all the hidden features of the BRZ FRS that i know about, comment some you know of down below ! SUBSCRIBE for more ! Follow Me Here ! / robbieferreiraa & My Car Here / rferreira_brz fresh start - joakim karud
If the battery in your key dies, you can simply put the keyfob near the starter button and start the car. There is a chip in the key that the starter button can pick up on at a short range. You just keep the key in the hand that is pressing the button and it should work.
Luke I've accidentally left empty comments before, just tired asf and usually miss the right button then end up accidentally leaving a comment on just their name rip
Next time, take the five extra minutes to warm your car up so you can show that the steps work. Also, put an SD card in and show it. A little extra prep would have gone a long way.
OMFGGGG My brother borrowed my FR-S and came back and said he broke my trunk button on my keys... NO I JUST PAUSED THIS VIDEO & WENT OUT THERE AND SAW HE JUST PRESSED THAT BUTTON NO ONE KNEW ABOUT.................. it's been 5 months!! #annoyed
Omfg! I just did this and you seriously get a huge gain in power! Everybody that has an 86 should of been told this when they bought it! Thank you!! Lol
You can reduce cabin noise by taking cover grommet off of the cigarette lighter behind the glove box and moving it to cover the tube just below the glove box. The tube was put there to help you hear the engine, but if you're like me and you want to hear the radio instead this helps.
Clav3l Gaming I'm 6'1, there's no 'plowing' going on in any of today's cars for me except maybe a Ford Flex. On the other hand, if you're not dating a cow, you CAN check her right angle bend over the deck lid or just lie her lengthwise on the hood.
holy crap. i work as a toyota tech and even i didnt know about the majority of this stuff... guess im turning that TCS off completely the next time i get to drive the company's gt86 ;-)
Howler I always thought to completely turn off all driving aids you hold down the sports mode and tcs bottons down simultaneously for a few seconds until the lights on the dash change..it definitely cuts off tcs and traction control!
Sounds like my last visit to the Toyota dealership service department. They had to ring Subaru to find out how to re-initialise the self leveling headlights on my 2017 to compensate for the Toyota option lowering springs. That was after they told me it couldn't be done of course. I found the Toyota tech doc on how to do it in less than 5 minutes. All that certified training money being spent right I suppose.
Actually, as a fellow Toyota Tech, this is great info for diag. This will help us from tripping false-positive ABS codes and having to hook up a scanner, drive the car and clear them. This also helps to have fun when I get my own.
The second gen Impreza and Forester definitely don't have it. I'm wrapping a bungee strap around my garage rafters and hooking one end to my hood latch to get the same effect now :(
I just bought a 2017 BRZ! My first manual! Even though I've pretty much gotten the shifting down now, but showing the gear I'm in is still a nice way to double check. Thanks!
No, I think he's talking about the door handle sensor that unlocks the door when you touch it. It normally only unlocks the door you touch, but after the button combo on the fob, both doors unlock.
Who has the time to actually push a button to unlock their car.. next you'll say we should have to turn on the A/C if we're hot, or turn on our wipers if it's raining
Similar to #2 the shift light, in DISP (MPGs and outdoor temp gauge) there is an option to add a tachometer light and beep to notify the driver of when to shift at the set rpms. I usually set it to 2,800 for fuel mileage or about 6,500 for hooning.
A 'hidden' feature I found on mine was that it had a hill start assist, to activate you start the car, hold the traction control off button for 30 seconds, wait until the hill light flashes on - then off again, press the traction control off button again, restart the car and when you lift off the break on a hill it holds until you set off! Had the car for 10 months before I found that one!
i just bought a 2017 BRZ and im loving it! funnest car ive ever driven! these little tips are dope cause i bought it private sale and got no run down of the vehicle before buying! thank you!!!
I thought this was going to be a dumb video with a pretentious over tone with him saying very obvious things, but this was very informative. I don't even drive one of the three cars and i watched all the way through
The pedal dance activates what is called diagnostic mode. Aside from traction control it also disables the electronic brake distribution system, which is why its good for track days. Allows you to use trail braking without the EBD doing crazy shit when you least expect it. Other than the traction control stuff you wont notice the difference unless you're really havin a go.
I don't own one of these, but I'm really researching one as a track toy/ no snow car, and congrats on actually making a "tips a tricks" style video that actually teaches you something! Thank you
FYI for any FRS owners (and BRZ if you don't mind giving up the auto dim feature in the review mirror). If you have a dash cam or radar detector that you would like to hard wire to power when the vehicle is on. There is a wire above the dome light that controls the auto dim feature in the mirror for the BRZ models (probably nicer GT86 models as well) but if you have a base FRS, the wires are still there. You can T into those really easy to not have to run wires all the way down to the glove box cigarette lighter.
thanks for showing how to open both doors with the keyless entry via driver door handle. that always annoyed me that it would only unlock the driver door then I'd have to hit the unlock button inside the car to open the passenger door
Most of these were useful as a new manual driver. I couldn't find the gear shift light anywhere, so I thought I didn't have it. Didn't know the car had to be in acc mode only. That is going to be super helpful while I'm still learning. I didn't know about the cig lighter in the glove box, good to know as I have a dash cam as well. The door unlocking will be nice since it's not only me going places. Thank you so much! Your videos have helped me TREMENDOUSLY! I have a 2015 brz and I'm loving it.
