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Take the money you would spend on the "plan" and put it in a interest bearing CD account. If you need the money for something major you can make a withdrawal.

Dealers make "PROFIT" on these plans. They seldom pay for themselves.

Ron

 

kewl

 

I'm not sure if your son's car seat is more technologically advanced or not than the Prius. Definitely well suited, at least!

 

Very intelligent lady and pretty too!

Ron

 

As for tinting, I went with Prestige Spectra Photosync. It's a high end film that is the current top-of-the-line in heat rejection, even over the current year 3M Crystalline. (It's also got the high-end price to match. )

(Website) PhotoSync™ - Prestige Film Technologies
(Video Demo)

The point that sold me was their spectrophotometer graph of heat rejection across all up and down the e-m spectrum from UV to all of Near IR (a lot more thorough than the specs of any competitors) from here:
http://www.prestige-films.com/docs/Photosync_DataSheet.pdf

On top of that, the demos seem to corroborate the claims--demoing against actual sunlight is more informative than demoing against heat lamps, which are limited to narrow ranges of wavelength output, and I've yet to hear a single detractor or negative opinion against the film from anyone who's had it (you can find some for 3M's top-o'-the-line, though most are based on experiences with the older film under the same name).

 

Wow.

Your trees have leaves on them!

Make sure you have the solar roof button in the "in" position before you shut down the car when you park.

You can leave the button in that position from now on and it'll work any time there's sun and the interior is warm.

 

I think the black wheels are under the hubcaps and people just take them off. Some add center caps.

 

I'm still not very adept at navigating this board, but I've seen several pictures here with the stock black rims (I think). It seems to be fairly common and popular, and lots of people just add the center caps. One of the first things my husband noticed about the Prius when I first got it was, "looks like it has some pretty decent black rims under those caps." I don't care enough to change anything about it, but if he did, I wouldn't care. He doesn't drive it, so he isn't terribly motivated beyond commenting about it. I am with you on the annoyance of hubcaps deteriorating or breaking. It drives me up a wall to see hubcaps bouncing around on a moving car like the tire is wobbling because something is loose or out of whack. At that point, I will care enough to snatch those suckers off and embrace the naked rims look.

Anyway, maybe someone will be along with the requisite link(s) here on the stock rims, or if you browse around, you're bound to come across them with lots of pictures. My navigation skills here are sorely lacking.

 

The wheelcovers are supposed to improve the aerodynamics, if I recall correctly.

On my 2011 the wheels underneath are attractive silver painted alloy wheels. I bought caps for the center holes and have left off the wheelcovers.

The solar system has a two position pushbutton to the left of the steering column, near the instrument panel lighting control. When the system is turned on the button is very slightly recessed (but it's hard to judge until you've tried it).

 

Good enough.

The only reason you'll need to know where the button is, is if you bump it accidentally sometime and turn it off.

 

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