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What I hate about PriusChat

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by macmaster05, Feb 9, 2011.

  1. twittel

    twittel Senior Member

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    I agree about newbie PriusChatters not searching before starting threads and/or asking within threads, but in fairness to them, search functionality is cumbersome at best. Using "PC Search" takes a ton of patience to review all the word results and threads it returns. I have better results with Google search. IMO :)

    Also, PC continues to be slower for me than other online resources I use.
     
  2. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    Hey guys.
    Now that the weather is getting warmer, I notice that my MPG is increasing. Is this normal? Do other people notice the same thing? Should I be concerned?







    (just kidding.
    twittel mentioned people starting new threads and asking new questions in existing threads)
     
  3. Michgal007

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    I completely agree, my MPG increased from 53.2 to 53.8!
    :roll:

    J/K
     
  4. DaYooper

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    How bout this one: "I got a bazillion mpg on a one way commute"
     
  5. mikewithaprius

    mikewithaprius New Member

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    Well I have scientifically mis-dis-non-proven your and Tony's observations slash the universal balance of fuel economy because once I got 29.3 on a tank and today it was warmer and I filled up and I got 29.2, therefore your science is wrong and warmer weather produces lower mpgs because it's a fact.

    Which brings up another point, I'm only getting 29 mpg, is that normal???? :p
     
  6. cycledrum

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    "Originally Posted by macmaster05 [​IMG]
    In no particular order.

    1. The new Gen III owners who hate the Gen II and refused to ever buy one. "
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    I harbor some hatred for the 2nd gen Prius and likely always will -

    * I dislike that Toyota seemingly copied the dash and driver's seating/spacing from the 1st gen Prius to the 2nd gen and continued to sell it that way for 6 years.

    * I took a chance on what I knew was borderline seating going in, after 3 months it hit - Wth am I doing driving this thing? Never felt comfortable or normal driving it, spent countless hours on seat mods and still lost $14k for driving 15k miles. It taught me a life lesson - I hate crappy seating in a car!

    * I dislike how people refer to 'how nice the rear seat leg room is' in 2nd gen Prius. Wth? Excuse me, I'm the driver, I don't give a rats nice person about rear seat leg room which btw, was a few inches too much. Doesn't even have that much headroom in rear seat, so why have extra legroom? 3rd gen has great proportions, so nice comeback.

    I dislike when people refer to driver's headroom as the only indicator whether a car fits a person or not - excuse me, but I'm sitting on my nice person and thighs, how about fit and support for that?
     
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  7. Trollbait

    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    If the rear seat was so great, why was my head always touching the glass of the rear window. But, as the driver, I really didn't care. Having the exact same seat as the Matrix up front, I cared about.

    Now I also have some disdain over the use of the 1.8 engine in the gen3. It sounds like in order to get the highest city mpg possible, I have to go back to the gen2 and its uncomfortable front seat.
     
  8. twittel

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    Oh, good Lord, I had to read this three times before I caught on and realized who posted! Nice...:biggrin1:
     
  9. stefano5777

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    I drove my car for last week with tires at 42 psi and noticed a fuel economy drop over 35 psi. So I have proved you guys wrong.Also noticed that driving using p&g is ineffective!
     
  10. skilbovia

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    What's that big box under the passenger's seat?
    The FM radio reception sucks.
    Any good deals on XM radio?
    How is the Prius in snow?
    Does the Prius come with a standard transmission?
    And for FHOP: We haven't had a good bubonic plague thread for awhile.
     
  11. Stev0

    Stev0 Honorary Hong Kong Cavalier

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    I'm surprised that nobody ever started a thread asking what kind of tires to get. Maybe I'll get the ball rolling...
     
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  12. cwerdna

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    Ditto. I hate the above, esp. when it comes to fuel economy complaints w/scant or no info. I or a bunch of posters ask a bunch of questions and hear nothing in reply. :confused:

    If I only got $1 for each of those...