2016 Prius open questions

...well Gen3 has the smaller button battery CR1632 vs. the bigger CR2032 in the Gen2 fob. Just a couple days ago I was posting I don't know how the smaller battery lasts so long. so maybe the power is weaker.

 

It is just a question of power to the antenna in the fob, balanced against battery life. GM's have the longer range only in the ones for cars with factory remote start.

 

why the bigger fob if the battery is small?

 

Style? More buttons?
Another thing to consider is that the fob likely doesn't have a separate broadcasting system for the SKS from the rest of what you can do with it. So a long range can have the fob and car constantly pining each other, while you are home, draining the battery of both.

 

Well, it's one or the other, but not both.

2 cm is just shy of .8 inches, not .2 inches (an inch is not 10 cm folks!).

 

thanks. i think i meant 'is the answer', not 'isn't.' but i can hardly remember yesterday, never mind what i meant on 11/23/15. either way, it's .2" or about 5mm, according to kgall in post #35.

 

Ah, okay. I just saw the error in the table and searched to see if anyone else had commented on it. One way or other, civicdriver06 or the moderators should get that corrected. The difference would matter to anyone who cares if clearance fell by nearly an inch - especially since it didn't!

 

agreed.

 

i replaced mine at 3 1/2 years also. i'd rather have a smaller fob than a smaller battery, but oh well.

 

Answering the above:

The new screens are gorgeous and quite bright. I was test driving in various directions on a sunny New Mexico afternoon (and that's at least as bright as it sounds) and never saw them washed out, though I don't recall if that was strictly a matter of brightness or good cowling/inset.

The moonroof cuts a bit into headroom in back, but not where it counts. To explain - there's a "bubble" in the headliner to accommodate the moonroof that ends well in front of where passengers' heads will be, back at the headrests, where the headliner is back to full height. I guess someone right at the limit might be able to brush the trailing edge of the lowered headliner if they sit bolt upright and lean forward, but I don't think that's a practical concern. I didn't measure to confirm, but it didn't seem to me the moonroof affects front seat headroom at all, and might actually slightly increase it when the shade's open.

 

Is there rear HVAC in any edition of the 2016 Prius?

 

Agreed on the moonroof not cutting into headroom. The way the car slopes won't effect the rear headroom and the front headroom seems the same to me as without it. With the moonroof cover open feels even more spacious to me while driving and I'm 6'3".

 

There is a setting in which you can set the A/C to focus on the front seats if no one is in the rear. Or you can set it to both front and back seats.

 

It provides focus for the "Driver-only"

 

Thank you kindly.