Watch out for warping dash

Let me defend my defensiveness here.
1)Pointing out an issue with Dash warping is good, helpful and much appreciated.
2)Extending that information into a complaint about having had to have several recalls and that this will likely be the OP's last Toyota is a different animal that makes me, for one, reconsider the value of #1 above....is it being reported in a non-biased fair way or is it being exagerated for the sake of satisfying someone's need to bitch about a car that didn't live up to his/her expectations.
3)It came in the OP's first post to the board. Never came here to ask questions learn, share info before, but now he's frustrated and angry and he just came, at least in part, to vent that frustration.

Despite the suggestion of some in this thread and others my love of my car does NOT make me blind to it's issues...it clearly has some. My efforts have been directed at finding solutions, helping others with those fixes, etc. I put the Pluses and Minuses into their respective columns and I find my positives to be much much greater than the minues...most of which I'd anticipated (at least in general) before buying and deciding to accept the possibility of some difficulties.

 

All the '04s should have the SSC-50P, several early had a thing for a piece of weather stripping...can't remember the number on that one...one of the first believed causes of the sudden shut downs.

There were others too that elude me that all '04s should have gotten...the brake light is one, of course. Someone fill in the others.

 

This site does not, normally, "bash the new guy" and I'm sorry you feel that's what we've (I've) done.

Imagine the following, if you will:
You post had consisted of the following only:

Let the replies and questions come, then, in follow up, add your response from Toyota Corporate, what you'd done to try to resolve it, etc. As others sympathised with your plight you could add comments about your frustration and disappointment with the Prius.

I'm just saying that there's a good way and a bad way to make a first post on this or any web site. When your first one is a complaint/problem along with a tone of 'I hate my car', you're going to get some push back from the loyalists.

I sincerely hope you can get Toyota to cover some or all of the cost of repair and will, strongly, recommend using a sunshield.

I hope this will not be your last posted thread on the site, we have a lot to offer here. Others have gotten off on the 'wrong foot', so to speak in the past and gone on to become some of our best contributors. I hope you do as well.

 

I'm quite relaxed. My 'Blog' (with what, 2 posts?) is a totally different thing than my postings within the forum. Although I'm opinionated I'm also balanced...a fair reading should show you that even within this thread. I'm a straight shooter, I pull no punches, but I think I'm fair. If there's somewhere I've been out of line in this thread please point it out, I'm not above apologizing, I've needed to before and will again.

You state in the last post
"It is fine to love your car. My current situation with mine should not threaten the loyalists so. Just stating the facts. "

1)I assure you I do not feel threatened in the least.
2)You went beyond "just stating the facts", you stated opinion, implied that there's some problem with Toyota in general, and in general gave a tone of complaining about the car. My suggestion in my last post was one where you did, indeed, just state the facts...after the facts you editorialized. In many cases here that's fine. Someone with 1000+ posts here we know their personality, we know where they stand and their opinions can easily be put into perspective. Your first post doesn't give us that opportunity and we have no way to know if you're a troll or what. I think we're all getting a better idea of your personality at this point. Until you tried to discount my post by pointing to a quote from my blog I was gaining respect and felt that you just made a bit of a faux-paux in your editorialization. Now I'm sorta back to square one with you and will wait and see what/if anything you have to contribute to this community before finalizing my opinion.

My statements that I hope you become a good contributor are honest and sinceere.

 

Those are some excellent thoughts! In fact, it might go a long way to getting the repairs covered under warranty b/c if the dash warping could affect the airbag deployment that would be a safety hazard and could even warrant a formal recall. I have no way of knowing if it is a hazard, but if the warping is enough to affect deployment in the designed fashion it probably would be.

 

I edited your post above to quote properly for readability only.

Again, the editorializing in itself wouldn't be a big issue in context. You gave us little or no context...we didn't know you, your first post, etc.

Dude, hang around a while, keep giving us info, let us learn who you are....make a few posts in Fred's so we can get a sense of your personality...then we'll know what to make of your editorializations a bit better.

I'm square, was never upset, but want to kepe things on the up and up. I get a sense that you do to. Sorry I missed the smiley and I'm glad you didn't mean that in an ill way.