Separate names with a comma.
The crusty deep snows could damage the plastic underbody panels that help reduce aero drag. Your concerns are on-point. Mpg will be less than...
Agreed. Generally. Wind resistance makes warp stealth more of a "downhills and exits" strategy for me. It can work, but is not as...
Actually, for times with traffic so you need a more constant speed, pulse UP and glide down. Or just DWL (allow speed to bleed down by avoiding...
The HV spins the ICE to start, but the 12V must first power up the ECUs. So both are necessary and neither is sufficient alone. The 12V is the...
Hobbit has nice how to pieces on transaxle fluid change in gen2 (similar). techno-fandom.org and look down his list for 50K and 100K maintenance...
Motorcyclists currently testifying in Topeka to for law to allow running red lights in no traffic conditions for exactly that reason (after...
Lights stink, but not as bad as stop signs (you avoid the lights sometimes). In addition to practice on your normal routes, work on rabbit timing...
Your car is worth $x. If you sell or trade it, it will continue its useful life for someone else. If it no longer meets your needs, consider...
IIRC, there is a single ping, but I don't always notice it.
Since the '10/'11 gen3's don't have a rubber bladder fuel tank like gen2, you are pretty safe like a typical car to wait on the flashing pip....
Any type of moisture on the roads is a killer. Cold is a killer that can be mitigated to some extent. Kansas winds can cost me as much as either...
Your point is well taken F8L. Not everyone has 20-40 mph psl's all the way to work with pretty flat terrain and reasonable traffic. And not...
Grill blocking greatly speeds the warmup in my experience.
You should not leave the car on. Just get in and drive. Some argue to idle in Stage 1a (~first minute), but that is the only exception. Of...
You block the lower grill by buying 2 8' lengths of 1/2" pipe insulation at the home store, cutting 2 pieces from each and stuffing in the 4...
I never said the tank only had 1.5 mile trips; I said with 1.5 mile commute. Yes, we have some 5 mile and sometimes longer trips, but we also...
Study the thread/page links in my signature... I learn something each time I review them.
The gen3 ('10/'11) handles warmup better imho than the gen2. We can hold 50 mpg over a tank with our 1.5 mile commute (car garaged, lower grill...
cbc, welcome! You'll love your Prius. When your speed/terrain makes efficient use of the ICE output, then steady state is fine. But otherwise,...
Take a drive like your old commute on a warm dry-road day and see if mpg still same as before.
