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    Northern California Dealer Experience & Pricing

    Just a quick plug, though, remember to be aware that you can get the Toyota extended warranties (and maintenance contracts) on this car via the...
    Post by: bparrish, Jun 11, 2005 in forum: Dealers & Pricing
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    Feds Investigate Hot-Selling Toyota Hybrid

    (Edited to clarify sub subject: as regards to the possibility of the car moving before 'fully booted')... When it happened to me on 27 May, we...
    Post by: bparrish, Jun 7, 2005 in forum: Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News
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    Feds Investigate Hot-Selling Toyota Hybrid

    There seem to be so many threads active about this, I'm not sure where to put this, but this thread has been active recently, so we'll try here....
    Post by: bparrish, Jun 7, 2005 in forum: Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News
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    13 shutdown cases reported for Toyota Prius

    When I first got my 04 (around Sept 1 2004), I once had the dash light up like a christmas tree, and several reboots fixed the problem. When I...
    Post by: bparrish, May 28, 2005 in forum: Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News
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    Residential solar panels?

    If you go battery-based, then you either need to have enough batteries to run the whole house, or, if you are going to just try to keep some...
    Post by: bparrish, Jan 7, 2005 in forum: Fred's House of Pancakes
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    Residential solar panels?

    Second the motion on home power. Just a few short comments from my own experience with this. If you can go 'non battery' based, it's less...
    Post by: bparrish, Jan 3, 2005 in forum: Fred's House of Pancakes
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    Twins

    I stopped at Starbuck's (Auburn, Ca) this morning, and as I was leaving, another Salsa parked next to me... I just took a 'phone' picture, and a...
    Thread by: bparrish, Dec 16, 2004, 2 replies, in forum: Gen 2 Prius Main Forum
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    Nokia 6820 questions/problems

    Someone at work showed me how to do the 'bluetooth button'. It certainly makes it easier to switch on-and-off. You probably want it 'off' if...
    Post by: bparrish, Nov 20, 2004 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Audio and Electronics
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    When you give up on waiting...

    Just fo grins, I decided to see if I could find one in the Chicago area. I don't know if it's for real or not ('mileage' seems to vary on these...
    Post by: bparrish, Nov 19, 2004 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Main Forum
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    When you give up on waiting...

    This sounds REAL familiar. (If you search this forum, you can read all the sordid details). Just before Labor Day, after being on a list for...
    Post by: bparrish, Nov 19, 2004 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Main Forum
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    Display won't go to night mode

    Victor's exactly right here. After noticing that the car wasn't switching to night mode, the next day, when I had some time to fiddle with...
    Post by: bparrish, Nov 18, 2004 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    Prius Navigation System- It sucks.

    There's one additional complication about the DVD version. If you go to the normal Menu +MAP DVD display, the version number comes out V3.03......
    Post by: bparrish, Nov 13, 2004 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Main Forum
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    Cleaning the touch screen

    Kensington Wipes (designed for laptop PCs). Comes in two packets, a 'wet' cloth and a 'dry' cloth. Use wet first, and dry with the dry one.
    Post by: bparrish, Oct 17, 2004 in forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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    HOw long does it take for license plates to arrive in Ca?

    Re: HOw long does it take for license plates to arrive in Ca Just got plates today (2 Oct). Picked up car on 8/28. So 4-5 weeks is in the...
    Post by: bparrish, Oct 2, 2004 in forum: Fred's House of Pancakes