Just finished washing my car and tried to back it into the garage and now this is happening? Told my wife and she said she experienced the brakes slipping at one point previously but I haven’t. Is this a bigger issue than a battery? Having it towed to Toyota. Only have 38k on the odometer.
After essentially a month of deliberation, as well as reaching out to more or less all dealers in my area, I’ve gotten what I think is a very good deal - $36k CAD OTD (roughly $26k USD) for an SE.
My wife’s current car is a 15-year old Scion with roughly 140k km (87k miles). The car runs fine and hasn’t given us any issues.
This is what we’re struggling with - keep her current car since it’s problem-free, or take advantage of this Prius deal that has better safety and newer tech? Not to mention better fuel economy in these times we live in.
We’re leaning towards upgrading to the Prius, and so wanted to see if anyone’s been in the same situation.
Thanks!
I have a ‘25 Prime and my subscription just ended. I figured I could do without some of the remote start features and what have you because $15/mon on top of my payments to Toyota seems excessive lol
I just noticed today that I can’t even see when the car is charging, its charging status, or if it’s full without paying said $15/mon. 🙃 This seems ridiculous. I don’t think other EV/PHEV companies are charging for basic functionality like that. On top of everything, the car is on my WiFi network lol so I’m not evening use their data package in the car.
Has anyone found like a loophole or replacement service for the lost features? I’ve heard about Dr. Prius but idk if my model even supports it. I’m also wondering if there’s like a Home Assistant plug in to get the data or something lol
(I’m also just upset in general that you have to pay $180/yr for basic functionality and wanted to complain about it online 😁)
My question is for the people that have had their Prius prime for 2 or more years and have the solar roof option. How has it held up after 2 years? Do you regret the option? I live in SoCal so considering how much sun we get, it’s definitely something I’m considering when looking at this car
Does it need some kinda tune up? What should be fixed or replaced?
I run the car for plenty of hours at a time 5 days a week because I deliver for Doordash. I drive on average around 400-500 miles a week, mostly for Doordash. I start in the early afternoons normally, or sometimes right around noon, and rarely before noon, and Dash to around 9-10 PM.
I don't plug in anymore unless I'm at Mom's house because I paid more than $100 extra for electricity the last full billing cycle that I plugged in my car. That amounted to around 20-25 cents per mile on the electric alone. Evergy is a huge ripoff on EV charging.
Also, what other metrics should I measure in this Fueling log from now on?
Edit: To all our Metric friends out here, that is 13.957 kilometers per liter.
I thought LED lights had really long life, but today the passenger visor light of my 2023 Prius Prime failed. Very interesting “not a bulb” construction that appears to be a custom part.
Anyone else needed to replace one of these?
Had my '26 less than 2 weeks when the latch on the plug boke off. I was taking it out of it's holder on the wall when I heard a snap. I didn't pull very hard, just one bare hand. Dealer says it's not covered by warranty because I was using it so it's my fault. How can that be?
Anyone else have similar breakage or warranty rejections?
I'm thinking of ordering a Prius Prime from my local dealer, but one issue is that they don't have any in stock right now so I can't see sizes of it in person. I have a Honda Insight right now where I put the back seats down to put my bike in my trunk, I was wondering if anyone was doing this with the Prius Prime and can share if there is enough trunk space to do that.
I figure the Prius Prime being a hatchback rather than a sedan would make it way easier to fit the bike in the trunk, I'm mostly concerned about length.
Has anyone removed the HOV stickers that were required for driving in the HOV lanes? Shortly after I put them on the car, they made them useless by invalidating them.
I could leave them on and see what the long term effects on the paint will be, or try to remove them before it creates permanent marks and become more of an eyesore as they fade and degrade.
Hair dryer perhaps to loosen its grip? Or is everyone just living with them?
Just a note to anyone wanting to use my room mode, which is in itself pretty awesome, but there is a small crevit, it does not function when the battery is already at 100%, it will not pull power from an EVSE, and it will leave you an accessory mode.
I was a little surprised, I've never tried to use it at 100% before, But we were killing time in the parking garage and I was still plugged up and attempted to get it into my room mode, but it refused, it didn't even prompt the option.
So this is just an FYI to everyone.
Under .5 hour trip - roof rack
.5 - 2 hour trip - hitch rack
Over 2 hour trip - inside car, seats down and wheels removed
Just got a new Prius PHEV several weeks ago, and I'm interested in getting a 3-channel dash cam installed (I want interior since I might be doing occasional ride share). What is everyone using? I'd like a seamless OEM look to the extent possible, or at the very least not have cables running across my windshield/dash. I'm fairly handy when it comes to installation, although I've never wired any electronics on a new vehicle like this. I'd be willing to pay for professional installation and wiring if that would be better.
Would love folks' recommendations!
My car was broken into the other night, not much stolen, but after a few days I got an alert of a new key fob being registered…
I brought it to the dealership where they confirmed besides my two, that two additional key fobs were registered. I paid them to remove the two unknown fobs. But after a week I got another alert for a new key fob registered. I’m wondering now if it’s just a technical glitch, unsure how worried I should be.
Has anyone else experienced this?
2019 Prius Prime
Hey! I'm getting new tires for my 2020 Prius Prime upgrade. Any suggestions?
I was hoping someone would help guide me in the right direction of what part this is that I need to replace. I did not hit anything, so nothing is damaged, but it appears that the cover fell off somewhere and I lost it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!