I RESET my Trip B again. DAMN.

The one thing that is bullet-proof is the odometer reading. Where you are now, you might be able to calculate the number by looking at the trip records, it holds the last 4 or 5 on one of the screens (if sim. to reg prius).

 

One thing that helped me was noting that the 'B' in trip B was reverse video (i.e. dark B, light background). That made it easier to notice which was displayed.

 

we need an 'are you sure you want to delete trip B?' warning.

 

IS THAT YOUR FINAL ANSWER??

 

exactly.

 

I keep the between fillup mileage with Trip-B as well.
How about making Trip-A auto reset after each trip (car shutoff for a least 30 mins) my old car did that.
So I would be resetting the Trip-A manually less often to avoid accidental reset on Trip-B.

 

With 3rd gen Prius, here's an excerpt from page 36 of Owners Manual:



And hopefully this reflects your manual (cut-and-paste from a pdf I downloaded):



I think you just give repeated short pushes of the trip meter, to cycle through all the trip displays, and this record of past trips is one of them, showing the miles along the bottom.

I've used this once or twice when the trip meter was inadvertantly reset without being recorded. After a while though, I decided just recording the odometer readings was much safer.

 

If you don't unintentionally reset the Trip meters, a service tech may do it for you. That happened only once to me, but then I have to do it too as least once a year. A paper record is the real keeper of my long term data.

 

pip has monthly fuel cons screen, but i don't think past record screen?

 

^Ah, you're right.

 

too bad, that looks like a good one. you would think with software, it would be cheap and easy to add as many as possible. maybe select the ones you want to scroll through.

 

I haven't screwed up yet, but I'm sure it will happen. In the meanwhile, I use 'a' for per tank miles, and 'b' for lifetime. I have to keep a detailed mileage log for business use, so I write down the actual odometer readings for that purpose. On my Gen ll's I found service techs and the occasional parking valet would manage to reset things, so I got in the habit of turning off the display. Don't know if that will work on the PiP.

 

Not if you use the odometer.

 

wouldn't it be nice if the odo tracked average consumption and mph?it's probably in the computer somewhere.