I haven't been all that active here, but have posted some about my '03 bought back in 2018, and to try to help others where I could. The '03 threw a P3006 last month and I just decided it was time to get into something newer. It was at 220K and other than the A/C not working everything was in order. But it was 6 yrs into a remanned hybrid battery and it threw the P3006. (Which I cleared and then drove it around for a week with no further problems, but the writing was on the wall). So I guess I figured time to grow up. I sold it running and driving for $800. Considering that I paid $2700 for it 7 yrs ago, and drove it for almost 60K miles, I think I came out ok on the whole thing. Cool little go-karts. Addicted to 46 mpg I found a new "Snowflake" (a.k.a. a new white Prius). It's a 2013 and has 144K, and I actually bought it from a Toyota dealer, which is not my style. But it was a one owner car bought and serviced religiously at the same Toyota dealer, and I have all of the records. Anyway, the Snowflake 1 and Snowflake 2:
Congrats! All the best. NOW.... Your newly adopted G3 isn't LIKE the G1 you just parted company with! You need to familiarize yourself with the pitfalls of the 'turd-gen' as some people call them. -ESPECIALLY for a "dealer-maintained" G3!!! Good Luck!!!!
I also replaced a gen 1 with a gen 3, and I've been happy. One difference you may notice: in gen 1, you could shift to B while using cruise control, and then the cruise control would be able to hold your speed on downhills as well as on uphills. In gen 3, you actually can't use cruise when in B, or shift to B and stay in cruise. Which disappointed me bitterly, until I figured out the gen 3 cruise control will just naturally do what you needed cruise+B to do in gen 1.
Nice! I'm, still, piling up the miles in my 21 Blizzard Pearl 4WD Prius. (My wife nicknamed her Mini Pearl but younger folks won't get that.) Did you price out fixing the A/C in the old Prius? I once had a 92 Subaru Legacy (hand-me-down from Dad) that was an amazing car but the A/C went out and they told me $2,000 to fix it....was more than the car was worth at that time....ouch.
Ha! We thought about doing that! Our Tundra pulls a Forest River Rockwood camper so they are named Rocky and Bullwinkle!!
