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I did the Love-Encore thing at my Subaru dealership yesterday, and while I was aware of just about everything, I did learn a few new things. I thought it might be helpful to list the quirks that I haven't seen mentioned much, if at all, in case others didn't know that these tricks exist.

1. Does your seat beep at you when you move your seat forward/backward, and does the seat not always automatically return to its position when you start the car? (This was the main reason I agreed to set up the Love-Encore appointment because I was going to ask about this, but I finally figured it out the day before my meeting on the Trailseeker Forum website.)
   1. This is because the seat hasn't been calibrated yet.
   2. In order to get the seat to stop beeping, and for the seat memory buttons to actually work, you need to calibrate the seat by moving the seat all the way forward, all the way back, all the way up, down, and tilted all the way back and forward.
   3. Once you do this, the seat will stop beeping at you, and now, when you start the car, the seat memory settings will actually work.
2. By default, the auto-unlock when you grab the driver's door will only unlock the driver's door, but it can still unlock all doors.
   1. If you want to unlock all doors with this setting set like this, you can keep your hand on the driver's door handle for an extra 3 seconds, and all doors will unlock.
   2. You can change this setting to always unlock all doors by touching the driver's door if you want, but I prefer keeping it the way it is, personally.
3. If the hands-free gate open doesn't work and it just beeps at you, it's probably because you're keeping your foot under the tailgate too long.
   1. The Trailseeker has a safety setting where if your foot is under the tailgate too long, it won't open. This is to prevent it from accidentally opening in situations like if a cat walks under it.
   2. In order for this to work reliably every time, quickly move your foot under the tailgate and don't let it linger. One quick motion is all you need, and make sure you aren't too close to the tailgate itself (it won't open if you're hovering over the back too close), and it will open/close reliably each and every time.
4. There's also a small circular Lock button to the right of the tailgate 'open' button.
   1. This will lock all of the doors without you needing to use the fob or walk around to the front doors to lock it.
5. Sometimes the Lock & Close button on the tailgate doesn't work.
   1. This can be because the keyfob detection is in the door which is usually open at the time and a little bit further away at that point, so you need to make sure the key is close enough, and that you are out of the way after you press it.
   2. So if the key is in your left pocket, make sure your left side is closer to the car than your right side and vice versa.
6. OTA updates are checked for automatically, but they aren't very frequent.
   1. I asked if they could check for updates because in the settings menu there's no way to manually check for updates. Apparently it checks automatically and if there's an update available, it will simply show up in the Updates Available section of the settings menu. For some reason I thought OTA updates weren't available.
7. If your phone seemed to change its name to Passive, you can fix this by going into your phone's settings and updating it back to what you want.
   1. Not sure if this was just a 'me' problem but strangely enough, my Android phone changed it's name in the Bluetooth menu to "Passive" at some point after getting the car. I had to go into the phone settings and change it back. It'll automatically update in the car eventually.
8. The trailer hitch is available to order, but may be on backorder.
   1. My quote, before labor, was about $700 - so with labor, it'll be around $1,000 USD, and it may result in losing the hands free gate open feature (unconfirmed, but sad if true).

I think that's about it, but I'm sure there might be something else I'm missing, so share anything I missed in the comments, or ask any other questions you have about a feature, and I or someone else here will likely be happy to answer.

Also, I asked them to turn off the reverse chime, and the service guy couldn't find the option in the settings now. They think Toyota may have changed the location of the settings somewhere in the dealer-only settings, but he couldn't find it after looking for a while, and it wasn't in its usual spot. If anyone knows where this setting is or where it may have moved to in the last couple weeks, let me know!

I ordered a bronze Trailseeker Limited on May 31st and was told it'd be available in late July, but my dealer just texted me today to let me know it arrived in the local railyard already, and should be ready to go next week!

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I haven't had time to get a level 2 charger installed yet but I'm hoping I can use level 1 in the meantime.

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I'm stoked!