Sellers love free promoting, so it’s widespread to see automobiles plastered with cheesy stickers or dealership-branded license plate surrounds.

Nonetheless, Ohio’s Efficiency Lexus is seemingly taking issues to an much more appalling degree by changing the usual startup display with an unpleasant advert.

As you may see on this image posted to Reddit, the startup display now exhibits a “Thank You” message which advertises Efficiency Lexus’ web site in addition to their gross sales and repair numbers. Whereas this info might be helpful, it’s definitely not one thing homeowners need to see each time they startup their automobile.

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To make issues worse, it’s a little bit of a ache to vary the picture as this video from Lexus of Orange Park demonstrates. As you may see, it is advisable to seize a USB flash drive, create a folder named “Picture”, after which add your required image. As soon as that’s full, homeowners have to insert the flash drive into their automobile’s USB port, dig by means of the infotainment system to search out an obscure setting, choose and duplicate the picture, affirm their choice, and set it because the startup display picture.

That’s admittedly straightforward for tech savvy individuals, however it’s nonetheless loads of work to vary one thing the seller shouldn’t have messed with within the first place. After all, it’s price noting Lexus consumers are usually older and a few may not be capable to change the picture with out assist. When you’ve ever needed to cope with explaining laptop or smartphone settings to your mother and father, think about the nightmare of strolling them by means of altering their automotive’s startup display.

Placing that terrifying thought apart, the dealership’s transfer was closely criticized by Redditors who billed it as an “early 2000’s business being performed in your automotive” and mentioned they’d make the seller take away it earlier than taking supply.