Toyota bz4X

Very comprehensive review …thanks

Surely if the sport model is not affected (only the premiere) those cars could be released soon. Very disappointing if we have to wait until later or even the new year.

I was told mid Aug - late Aug after the recall was announced and never received any email today about further delay.

How disappointing for you Bioscaller…..thanks for the update….what a mess this has been !

Rang several Toyota dealerships in Dublin and Meath... none of them have any delivery date info including my own Ashbourne dealer. They pretty much all said they're not been kept in the loop from Toyota Ireland.

So if it is Japan and delayed would it take about 6-8 weeks to ship a car once the fix has been made…..but with shipping delays that could be even longer…..I can’t pull out because the resale value of the car promised by Toyota that I’m trading in will probably reduce in 2023 but I think it probably is a good idea to get the 11w onboard charger and other perks of the 2023 model…….so disappointing ….

Sure it's the same with my old diesel corolla, it's going to lose some more trade-in value by January 2023, and if the delivery does get delayed beyond August then I'm changing my order to the 11kw one in the Premium edition and I actually want it in the navy rather than the precious metal colour.

At least then I know on the day that I'm driving it off the forecourt I'll be 100% happy with it.

But if by chance it does get delivered between now and the end of August I'll take it as it is.

And very soon the Ariya is going to come with 22kW AC as standard…..

so using an eCars AC22 thats 0-100% in less than 3 hours for the 63kWh version, and 4 hours 0-100% on the 87kWh version…… that’s a huge advantage over the ID.4

It might be worth the wait.

I can see delivery dates at this stage getting pushed out beyond August and well into September or even October.

If id known this I would have waited until 2023 to order…..still hoping they can find a fix and ship the new parts …surely Toyota want this sorted so they don’t have to continue paying for rental vehicles for the 200 owners in the US….

Toyota's upcoming solid state battery technology can reportedly charge up to 1000km's in 15-20 minutes.

Who exactly is pressurising Toyota and why ?

Are you saying there is no issue with the wheel nuts?

Thanks for the update.

That pretty much confirms what the real issue is.

Toyota issued a notice to all owners to park their cars and not use them. Dealers arranged collection and provided free loaner cars.

I'm not sure where the other poster is getting their information.

Apparently so, but Toyota do have very high Q.C standards anyway and this whole recall is really just a precaution thing. In reality, they probably could have actually released the cars and there probably wouldn't have been a single reported incidence of the wheel nuts actually loosening or any wheels actually falling off as all the test and demo cars released to the press and media never had any issues and lot of the auto reviewers who drove the BZ4X a lot of them drove the shite out of them for their youtube channel reviews - and none of them had any issues.

Yeah, something like that will probably happen, but I heard that the fix is actually going to be replacement bolts rather than just an extra hard tighten of the current bolts. If you happen to be one of the few lucky ones who has their BZ4X on their driveway at the moment, then I wouldn't have any issues with doing some easy/gentle local drives with it - popping down to the shops etc is probably totally fine... but your car insurance could be void if you happened to have any kind of traffic tip or accident as an insurance company would only love not to pay out on a vehicle that you were made aware of not to drive.

It would totally kill me to have brand new car on my driveway and not be allowed to drive it. It would be like getting a new train set for Christmas and then be told you can't play with it till maybe the springtime.

Could you ask those taxi drivers for Tuesdays Euromillions numbers? As they must have an incredible cry ball to determine that what Toyota have done in the past with ICE cars will translate into their new BEV…

wait til they try and DC charge it more than once per day………. And in winter!!!!

The Bz4Xr3i will not be Tesla killer… (Or the next Tesla killer as every year there are 2-3 ‘Tesla Killers’ released which don’t even get in the same conversation with Tesla, never mind kill them!!

it’s Vauxhall conference vs the Champions League

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You are very bullish in your views. One car is not going to wipe out all the others. You have to be connected to Toyota in some way or else just a fanboy. No one car is going to corner the market or put anyone else out of business.

It will sell well if Toyota decide to produce it in numbers as Toyota has a good reputation and lots of goodwill with customers, but its not a special car in any way, particularly the EV elements of it, which appear to be poor relative to the competition.

And where is that coming from? Have you any references? It is not true. Maybe you meant SUV, not EV?