From '07 Prius IV to '10 Prius V with a few others in between...

Hi folks! I just wanted to stop by and say hi. I just bought a 2010 Prius package 5 in silver, fully loaded with all the bells and whistles including the Advanced Tech Package. I bought this car from the Toyota dealer and it is CPO'd till 100k. The car only has 29k miles for an '10 and was a lease return. This is my 2nd Prius as I previously owned an '07 Prius IV (fully loaded also) and my wife just loved it! We sold it after getting a hit-n-run and switched to a Mini Cooper S. The mini was a good car but it was a little too cramped for us and the turbo lag was annoying. I then switched to an Infiniti G37xS sedan that was a great car to drive, but only gave me 15mpg. I'm loving the 51mpg on the new Prius and drove it 10 hours to Canada and back from Cincinnati as soon as I picked it up from the dealership. This trip would have costed me $300 in gas on the G37 but with the Prius it was less than $100 The trip was fun and easy with the LKA and adaptive cruise control.

Here is a list of things I need to do immediately to the car:
1 - Thoroughly read the manual
2 - Turn off the annoying reverse beep
3 - Turn off seat belt beep
4 - Hack navi to work when I am driving
5 - Turn off headlights immediately when the car is turned off
6 - Get rubber floor mats
7 - Do a clay bar, compound treatment and wax the car completly
8 - Tint the windows 20% all around
9 - Change the rear license plate bulbs to leds

Now I know that on the 2nd gen Prius I could do hack 2-4 by myself but from reading around the forum I believe that on the 3rd Gen Prius it has to be done by the dealer eh?

Please feel free to suggest any other mod that's cost effective and easy to do.

My brother and 2 sisters also own a Prius and this being my second Prius I can see why there is so much love for this car... Cheers!

 

I stopped at the dealer during lunch to ask about removing the reverse and seat belt warning beeps and they said it will take them half hour and will charge $45.00... damn

 

no other car i have ever owned has the reverse beep, so i wonder why people get worried about turning it off. the car is always in parked and when i change gears to D or R i am pretty careful about what direction it is going to go in