Joining the Prius club

Congrats, waiting 5 days for delivery?

 

What color did you get ?
and welcome!
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How does that work ? I thought decisions are pretty immediate in the e-loan era.

 

welcome barb, congratulations!

 

Nice!

 

The forum has recently been called out for not being as friendly as it use to be.

Therefore I'm just going to say:

WELCOME! WELCOME! WELCOME! Hope you enjoy your Prius, trust you will find Prius Chat a wonderful source of Prius and Hybrid information, as well as a relaxing place to discuss numerous topics.

Seriously?....welcome. I always recommend a new person to Prius, actually focus on just driving the Prius as per normal, at least for the first few weeks. The system does a good job of creating efficiency automatically. Once you get more familiar with the vehicle as the vehicle, you can if you wish start learning more about the car.

Really you can just operate it pretty much like any vehicle. If you aren't familiar with the Smart Key System and push button start/stop, the important thing is being sure you have powered off when leaving the vehicle. And really? This is as simple as being sure you hit the power button when you are done driving.

Some new first time owners can ace themselves out, paying too close attention to trying to master "Prius and Hybrid Synergy Drive". Just drive it like it's a Ford Taurus for the first few weeks, and marvel at the fact that it is NOT, when you don't have to fill up nearly as much.

If you have the time, reading the owners manual can head off a lot of questions.

 

Don't listen to him. You are not a real Prius owner until you happily fart super clean gas, and get honked at by a diesel

 

Hey, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with this.

In an effort to be part of the "Friendly" solution, I did my best to curtail any sarcastic vitriol about my general disappointment in Sea Glass Pearl as a color choice.

To the OP:- (clenched jaw)- Great color choice. When the light hit's it just right it's stunning. Absolutely stunning.

 

Welcome! How much are you paying for prius?

 

Since you still need to pick up your prius just know you have an option to have dealer change the constant beeping when backing up to one beep. You can do same with seat belt too.

Mine didn't tell me so I need wait till I take it in for 5k maintenance.

Keyless entry and start is very convenient.

 

We love the button too. The push button arrived over a decade ago, in 2004 (our model) & was WAY high tech. Still ... when you compare the button to the Model S Tesla, that doesn't even have a button !! . . . . with the Tesla fob on your person (shaped like a Tesla!!)

- you just get in, foot on brake, put into Drive or Reverse, and go! Who'd of thought the seemingly modern push button would so quickly become passé.
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You will get used to the push button start real fast and you will like it. You got a good deal and a great reliable car. Won't cost very much to drive it either.

 

Its not getting used to the push button start, its getting used to starting the car without hearing the car start that I think will take time (bought my prius yesterday).

 

A common newbie experience is forgetting to shut the car down. Come to think of it, I still forget occasionally but since I always exit the car with the key Fob in my fanny pack, the Prius beeps at me until I figure out why s/he is unhappy.