Picking up my new to me 2006 Prius tomorrow...

First of all... congratulations on your purchase! I would recommend a website for you to look over. It has great information and can probably answer most of your questions. John has spent time putting together a comprehensive (with pictures) list of user maintenance items.

John's Stuff - Toyota Prius and more (most of the info you want is under 'Prius Info')

When you get your car you can register it with Toyota on the website. This will get you access to service manuals, schedules and additional information.

I would look over the information before I did service that was not required. These are great cars with not much maintenance requirements. You will find your brakes will last about twice as long as a normal cars. Oil changes are every 5,000 miles.

Do some checking here on tires but many people are recommending the Michelin Hydroedge as a good compromise tire (nice quiet ride, okay mpg).

 

Congrats, I'm just going thru 70,000 myself with my 06
had both front and rear brakes off yesterday front shoes are more than half worn rear are less than half worn
already replaced my plugs
I find the way toyota placed the plugs to be amusing, hope you do
enjoy

 

Sounds good, but remember that anything involving the brake fluid is *not* a DIY job. Toyota diagnostic equipment is required to bleed the system correctly.

Many here like Nokians and Goodyear Assurance Fuelmax. The new Michelin fuel savers (?) are promising, but no reportd experience yet.

 

well have fun with it I love mine just look what I have done to it so far and not done with it yet .

 

Welcome to PriusChat. You might find the following to be useful:

Here's the 2006 Prius eBrochure: 06_prius.pdf

Here's the 2007 Prius Owner's Manual: 2007 Prius Owners Manual.pdf . I think that 99+% of it must be identical to the 2006 Prius Owner's Manual.

After registering on Toyota Owners Online, you can download sections of the 2006 Prius Owner's Manual and Navigation Manual in pdf files, as well as the complete 2006 Prius Maintenance Schedule.

You can also get the 2006 Prius Maintenance Schedule on edmunds.com.

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For a good passenger all season tire, especially for rain and snow, I like the Goodyear Assurance TripleTred very much. Or consider getting the Michelin X-Radial tire at Costco or other club stores. It performs substantially as well as the TripleTred, but has lower rolling resistance so it should get you better gas mileage.

Although some people have recently been getting the new Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to you because Goodyear itself rates the Fuel Max's performance in snow as mediocre -- on par with the OEM Goodyear Integrity.

Note that the United States OEM tire size for the 15" wheel is 185/65R15, and that a lot of good tires may not come in that size. Personally I like to use the alternative 195/60R15 size anyway because I like the better handling and braking that the 10mm greater treadwidth should bring.