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Consider the pot stirred, sir :-) I've owned about a dozen or so cars so far in my life, and acceleration-wise the Prius is in the fast half of...
I haven't experienced any obvious discrimination yet in two years of ownership, but here in Massachusetts every other car seems to be a Prius, so...
Ah yes, it will do that to get enough engine braking to keep the set speed. If it didn't do that, it would gain an arbitrary amount of speed down...
I have just the regular Escape, but the transmission definitely behaves differently with cruise control on versus off. On a steep hill, it will...
I generally like Scotty, but he does have an alarmist tone to his videos, and he got this one wrong. The "generator" he's talking about is...
Interesting. For comparison, we recently inherited an '07 F150 which at the time had 26k miles and had been used for the very occasional trip to...
Yes that does sound excessive. Is there anything notable in your wife's driving patterns? Specifically, does it get regularly highway mileage...
Funny thing is, I bought a Prius then shortly afterwards inherited a low-mileage F150 that burns 3x the gas. I have thought, in the back of my...
If you think you might need to make a warranty claim, it's best not to have evidence of "misuse" on the internet: "The buzz in online communities...
Here's a data point: 2014 Prius with 18k miles, and about 8.5k miles since last (first, only) oil change. The oil level has dropped not quite a...
Call me old fashioned, but that sounds good for a car with over 100k miles. Modern cars generally consume less oil per mile than cars made 20+...
You also appear to be in Texas, big difference from up north in the amount of road salt.
You must not have heard about Toyota pickups rusting so badly that their spare tires fall out: Toyota Tundra Investigated For Severe Frame Rust...
I looked up a few on Google. The P030x are "universal" (not just Toyota/Prius) codes for misfires on cylinder x. P0172 is "too rich". P3190 is...
The auto manufacturers put a lot of effort into making cars that require as little maintenance as possible, and the general trend has been less...
The inverter and engine have separate cooling systems, so #2 and #3 are different. The transaxle is a transmission and differential combined, so...
For those of us that also own aging Fords and Chevys, we tend to get a bit paranoid especially as the miles add up :-)
But the point is that if you're not checking, then you won't know if you have issues until something catastrophic happens. For example, if you...
... but if the odds aren't with you, a lot can go wrong in 5K miles. What if you're using burning more oil in the hot summer than in the cold...
I frequently end up in a similar situation on the Merritt Parkway, which thankfully doesn't allow trucks. Here's my advice: 1) You generally...
