Hey Nokh88,
thanks for the note and will try it tonight. I can confirm that headlights will turn on (with AUTO is selected) when you start the car up.

This is normal, when you switch off the engine, the headlights will be off after like around one minute. If you didn't switch on the engine whilethe head lights switch is on off position, and you turn the switch to Auto, then the lights will never on until you start the engine again and the environment is dark enough to on the head lights.

Right! thanks for the confirmation but it's best to test out and confirm mine works as explained

Went to the tyre shop to claim my bulging tyres. The rep says it is safe. The other tyres too are bulging. Finally the rep says there were a batch around the time I bought the car had this problem and that I should have brought in before 5000k and can claim all 5 tyres but I didn't know about the bulging until at 20k when I rotate the tyres (according to the manual). Then he said the service centre should have check.

He said if I want to claim all 5 tyres, I will have to buy 5 new tyres and pay the difference, based on the thread left on my used tyres but I don't like this Continental tyres. I find them too noisy or is it just only me?

I am in a dilemma. Anyone have any suggestions? And what other brands of tyres can be considered?

Yup.....the continental during new quite silent.... NoW mine already reaching 12k mileage is quite noisy.....heard that yokohama advan db is very silent...

The rep said all new tyres are quiet and all worn out ones are noisy. He has taken one of my tyres to claim. I have also sent a complain to Tan Chong.
Thanks for your recommendation.

Actually not all tire is silent when new, only certain tires are very silent compare to other, for example the Michelin Premacy LC, Yoko Advan db, Continental CC5......, and these tyres will slightly get noisier when after driven like 10-20k km, but still at controllable level, unlike those cheap tyres or sport tyre, which when new the noise already, but still can accept, but when driven 10-20k km, the noise level will become very loud.

Just got my car back from TC, after more than 10 times i sent my car to service, they finally fixed it! Here are my list of problem just for all of you to refer to.

1. Car vibrating at 140kmh. (all 10 services also got complain)

2. Window on the driver side of the car can hear wind seeping through. (all 10 service also complain)

3. The steel under the aluminum radiator is rusted. (2nd service change the whole piece os steel)

4. Water clog in within the door behind the driver seat, lots of water...(unclog the drainage)

Got other minor minor problems not listed here.

The car vibrate thing they tried alignment, balancing, switch between wheels, also cannot, they even asked ppl from conti to check and finally they agree to refund 50% of the thread use for 2 tyres, i change to michellin but still vibrating. Since after so many times also not fixed, i called crd, they made appointment with an engineer to check my car, finally they fixed it, along with the wind escaping in problem.

Hi miseralim, what is crd?

Can tell us more how they fixed your problems? We as an owner, very interest to know more about the problem and how they gonna fix it. As for the slow response from TC to fix your problem, this is sometime their staffs mindset is simply fix and customer will happy already, but in actual all we want is completely fix the problem, not just simply do something and the actual problem isn't fix at all, when complain up to their management side, only they know need to take your problem seriously, and this isn't only TC, I think all the car distributors also like this, including Toyota, VW, Honda, BMW, Mercedes.......

Agree. Like mine, got many problems. They just do a bit here and there and hope the problems will go away or the owner just give up. I always asked them to list my complaints on the invoice so that it is black and white for future but they refuse.

Agreed, do share as this will be useful to other Teana Owners

I am quite sure that all teana owners face the same problems as i do. First, go check under your bonet, the aluminum radiator is on top of a steel, if your car is 3.5 imported, there will be an insulator in between them. All models assembled here will be without the insulator, go request crd (customer relation department) to change the steel as they'll probably be brittle after couple of years of rustiness.

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Added on May 24, 2012, 7:16 pmThe wind seeping in through he driver side windows is actually due to a piece of insulator flapping as wind goes into the small rift between the door and the side mirror, the engineer has a specialized equipment to detect the origin of the noise, so he can identify the problem straight away. Unlike the service center in chan sow lin and balakong, they just try to tighten the door grip when its closed, so now my car need slightly extra strength to close the door.

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Added on May 24, 2012, 7:38 pmThe final problem is the toughest, after numerous attempts to balance and allign the tyres the car still vibrates while running at 140+kmh, and i've heard a lot of feedback from mechanics saying that the conti on our teana has alot of problems, namely uneven surface and noisy while driving, after the final service i realize that they rotate my new michellin ps3 215 60 r16 to the front and sent it to do on wheel balancing. Now at 160kmh also can't feel excessive vibration.

This post has been edited by miseralim: May 24 2012, 07:41 PM

has anyone encounter with the LCD stuck at TCEAS loading screen? mine intermittently occurred after few start/stop...cant even display my radio sation and aircon mode..zzz

Press the reset button on the I/O box, and try a few time see whether it will hang again, if it is still hang after few tries, eject the SD card and unplug everything including the USB thumbdrive, and try again.

Guys, just booked a teana, waiting for the loan to approve. Thinking of getting white or silver, any comment? Is white hard to maintain?

Both are nice, but I prefer white. For me, silver didn't look outstanding compared to white. Silver is the easiest colour to maintain, I own a silver 2005 Camry and still look clean (in waxed condition) even didn't wash for 2 weeks (mind that I live in rural area, cars are easier to get dirty). White is not so difficult to maintain but is after black colour which on the top in the list. Dust will get visible immediately after I wash the my black Toyota Wish. White is OK, but have to polish and wax it. In my opinion, Teana's outline is more obvious in white colour and it makes the car look bigger.

This post has been edited by TamaUser: May 26 2012, 04:27 PM

Agree with TamaUser.
If you are one of those that can have a big car as the second and only moves around the city and have a maid to wash it every day, go for white.

Silver, if you don't wash your car that frequent and black is a no no.

totally agree, silver and white is better than black. I can assured you that because i chosen Black because of perception that it look elegant... but eventually its the hardest to maintain if compare to my previous silver nissan sentra.....

White is more outstanding.. that little trouble of maintaining it should not hard