Speaking of the Prius... Real world expierence.

[Midniteoyl]

Well, my opinion is that it's a sweet ride. Got a 2011 with about 50k. It has been trouble free. It does love tires.
It is a really good driver. Tons of power.I would not be surprised if we get a second one when this one wears out.

Those tires are not that good for some reason.. I bought some with <8k miles on them and they only lasted another 20k miles on my Audi.. Funny thing is they are 'low rolling resistance' tires and thus should be a little harder and last longer.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I ahve a Chevy Monza once with the Buick 3.8l V6.. The passenger side spark plug instructions started with 'Remove right fender..'

I believe that was the same procedure for the GM mini van with the 4.3.

Chris

 

[chrisott]

I have a 2007 Prius with about 140K miles on it. I use touring tires in the summer and full snow tires in the winter. Everything is great about the car except the electronic skid control. I have had the car shut off and start sliding backwards on a hill in a snow storm on more than one occasion. The skid control starts by trying to correct a skid, my controlled skidding as I gun it up a hill, and then I guess the computer code figures if the car is not moving, it can't skid so cuts the power to the engine. The problem is the cars behind you don't expect your car to start sliding back at them. I talked to Toyota about this and it went all the way to some national center and I was told this is how the car operates. I was getting 73 mpg in 2007 before they put 10% EtOH in the gas. Now I get 58 mpg with my touring tires and 10%EtOH gas and about 50 mpg with my snow tires and about 48 mpg with the heat and lights on.

 

[AchingBack]

Im not sure why its much of an issue. The plugs in my Subaru were changed for the first time at 300K miles. Not that difficult, but who cares? at that change interval.
larry

The position of the plugs in a Subaru have nothing in common with a Chrysler mini-van. If you haven't had to do it, you'd be like a novice mechanic who thought changing four plugs was as easy as changing his underwear, and said; looks pretty easy to me.

 

[m larro]

I have a 2005 Prius with about 99K miles on it. Love mine and haven't had any problems with it.

 

[bandaidmd]

back in the "old" days of the early 80's we didn't get 100k plus out of spark plugs. lol

 

[bandaidmd]

I have a 2007 Prius with about 140K miles on it. I use touring tires in the summer and full snow tires in the winter. Everything is great about the car except the electronic skid control. I have had the car shut off and start sliding backwards on a hill in a snow storm on more than one occasion. The skid control starts by trying to correct a skid, my controlled skidding as I gun it up a hill, and then I guess the computer code figures if the car is not moving, it can't skid so cuts the power to the engine. The problem is the cars behind you don't expect your car to start sliding back at them. I talked to Toyota about this and it went all the way to some national center and I was told this is how the car operates. I was getting 73 mpg in 2007 before they put 10% EtOH in the gas. Now I get 58 mpg with my touring tires and 10%EtOH gas and about 50 mpg with my snow tires and about 48 mpg with the heat and lights on.

Theres no doubt that e10 hurts mileage, Its really noticeable on motorcycles where the trip odometer is your main fuel gauge.
Some guy was in line ahead of me in the hardware store this week was buying a gallon of Toulene as a gas additive claiming a 10% or more increase in MPG, first i had heard of that.

 

[savageactor7]

Good to hear about the OP's experience with hybrids. They'll just get better and hopefully less expensive when more companies enter and compete for the hybrid market.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I've never owned a Toyota but I did buy a 94 Lexus SC400 for my son...
I can attest to the quality of that car...
I consider them Toyota's on steroids...
He fell asleep at the wheel and turned it over with his fiancee...
Hit a concrete bridge railing and the car flipped on it's top...
They both walked away...
I hope that my next car is a 3 to 4 year old 400 series Lexus...

 

[houstonscott]

If you bought a Lexus you bought a Toyota.

HS