Hello from new Forum Member / Prius C Four Owner

We bought our C in early November. I found this forum shortly thereafter, and figured I should read as many posts as possible before joining or posting, to get a feel for the forum etiquette, mores, standards, etc. (And also to avoid asking one of those newbie questions that you see all the time which causes all the regulars to give themselves a face-palm.) I’ve gone through most of the sub-forums, which took a couple of months, so I figured now was the time to join. Not sure if I’ll have a lot to say, but now I can respond if I think I have anything to add to a thread, and ask questions of the experts.

Reading this Forum has already cost me $118 (for the WeatherTech floor liners), I suspect it will cost me more in the future. (The scan gauge, a device which I had no clue existed prior to reading all the forum discussion about it, looks pretty cool. So there will likely go $160. And I sure hope someone starts selling mud-flaps. And...and...)

I get good mpg readings on a lot of trips, 55, 60, sometimes even higher. But my fill-up to fill-up averages have been 44, 46 (which was really two tanks because the trip-meter did not get reset) and 43.5 mpg. It's winter, and there are also a lot of short trips with worse mpg, so I won't worry too much yet. I just raised my tire pressure to 40/38 based on the collective wisdom I found here, we’ll see if that makes a difference.

Overall, we love our new C (despite what Consumer Reports thinks of it.)

By the way, my name is not Maxwell or anything similar. I chose "Maxwellian" as my username in honor of James Clerk Maxwell, the father of humankind's understanding and application of electromagnetism, without which our Prius C would just be another gasoline engined vehicle. (I realize that gasoline engines use electricity, so perhaps it would be a diesel. You get the point.)

That's probably long enough for an introduction.

Best Regards,

Jeff

 

Thanks to all for your kind words of welcome.

I don't plan on getting snow tires. If we need to go somewhere before the roads are clear after a snow, we'll take our Honda CR-V. It has never let us down in the snow.