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Some of you may have seen some of my comments. I am a Toyota MDT (Master Diag Tech), I have been following the battery drain issues on here for a while. After gathering some info, I reached out to my FTS (Field Technical Specialist) essentially a techs go to for hard to diag or strange cases.

He told me that Toyota is aware of the issue and trying to investigate, the problem is getting cars with a consistent issue that they can study.

I am aware that there are techs out there that just kind of blow this off (probably because they don’t see it as an issue), but this is where I am asking for your help.

Those of you who are experiencing the issue consistently, please get your cars to the dealer and demand they get there FTS involved and start a TAS case (a TAS case means the tech and FTS are documenting all findings for investigative purposes with Toyota) DO NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER. Let’s get this resolved. Thank you. I am genuinely curious what will be found, and I personally love that Toyota is finally committing to BEVs, if this 12v drain is the biggest issue they are having so far, that is a good sign, let’s help them make it better.

Just got back from vacation, we went to a resort we have used many times in the past. The difference is how well the car handled those steep slow hill climbs.

First time we were out there was in my 01 ford diesel, the engine had torque, but again it is limited by the engines “power band” and shifting gears, so being in a higher gear means you need to keep some momentum going to climb the hill, or pick a lower gear and sacrifice speed (in this case it would have been a “crawl gear”. Same thing with the gas/hybrid vehicles we have taken there, you can always tell that the engine is revving higher/working harder. And if you have to stop on the hills (considering there are stop signs right at the top, this is not uncommon).

However, with the bz, I intentionally stopped on the hills, and I could take them as slow or as fast as I wanted. I can’t see ever going back to those old, weak ice vehicles.

So I (39M) have 2 kids a (recently turned) 6 yo girl, and a boy who recently turned 1yo (1 month ago).

Big sis has embraced the idea of being an older sibling since we revealed it to her, she is a very helpful and also very patient and understanding big sis. If little brother hits her (because he is one and excitement gets the limbs flailing) she politely tells him “no, hitting is NOT nice”. I couldn’t be more proud of her.

But we have been noticing a little bit of . . . Best I can explain it is “backsliding” in certain developmental areas. Originally it was baby talk, instead of asking for something, she would point and grunt or say “goo”. We seam to be getting that handled, but lately I have been struggling with her not understanding her size difference compared to little brother. Some examples.

I will hold little brothers arms and “swing” him up and down, I refer to these kinds of things as “rock it daddy style” (done to the theme of Gangnam style lol) but then she instantly wants to do the same thing, and she doesn’t seam to grasp the fact that she is almost 3 times his size, so not only can I not hold her high enough, but she is heavy.

Take a walk in the park to get him practice at walking and after a while I will sit him on my shoulders, cue big sis “oh my turn I want to do that” and that leads to us spending the rest of our time out in the woods to me trying to get through to her that she is too big “well I want to try anywase” etc.

He is playing with a little play school slide and she wants to play with it even though the staircase on her is nearly waist high.

I have tried many times to explain to her that she has already done all of the things little brother is doing, and in fact SHE has gotten more of those opportunities because she was the only child at that point and so my time was devoted to her.

Sorry if this seams like a long post, it was a combination rant and looking for any advice to get the point through to her. Both children have become “daddy” kids in part because I am gone all day and they see mommy all day so they both are craving time with daddy and I feel a bit overwhelmed trying to be fare to both of them.