I'm about to pick up my 2019 86 GT at the dealer, so I'm watching videos to pass the time and Robbie mentions the pain-in-the-ass only driver door unlocks fix. My wife's 2013 Prius V only unlocks the driver door as well unless you hit the unlock button to unlock all doors. After watching this video, I had to grab the keys, run outside and hold the lock & unlock buttons on the fob... a few seconds later, the Prius V beeps a few times and I grab the door handle BAM! ALL doors unlock now! Thanks Robbie!
I own a 2017 BRZ. Found the hidden cigarette lighter receptacle. Also was able to reconfigure the door unlock settings by holding both lock and unlock buttons until I heard a beep.
Yeah, it's all in the Owner's Manual. And I wish he'd stop saying "cigarette lighter" - they're 12V outlets, and they're not able to handle the heat from an actual cigarette lighter.
I work at a subaru dealership and just realized I pushed that trunk button today on a car and never pushed it back to where it was... but I guess if that car comes back I'll at least know how to fix it! Hahaha
wow that trunk tip blew me away lol I thought my trunk sensor or something was broken that I thought about going to a dealer. All the other tips were so helpful getting to know the little things about my car. Thanks!!!
Subaru actually has a function as well where you can deactivate your key fob so it won’t function. This is for if you go hiking or swimming or something and just want to take the key blade with you, you can then lock the key fob away and the vehicle it’s a lesser potential for theft. Just thought it was a cool trick to share, if you want to know how to do it there is videos on Subaru’s RU-vid page as well. I know this is an old video but I love everything you do and it’s inspiring and keeps faith for finding my way and doing what makes me happy as well. Keep it up man!
Well where there i will there is a way, look up tj hunts brz.. He did a kit and it sceemed like the only problem he had was to get misimoto fans for the radiator. But maybe it was easy for him with the car already being supercharged and bodykittet before.
It’s not so much that things were hidden or not intended for owners to know about the GT86, but rather for those who have the lazy tendency to not read their owner’s manual, like myself, will miss some things like these. But one feature I’m certain is overlooked or omitted from any mention nowadays is how the passenger side window controls will not be lit when you lock the controls. I know this existed on some older cars, but it’s fun to learn some things about your car as if they were Easter eggs. Nothing wrong with that. Good vid. Haters will hate no matter what, even when the intent is purely for the good of others.
For the traction control one, instead of doing the pedal trick you can just hold the traction off button (driver side) for about 10 seconds when the car is running and all traction will go off. I've been doing it this way since I got my BRZ!
You can also turn off all traction and stability control in almost any car by holding the traction button for a few seconds. You just hold it until the traction and stability control lights on your dash come on and everything is off until you hit the button again to turn it all on.
There's a secret compartment that can only be unlocked if six other hidden buttons are opened in a specific order. If done in the correct manner, within a specific time frame, the button pops up. This button is red and has written on it "powa" and will give the BRZ (not on the FRS) an additional 100 horsepower for 100 milliseconds exactly!
Ok if you have impreza sport change plugs at 50 thousand miles.never use transmission as a break.they are $4000.00 for a new transmission.oil change every 6000
Nice video man. Only thing I didn't already know (only bc I looked into this stuff in 2016 when I got my car 🙂) was the "hack" of running the dashcam cord down the a-pillar into the glove box. Way neater than my current setup (same dashcam haha). Thanks man. About that pedal dance - in my FR-S, turning all nannies (except abs) completely, indefinitely off is accomplished simply by holding down the 'Traction control off' button for three seconds at speeds below 30 mph. Is that just a Toyota thing?
Im not sure if the pedal dance is different on newer brz’s but on older ones its different than you showed. You start the car and hold the brake while the e-brake is down, then you do what you did in the video but then you have to also press the brake down twice again at the end to turn it off. At least thats how it is with my 2013
4:32 it helped me on toyota prius. It always annoyed me when got in to the car with keyless entry I had to push unlock button to open other doors. Thank you so much for your video.
Great video and thanks as its been really useful, i will find the cigarette lighter socket in the glove compartment and altering the key less entry the most useful on my GT86.
The regular / 90 degree hood thing is common to a lot of cars... on my 'Accord, there are 2 (TWO) slots where you can rest the prop rod. The regular one near the edge of the hood, and one, further down, close to the middle for the "all the way up" mode.
