at 8:40 am
I’ve been driving the Toyota iQ three weeks now and I’ve come up with three annoying things:
- Over anxious petrol alert – there are four quadrants on the petrol indicator thing. As soon as it reaches the last one, it flashes! Flashing indicates to a user that there is something immediate and urgent that needs to be fixed. Having a quarter of a tank of petrol is not immediate or urgent.
- Over sensitive passenger seat. I am unable to fling my handbag on the passenger seat beside me because the car thinks it’s a person sitting there without a seat belt and it bleeps to express its disgust. I’m not into oversized handbags, I carry normal ones. Admittedly I carry a lot of shit around in them, but they do not weigh the same as a small person. Toyota – please adjust the weight settings. OK, so maybe I shouldn’t be putting my handbag on the passenger seat in the big city (thanks Grannymar for pointing that out!), in that case, the 2nd most annoying thing about the iQ is the horn. If the horn of the iQ had a voice, it would sound like David Beckham! That’s not the kind of voice you need when you’re snarling at big cars who cut you off. Or when you’re giving drivers nodding off at the traffic lights a little nudge to move on.
- Not sensitive enough indicators. A lot of turns I take don’t result in the indicator being switched off automatically. I know that my old car switches off on these turns because they’re ones I take every day. I just have to remember to turn off the indicator, and that’s another thing. This may have something to do with:
But I am loving the fact that in the Toyota iQ I have become a Master of the 1 Point Turn!
This car is so small in length, you can do a complete about turn in a single lane! If you, like me, often try to take a nifty shortcut and end up facing the wrong direction, you’ll love this! No more endless driving looking for a suitable side street to turn around in. Now you can simply do a sharp turn of the driving wheel and be facing the other direction in one go.
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Comments (3 responses)
I am following avidly your Toyota iQ saga.
My worry…. You drive in Dublin with your BAG ON THE PASSENGER SEAT! OK, I am out of Dublin for 32 years, when I have a bag it is tucked in behind my feet well out of sight.
Yes Grannymar, I know I’m just asking for trouble… I did think that as I was writing it. You’re right. Perhaps I should replace point 2 with the fact that the horn is honky enough? It’s a seriously non-aggressive, non-in-your-face horn, which let’s face it – is not what you want driving in the mean streets of Dublin.
Pity about the horn factor of the IQ, at least you can bend it becks like round streets broad and narrow. Does that make the MX posh?
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