I was able to turn off the fake engine sounds and the seatbelt alarms without a Carista subscription,
https://aliexpress.us/item/3256807342302031.html (or search X431 and make sure it says bi-directional somewhere)
and this flowchart to find the settings in the very unintuitive menus https://www.4runners.com/threads/launch-creader-x431-elite-obd2-scanner-toyota.39620/#post-615752
It costs about $110-$115 including shipping, but it's one time and you can use it again next month, what a concept.
I should probably search to see if there is an android app that can do it. A plugin for Torque would be awesome. Anyway, just wanted to document this option because the menus are a bit ridiculous, but someone on another forum made a flowchart, and following that worked for me.
After you follow the flowchart to the customize menu, the fake engine sounds are under ANC/ESE. (adaptive noice cancelling, engine sound enhancement) you can set it so that anc is still on while ese is off, or any other combo.
That aliexpress listing also included a "EL-50448 PLUS For Ford For GM". When you google that, the amazon listing for the same thing explicitly says toyota not supported. Maybe you don't need one of these for toyota and you just ignore it? I haven't tried to do a tpms relearn so I don't know. I wasn't expecting it anyway, I just thought I was getting the main unit which I got, and which worked.
https://aliexpress.us/item/3256807342302031.html (or search X431 and make sure it says bi-directional somewhere)
and this flowchart to find the settings in the very unintuitive menus https://www.4runners.com/threads/launch-creader-x431-elite-obd2-scanner-toyota.39620/#post-615752
It costs about $110-$115 including shipping, but it's one time and you can use it again next month, what a concept.
I should probably search to see if there is an android app that can do it. A plugin for Torque would be awesome. Anyway, just wanted to document this option because the menus are a bit ridiculous, but someone on another forum made a flowchart, and following that worked for me.
After you follow the flowchart to the customize menu, the fake engine sounds are under ANC/ESE. (adaptive noice cancelling, engine sound enhancement) you can set it so that anc is still on while ese is off, or any other combo.
That aliexpress listing also included a "EL-50448 PLUS For Ford For GM". When you google that, the amazon listing for the same thing explicitly says toyota not supported. Maybe you don't need one of these for toyota and you just ignore it? I haven't tried to do a tpms relearn so I don't know. I wasn't expecting it anyway, I just thought I was getting the main unit which I got, and which worked.
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