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Old 02-28-17, 05:59 PM
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Default Lexus Enform App and remote Start 6 months vs full year

Just curious...has anyone ever convinced Lexus to allow for month to month service on Enform?

Since my RC is in storage from Dec to May, I don't really want to pay $350 a year or whatever it was for only 7 months of use but i do LOVE my enform app
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Crazy how expensive this is! Should be free... A tip I found that convinced me not to purchase enform was learning that I could do a remote start from the key fab. If you tap the lock button 3 times and hold it the 3rd time, it will remote start.
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Crazy how expensive this is! Should be free... A tip I found that convinced me not to purchase enform was learning that I could do a remote start from the key fab. If you tap the lock button 3 times and hold it the 3rd time, it will remote start.
The fob range is pitiful. I can't even pop the trunk unless I'm within 15 feet of the car. I think they did it on purpose to help the Enform sales. Because all of my previous cars had a range so far I could walk around a parking lot pressing the fob buttons to find my car. I would likely bump into my car before I found it with this fob... I've tried brand new batteries in both fobs, no difference.

I use Enform every single day to start my car so that it's somewhat warmed up when I get in it after work and I can just hop in it and go. But if I had to use the fob I couldn't do it since my car is nearly a mile from where I work. By the time I walked all the way to my car to start it the point would be moot.
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Originally Posted by Davew77
The fob range is pitiful. I can't even pop the trunk unless I'm within 15 feet of the car. I think they did it on purpose to help the Enform sales. Because all of my previous cars had a range so far I could walk around a parking lot pressing the fob buttons to find my car. I would likely bump into my car before I found it with this fob... I've tried brand new batteries in both fobs, no difference.

I use Enform every single day to start my car so that it's somewhat warmed up when I get in it after work and I can just hop in it and go. But if I had to use the fob I couldn't do it since my car is nearly a mile from where I work. By the time I walked all the way to my car to start it the point would be moot.
really? i just had a convo with a family member about how far my key fob goes. also i can be inside a brick building and unlock and lock from the fob a good amount away.
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really? i just had a convo with a family member about how far my key fob goes. also i can be inside a brick building and unlock and lock from the fob a good amount away.
Really? Maybe it's just mine then... I also have the leather? fob covers. I wonder if they are interfering with the signal. I don't see how, but I'll have to play with them with the covers off and see. Otherwise, maybe I'll go complain to Lexus and see if they can fix them.
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Originally Posted by Shmoozin
Crazy how expensive this is! Should be free... A tip I found that convinced me not to purchase enform was learning that I could do a remote start from the key fab. If you tap the lock button 3 times and hold it the 3rd time, it will remote start.
Wait wait is this confirmed? My car is getting xpel'd and coated right now so I can't try, but I wanted the Enform JUST for remote start, I thought this process only worked along with an Enform subscription?
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The remote lock button feature doesn't work if Enform is out of service, at least for an is350. Mine was working fine with tapping the lock button 3 times whenever I had Enform but it doesn't work anymore since my 1 year free subscription is out.
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^yup bunch of cash sucking corporations

mine doesn't work either after my subscription expired. Looking to get a viper remote start installed with 1000x better range
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Is there a JDM option that works with our vehicles?
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its insane this is not included with the car for at least 3 years. Especially on a lease it should defiantly be included with it. I cant believe we have to pay for a subscription if we want to use apps from out phone and the remote start that is already built into the car
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Sal11585 is correct and it is easy to do. When configuring a lease just negotiate the Lexus Enform Remote
and the extended maintenance terms that compliment the 3 or 4 years of the lease. Nothing to it.
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I called Via SOS button and subcribed to Lexus Enform on a month to month bases. I chose the monthly at $24.99 so as to "try it out" without spending $249 and hate or not use it.
can go monthly till I cancel
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