This car never ceases to amaze me... Not to mention the stuff i find hidden everywhere!

Wow, you landed lots of treasure.

Buying my cars new, the only treasure left behind by the dealership / port / factory crews has been a utility knife, found jamming the driver seat slide track. And a wrench left atop the engine by a oil change monkey. (Both were on previous cars, not Prius).

But I did find a $10 bill last week, in a pile of leaves while searching for a cell phone case that had blown away while I was outside the car supporting bike riders. Then found the case too.

 

... and it is a freebie case anyway, an advertising giveway from a tourist bureau several years ago. So now I'm money ahead on it.

 

at least you didn't find any meeces!

 

Not me, but a friend bought a used Gen 2 from a dealer and a week or so later found there was a stash of bullets in that lower console drawer.

 

Jefferson National Expansion Museum was located under the Gateway Arch. They had a gift shop selling that medallion. The museum is closed but the gift shop is still open. It looks like the retail value is $5.95.

Commemorative Solid Brass Gateway Arch Coin

 

Where is the "hidden drawer?"

So far, I found a dead micro SD card. :-(
I'll have to pull up the back seat to see what is there! I know from looking around the seatbelt hardware back there that there is some crap stuck under there that needs to go.

Hopefully I'll find something good!

 

I found one after owning the car for a year and a half,ITS HUGE!

also found a 12 volt outlet in the center console I only found old French fry's under the back seat

 

that is a very large bolt, you would think someone would be missing that

 

Before you get frustrated, the "Hidden Drawer" is just below the front coffee cup holder, on the surface facing the dash.

JeffD

 

Wow--all kinds of treasure in that one!

I also like the little storage bin under the driver's side, back corner of the trunk with its own little hatch over it.

I've been the only owner of this one, but there are so many hiding places, I'm still surprised at what I find in some of them. Nothing as interesting as what you've found, though. There has been a fishing sinker and a tiny, plastic Pocahontas figurine in my center console for quite a while, as well as two little cardboard fold-up Mini Coopers.

 

The Gen II is turning out to be a "Corellian smugglers dream", a bit like the Millenium Falcon, with all these cleverly hidden compartments.

I'm gonna go pop the rear seat tomorrow and look under there - I'm now sure there's loads of hidden bits and pieces under there. That's probably where the intermittent mysterious rattle I get from behind me sometimes, is coming from. The sound source is spot on. I'll post whatever I find.

I've had "The Spacecraft" for over 2 years, and I had no idea I could actually pop the rear seat bench and look under there....!!

Thank you!!!!


iPad ? HD

 

I only found some bolts and a small pocket knife (in the lining running at the back of the front seats that collects all crap falling between the horizontal and vertical part of the seat). Oh, and a USB charger in a cigarette lighter socket behind the dash that was always ON...

Still amazed at people who don't know the drawer in the centreconsole... I found that within minutes of sitting in a Gen2 Prius for the first time. You open up the centre console, find the two cupholders in front of it and realise there is still space unaccounted for...

Maybe I just have an inquisitive nature...

 

I never did manage to lift up my rear seat. Curious. It just won't come loose - can't get it to budge - and I don't want to break it! How did you get it to come off? Explicit instructions if possible please


iPhone ?

 

I'm still hoping to find a hidden aux input on the 2005 I have. Sadly, not to be. It was a weird story how we even came to get the car in the first place. For another thread. I love the smuggling compartment. Might be worth it to put some emergency money in there just in case.

 

I've gotta create a thread called "What the Prius has in common with the Millennium Falcon".....

SM-G900F ?

 

My Sister-in-law from Russia, visited my wife and I in London last August. She was accosted the privilege of being driven everywhere in "The Spaceship" where possible - usually on weekends, when I wasn't working.

She quickly warmed to the vehicle, and got my basic explanation of how it worked pretty quick. She even took to riding shotgun

One day, returning from a visit to our daughter and her boyfriend, we approached an impressive hump bridge flyover at 50mph and proceeded to ascend it accordingly.
The hitherto quiet power plant suddenly increased noise as we began to effortlessly tackle the flyover.
She immediately piped up and remarked how the Prius sounded and felt much like a twin engined Airbus climbing out of an airport.
She's not exactly a geek, but surprisingly intuitive!

Well, a few days ago, I was privileged to be on board an Airbus A319-er, climbing out of Heathrow bound for Paris. It did indeed sound like my Prius tackling a tall hill or flyover!

The nicest bit of course, in either vehicle, is reaching cruising altitude, then beginning that delirious descent with engines idling, and minimal fuel being expended. Indeed, The Prius will slyly recharge it's HV battery, the regenerative breaking slowing your descent the same way those extended flaps air brakes do the same.

Love the analogies

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