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Mine is not a 2018 so again but do you use the "enter" button (central button) to select the page then the function you want ?

Not sure but isn't it simply via the "dial" (button and arrows) on the steering wheel ? Left/right for category (i) and up/down to the desire item?

The campaign was then suspended but is back on track. You can check if your VIN is here : https://www.toyota.com/recall (you also may receive a communication from Toyota). But did you had a diagnostic ? The issue may or may not be related to the campaign.

The production of the K313 is still going on, including for the 2019 Corolla sedan which is still unchanged 11th gen (only the hatch is 12th gen with the Direct Shift CVT). But yes, there might be short term production issues. But since Toyota took 3 months to prepare the new campaign, I’m more...

Maybe, if they have to change the solenoid. Poor stock management...

In Corolla, no. In other brands, yes. CVTs still bear the stigma of the first Nissan units only partially because the first batch was poorly executed. North-American consumers simply didn’t get how those trans worked. Nissan’s forums were flooded with “mine has a defect too but the dealer will...

Maybe they did but the car is what it is. Interesting but not that necessary to be technical and explain that, because of the way CVTs work Toyota could have extract x10th s. more but chose to implement fake shift points. And how does a reviewer establish that without any identical unit with no...

Long story short: 2014 to 2017 models with CVT need a firmware upgrade as the current one may allow some premature solenoid wear under certain conditions. A campaign was launch but quickly suspended (bunch of worried posts above :D), replaced by the current one to include diagnosis (and...

Won’t happen. Recalls are for NHTSA safety related issues. Updates can only deal with common issues (like a new phone OS on the market). Corolla’s, actually all Toyota’s and all industry’s head units have too frequent problems but the sources are so varied and multiple despite apparently common...

Wow! The rant! ;) Reviewers review a car as is, not as what it could/should be (which, really, wouldn’t help much the buyers). Like manufacturers, they have to please/attract audience in a market not ready, right or wrong, to accept “pure” CVT. In the case of the Corolla, 20 HP or so less than...

Yes.

Check Jayel above. It is an update, to prevent "abnormal wear" of some parts but if those have already sustained it, Toyota replace them (VBC-Solenoid). The first version of this recall was quickly suspended because it didn't include this replacement.

iM and LE Eco have the Valvematic version (electric instead of mechanical control of valve opening. More mpg and (marginally) more power, but still different in one and the other. There is even more: the version of our engine in the Lotus Elise has 217 hp (supercharged)… Engineering and...

Impossible to establish, since we don't know the algorithm. But a lot of factors comes into play. Why 137 HP in iM vs 140 HP in LE Eco with the same engine ? There is marketing, but engineering also ! Be positive : from 45-70, you're still faster than those who chose the 4AT when it was...

Marketing and reviewers have a part of the blame, but to me it’s up to the consumers to have awareness and know what they need and buy… and what they read. Many reviewers have a bias, conscious or not, toward sporty. Manufacturers will provide higher end or sportier version of a model and most...

Absolutely ! (and less efficient at MPG too). Remember when Williams-Renault's CVT was banned from F1 because the advantage it gave them would have forced other teams to go CVT, then the sound of the show would have been less appealing, according to Mr Ecclestone (sigh !). More than from focus...

2014 LE Eco.

Good news. But 5 hours and a big difference... did your CVT needed the full treatment (update and repair of VBC-Solenoid) ?

CVT may jigger a little under hard acceleration, but at a specific speed is a bit odd. Might also come from something else (from tires to motor mount). The recall is to prevent abnormal wear but shouldn't change the way the transmission behave. Potentially is the keyword. It's not necessarily...

There are two things in what you say. If you're talking about auto mode, it's normal for the fan speed to vary to reach then maintain the temperature set with the dial. It would generally start high then decrease, with slight variation according to outside temp, activating or not "recycling"...