Just wanted to say ....Hi

Hi everyone!

Got my new 06 Prius July 18th...live on Long Island, New York...

Still on first tank of gas and looks as though I'm only going to get little over 300 miles on the tank...

Before I started reading things here, I had the car in Ig-On for a LONG time, while I set up the phone, address book, voice tags,...then my driving average was around 26.7 mpg.

Since then, I have been working on some of the driving techniques...I live in a very hilly area, but going down, (coasting) makes up for some of the climbing.

I think my real issue is that I take trips of 5-10 minutes at most....now I try to run many errands in one block of time, and if I run into house for few minutes, leave car in Park and not turn it off.

Got my tires psi up to 40/38...

Now I am up to 31.7 mpg and still have about 1/4 tank to go...

I was going to bring it in for service when I saw the 26 mpg...but now that it is going up, think I'll drive it and learn techniques...I set the AC to Auto and higher temp with lower fan...I have actually been able to get some "dead screen" time when I am able to get up around 40 mpg....and using braking less on the downhill coast....

Love the car.

I think I will cancel my service appointment for next week and work with a few tanks of gas. I only drive about 5500 miles per year now...I just sold my Toyota 1991 Camry for $1800 with only 85,000 miles on it.

John's service manual is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Thank you!

I am reading through it ....I love learning about the car and working toward higher mileage...hope I get at least 40 eventually.

Again...glad to be here.

terri