Anyone take delivery what with the floor mat issue???

[Black Swan]

I take delivery of my BP IV on Thursday. The dealer called back and said no all-weather floor mats would be sold. I ordered mats off the forum. I waited approximately 40 days and gave a choice of two colors.

With gas prices on the rise, I'm really looking forward to Thursday!!! Thanks to all who post here. You are such a big Help!!!

[mrwompy]

My new Prius didn't come with any floor mats -- they would cost $220!! The salesperson recommended buying some elsewhere, which is what I did. I now have floor mats from Pep Boys.

[abosman]

Originally Posted by MisterRed

With the recent issue with the floor mats being blamed for the most recent accident and recall, has anyone taken delivery of a Prius and what did the dealership do with the driver floor mat? I have heard that they are to install a zip tie but wanted to hear of what anyone may have experienced.

I expect to take delivery of a Prius V within the next couple of weeks.

Took delivery of 2010 Prius III Blizzard White with Black Prius mats installed, no zip ties. Wife has 2009 VI Bright White with Beige mats, no zip ties. Only the Toyota mat hook installed.

[wfolta]

The accelerator is so high on the 2010 that I can't see how a floor mat would possibly get onto it. I assume they raised and shortened the accelerator in the Gen III to make it nearly impossible for floor mat problems to arise again.

[DickPhillips]

[QUOTE=MisterRed;984818]With the recent issue with the floor mats being blamed for the most recent accident and recall, has anyone taken delivery of a Prius and what did the dealership do with the driver floor mat? I have heard that they are to install a zip tie but wanted to hear of what anyone may have experienced.

My car came on Sep 11th but with the cloth mats rather than the all weather ones that I had ordered. I didn't worry about it as the cost was only $1 higher and they did look good. After seeing the article in the news about that recall I figured the reason the 2010 Prius was not listed is that they are not supplying those all weather mats. Mine also did have the hooks to secure the driver side mat and I highly doubt the passenger side one will conflict with the accelerator pedal so I'll just keep those extra hooks for if (when?) the ones in use get broken as it is a bit difficult to take the mats out.

[creativeguy]

I got my car yesterday and the salesman said he was surprised that they sold me the floor mats, even though the drivers mat has the hooks. He said some people stack 1 or more mats on each other so Toyota is just being really cautious right now.

[robertp]

I ordered my Prius with all weather Floormats. Dealer told me that the mats were taken out and will be replaced with regular mats. Dealer will NOT install them and will put them in the trunk so that the new owner is responsible installing them.

Anyway October 31 is the day to pick her up. A Blue Prius V with Nav.

[garygid]

Since Toyota blamed many otherwise-unexplained "unexpected" acceleration problems
on the mats (instead of their firmware), now they have to (pretend to) "fix" the mats.

[RodJo]

I'm taking delivery on Saturday. The dealer cannot sell or order all-weather mats so I am getting carpeted mats but with the all-weather cargo mat. I will order mats from WeatherTech. They are probably better quality anyway.

[qbee42]

Originally Posted by garygid

Since Toyota blamed many otherwise-unexplained "unexpected" acceleration problems
on the mats (instead of their firmware), now they have to (pretend to) "fix" the mats.

Do you have information not available to the rest of us?

Tom