Six month report

[fbhjr]

I’ve now had the PriusC for 6 months and just over 10,000 miles.

We will have to see how it does when the snow comes, but in spring and summer it was fantastic.
My average miles per gallon of gas is just under 50, and that is due to it taking me a tank or two to learn how to get good at it.


There are only two things I don’t like about it:
The rear windshield wiper is set for a driver on the right side. Great in Japan where it is made, less useful here.
I can’t have the air conditioning blow on me through the vents and the windshield at the same time. I can do my feet and the windshield together, but not on me.

My wife doesn’t like that it hurts her butt to sit in it for more than an hour. But, she can write her own review of it.

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[phoenixisrisen.livejournal.com]

You got the little one!

Mine gets a pretty consistent 44-46 mpg.
I love my lil red car. :)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I am quite happy with my little aqua one as well.
I usually get between 50 and 52 mph.
But, some of the trips we take do much worse or much better.
It seems to hate upstate New York....

[phoenixisrisen.livejournal.com]

I think the worst this one has gotten is 43 (doing 80 on long trips). When I filled up today, my mileage for this tank was 49.5. When I lived in AZ my old one was not fond of mountains- my mileage would drop to 38 when I went over the mountains.

I wonder why the seats areso uncomfy to your wife? I found that for a small inexpensive car, its the most comfy of all the ones I've had. Only my trucks were more comfy, but heck, they were big things.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Along the front edge of the seat there is a stiffer section. I'm sure it is there so the seat is not broken down over time as people get in and out.
But, that harder section hits her legs in a place that cause them to cramp if she sits there for a long time. (More than an hour or so.)
It is just a case of the way it fits her specifically.

Putting a towel over it seems to help a lot.

[phoenixisrisen.livejournal.com]

My ex-MIL would get uncomfortable in almost any seat after an hour or so- she ended up buying a gel seat pad, which solved the issue in 9% of the cases.

I hope y'all find a similar fix, cuz that really can ruin a car for you- ages ago I owned one w/seats that did me like that, and the thought of making long car trips made me cringe.