My first highway trip: 4.9L/100 km

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  1. Tideland Prius

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    Bring in the shrinking bladder jokes :D haha. Well it is 7 years 5 months old.
     
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    haha :)
    Off topic: I see you have LEDs in the foot wells. I want to wire mine thru the rheostat on the dash (next to the steering column) to control the intensity of the LEDs and via a switch to actually power them. Do you have a circuit diagram that shows the rheostat? I cannot seem to find one.
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    No I don't, sorry. The ones I have were JDM OEM accessories. They just stick the underside of plastic bits in the footwell and crimp onto the wires that I assume are linked to the overhead lighting. It was also in Japanese so I just used the diagrams lol.

    With the number of blank spots to the left, you could install your own switch instead of tapping into the rheostat (the only other person on this site that uses this word!).
     
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    I'm used to working on my classic cars.....and my brain is still in the stone age, technologically......
     
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    Oh... I just thought it was the proper term lol. (saw it in a brochure once back in 1995, not in North America obviously since here they use "dimmer switch")
     
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    latest fill-up: 674.4 km, 29.115 liters, MFD=4.4L/100 km, ScanGauge = 4.4L/100 km and spread-sheet shows 4.32L/100 km
     
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    Nice!! You guys were basking in summer-like temps over the weekend!
     
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    Yep, its hitting 25C during the day, but nice and cool at night.....
     
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    We had 8cm of snow this morning.
     
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    Ouch......and today's 68 km shopping loop returned 4.0L/100 km. The car does like warm weather....
     
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    The roads were a skating rink yesterday as wet snow/slush froze as the temps dipped below zero in the afternoon. They're bare and wet now after the crews worked all night, last night.
     
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    Roads bare and dry here.....cooler than last week, but still above 'normal'
     
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    Latest tankful: 474.1 km, temps low single digit Celsius:

    MFD: 4.4L/100 km;
    ScanGauge: 4.4L/100 km; and
    Manual spreadsheet: 4.43L/100 km.
     
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