Things that still annoy me after 9 months...

I looked down to find the pwr switch yesterday and was half way off the road before I found it and looked back up.......but for me it will always be the uncomfortable drivers seat!!!!

 

What do u like about your v?

 

everything else

 

are you going to try and second guess toyota? forget it. maybe in the future someone will wise up.

 

I wondered why the Liftback Four and Five have a power driver's seat, yet the v 5 doesn't? I would have liked a v 4 option as well.

 

If that is all that aggrivates you.......that's good news! Never had a car, house, etc., that was not absolutely perfect.

 

The cloth armrest is the most annoying thing. I hope toyota fix this with a softex one in 2014 and I will swap it out.

I got used to or fixed most other little issues.

 

The lack of signal mirrors baffles me as well, along with no power adjustable seat option. I almost went with the liftback with ATP just to get the power seats but it cost a fair bit more than the v with softex seats so the v it was for me, the extra room doesn't hurt either. Happy to report the seats are great, who knows the liftback might have better/worse for driving comfort, i'll probably never know. I found the v seats a little uncomfortable on long trips at first but i think i've finally found a good driving position which lets me cruise comfortably now for 4-5 hours, no back aches.

 

amen brother. What were they thinking making the texture rough? Don't need rough texture to get grip, geeez.

Tell you what though, I bought a Wheelskins cover out of Berkeley (sorry PC shop, but I live 20 miles south of Berkeley), put the time in to lace it. Although it's a cover and although it bunches a bit around the spokes, the feel is Xquisite. No lie, I've nothing to gain from plugging Wheelskins. Great modification, highly recommend.

When looking at pics of Wheelskins, I wondered if I'd trip out over how it covers the silver trim pieces. pffft. no way. I would do the mod over in a heartbeat.

Your other option would be to buy an aftermarket wheel out of Japan like Silk Blaze, JDM piano black. search it out here.

 

Prius v
Prius c
Model S
Model X

2012 Acura tsx = 3 months of XM/Sirius

When I look at the Summary of proposed improvements for future year/versions of Prius, I wonder how much it is going to cost. Summary of proposed improvements for future versions of Prius | PriusChat

 

Why would you want power adjustable seat?
Power adjustable seats would be very slow, especially putting the front seat in recline position. With manual setting, just lifting one bar and the set is down about 1sec.; how long would it take to recline the seats by pressing the button?
Not to mention it is prone to break after a period of time and most likely your ignition need to be in 1st position.

If they ever introduced standard power adjustable sets I would never buy it :-/

 

A 2K+ mile road trip left me with several irritants, but none larger than the difference in height between the door arm rest and the center console rest.

 

Nothing here is any different from the day you bought the car. The way you could have made your point would have been to not purchase the car.

 

some things you can't figure out untill you have owned the car awhile, for me the seats didn't bother me on either of the 2 test drives and still didn't until a couple of weeks of ownership

 

You have a point. Never really thought about it too much but the one advantage i can forsee is being able to fine tune the adjustment while driving. As it is, i have to set it while parked then start driving and hope its comfortable, if not make adjustments next time i stop, much easier to get a comfortable seat position with power option.
That aside i probably would never purchase with the power seat option either as it would likely be way outside my budget, the luxury package v i have is stretching the finances as it is.

 

I suppose seats are like shoes, its a personal love/hate thing. Decided to go test drive a liftback today, got a crazy idea in my head to maybe trade in my v for a base model liftback to save some money on payments and a little on fuel as I don't really need all the extra space in the v. I sat in a base model liftback in the showroom and it felt great, fit me like a glove. took one for a test drive and not so good. immediately noticed lower back pain on the test drive that didn't go away with any sort of seat adjustment. The adjustable lumbar on my v is wonderful. after getting back in my v and driving home it was a welcome relief, changed my mind on the trade in, no matter the extra cost of owning the v. I think of all the prius family the v has the best seats, but thats just me.

 

are you kidding! the difference is night and day. my father, rest his soul. always said he didn't need power windows, unless his arm was broken. (he also didn't need air cond in his house, new furniture, tv, refrig, washer, dryer, roof shingles, or anything else that wore out long before 40 years.) until the last few years of his life he felt he had to replace everything! i think if you have the means, do try to make your life a little more enjoyable before it's too late.