Load capacity of Prius?
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What, prius07?
Don't you have "auto climate control" in your prius? How old is it? It has an old-fashioned wood-burning pellet stove/fireplace in your Prius [for a heat source (hee,hee)]? Is there room for that inside the passenger cabin or is it another energy source of the hybrid system under the hood (hee,hee)?
Just having a little fun with you here. Take it lightly.
Ken (in Bolton,Ct)
Don't you have "auto climate control" in your prius? How old is it? It has an old-fashioned wood-burning pellet stove/fireplace in your Prius [for a heat source (hee,hee)]? Is there room for that inside the passenger cabin or is it another energy source of the hybrid system under the hood (hee,hee)?
Just having a little fun with you here. Take it lightly.
Ken (in Bolton,Ct)
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Technical correction, at least for the 2005 Prius. The manual says 825 lbs, including passengers.Hep said:
Also, it is always an occasion when talking about this to mention the website: http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Overload.htm , where you can see how some people load their car.
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I'm a little dumb, so thats 800 pounds (counting the weight of each passenger) so if you have 4 people that weigh 250 you can only take 3 of them? 
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My 06 manual says 810 pounds
I told the people in my department they weren't allowed to fill it up (we packed it to capacity before i read my manual), now they're all mad cause I called them FAT.. haha.
I told the people in my department they weren't allowed to fill it up (we packed it to capacity before i read my manual), now they're all mad cause I called them FAT.. haha.
If you search the forums for a thread titled "Nebraska ate my Prius," I recount my tale of a cross-country trip.
In short: We had four adults, one infant, and a full trunk of gear. While I never did weigh the gear, the passengers were a total of about 800 pounds, and the trunk was quite literally completely full, with the 'hideaway compartment' lid removed, and sliding shade removed, and packed by a Tetris expert completely to the glass. I'd estimate a conservative minimum of 100 pounds of stuff. (Plus the gear packed in the back seat's footspace in front of the baby, and a few assorted personal bags in the footspace of the various passengers. Purses, my laptop and camera case, etc: i.e. things that were needed on the drive itself.)
This was for a 3000 mile each way trip. Each half driven nonstop, with a week in between coming and going. The only problem was when a tire disintegrated on a really nasty gravel road. (I suppose overloading could have contributed, but I did have the tire pressure at Toyota spec, instead of my normal +4 PSI.)
In short: We had four adults, one infant, and a full trunk of gear. While I never did weigh the gear, the passengers were a total of about 800 pounds, and the trunk was quite literally completely full, with the 'hideaway compartment' lid removed, and sliding shade removed, and packed by a Tetris expert completely to the glass. I'd estimate a conservative minimum of 100 pounds of stuff. (Plus the gear packed in the back seat's footspace in front of the baby, and a few assorted personal bags in the footspace of the various passengers. Purses, my laptop and camera case, etc: i.e. things that were needed on the drive itself.)
This was for a 3000 mile each way trip. Each half driven nonstop, with a week in between coming and going. The only problem was when a tire disintegrated on a really nasty gravel road. (I suppose overloading could have contributed, but I did have the tire pressure at Toyota spec, instead of my normal +4 PSI.)
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