Toyota’s remote range requires a subscription of $ 8 per month

On the contrary stuttering among other owners, Toyota’s remote operation costs $ 8 a month, The Drive they find. This article is applicable for 2018 as well as future models, but it was soon revealed when the free trial of Toyota Remote Connect began to expire.

Toyota allows you to start cars like Price of RAV4 PHEV away in two ways. One is on WiFi / LTE using its Remote Connect software which costs $ 8 per month or $ 80 per year. The other is to use the key fob, which requires you to be close to the car.

Unless they had read the good notes, the owners would probably not have known that the fob method was also part of Remote Connect logs. Toyota has confirmed that The Drive that you will need a paid registration for each 2018 and new Toyota model in order to use this function.

What makes things even more difficult is that many consumers received a free three- or 10-year trial of Remote Connect depending on whether they had options for Audio Plus or Premium Audio trim. As a result for the first three years of ownership, the long-distance fob approach would have worked without a hitch – but it is now ending in 2018 models.

The issue was first seen at the car dealership CoPilot last summer. The owners are very disappointed that Toyota has connected the remote control system to Remote Connect, as the main fob does not require software in any way. What would be most interesting is that the border does not apply to cars before 2018, because Toyota did not want to change them from 3G to LTE networks.

Toyota is not the first automaker to charge higher prices for a car. Mercedes as well requires registration in Europe for rear-wheel drive in its new EQS electric car. And after you charge the buyers a stupid for the moon for Apple CarPlay, BMW backward and includes a free form.