Well folks, I regret buying my Prius. And Toyota (both the dealer and the manufacturer) have been nothing but antagonistic and unpleasant since the second they got my money.
I only bought the car for the mileage. I was getting good mileage on my previous car, so it wasn't worth it to buy this unless I got a big jump in mileage.
I'm not. I haven't since day one. I called about it early on, they said the car needed to "break in". I called about it weeks later, they said the car needed to "break in". I gave the car 1500 miles, they said the car needed to "break in".
They never said when it would be broken in... after their original estimate of 1000 miles...
I borrowed a Prius loaner from the dealer while they had mine in service. It had only 500 miles on it, and it got far better mileage than mine. In fact, I tested both of them in identical runs mere hours apart, and the loaner got in the mid 50s, while I got in the low 40s.
It's unforgivably bad. It was a huge waste of money, and Toyota is refusing to do anything about it. They say the car's fine, the mileage is fine, there's no error codes, and they don't feel that they should be bound to have cars operate even close to each other in economy. So I get stuck with the lousy car that doesn't work well, and I'm out 24 thousand dollars for a poorly operating car.
You name it folks, I've tried it to get this car working right. It's not.
What a shame, and here I had really looked forward to the Prius all the time I had waited.
I only bought the car for the mileage. I was getting good mileage on my previous car, so it wasn't worth it to buy this unless I got a big jump in mileage.
I'm not. I haven't since day one. I called about it early on, they said the car needed to "break in". I called about it weeks later, they said the car needed to "break in". I gave the car 1500 miles, they said the car needed to "break in".
They never said when it would be broken in... after their original estimate of 1000 miles...
I borrowed a Prius loaner from the dealer while they had mine in service. It had only 500 miles on it, and it got far better mileage than mine. In fact, I tested both of them in identical runs mere hours apart, and the loaner got in the mid 50s, while I got in the low 40s.
It's unforgivably bad. It was a huge waste of money, and Toyota is refusing to do anything about it. They say the car's fine, the mileage is fine, there's no error codes, and they don't feel that they should be bound to have cars operate even close to each other in economy. So I get stuck with the lousy car that doesn't work well, and I'm out 24 thousand dollars for a poorly operating car.
You name it folks, I've tried it to get this car working right. It's not.
What a shame, and here I had really looked forward to the Prius all the time I had waited.