Prius Prime - the interior with the 8" touch screen

agreed, i won't use it, especially with my new $600. michelins. i keep a spare in the hatch. but with the prime, i'm not sure it will fit.

 

When one designs a car aren't all the factors considered? Anyway I'm glad to hear that there is plenty of room for you and your family.

 

my linebackers won't fit.

 

You mean like carrying spares for all of the 10,000 things on the car that could fail and leave you on the side of the road?

 

A spare tire is And always was a intergral part of the car. We had a huge conversation about this in 2012 with the first Pip. Research it, you may find it interesting.

 

More than a third of cars sold today don't have a spare.

I've been stranded three different times because of coolant system failures, but never because of a tire problem. Maybe cars should carry a spare radiator, hose set and a few gallons of coolant.

 

And I inturn have encountered overheat problems 3 X and solved them enroute. In the process I learned something. Since, it has never been repeated. I've never been stranded.

 

I drove a car once with NO fanbelt to home, about 30 miles. Thru judicious use of the accelerator pedal and free wheeling.

 

I've had two radiator hoses explode and dump all the coolant on the ground, and I've had the radiator crack and spray coolant all over the engine block entirely obstructing my view of the road with a cloud of steam before all the coolant was gone.

How do you fix those on the side of the road?

 

Ther are things that people can do, probably the fix that most people do, is to change a flat tire!
Did you know that there are actually people nowadays who cannot change a tire!


Are you

Inspection and preventive maintenance before the event. The hoses were probably soft for a long time. What initiated this tremendous pressure? Certainly not anaerobic digestion.

 

I've had to put spare tires on for other people three different times because they either couldn't figure out how to do it or weren't strong enough to break the over-torqued lug nuts from the dealer with the air wrench.

Same thing goes for tires. Well-maintained tires are extremely unlikely to suddenly go flat. Yes, you can get a nail or bolt in a tire, but that's almost always going to cause a slow leak which will take days if not weeks to make the tire undriveable. I just had one. It would lose about 1psi per day.

 

i used to walk up hill to school through the snow. both ways.

 

Maybe one of these should be standard equipment. https://www.goimprints.com/product/big-thumbs-up-foam-hand-mitt-6051078/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product%2Bsearch&utm_campaign=base

 

Years ago..
I've repaired a fan belt with 3 cable ties, drove 15 miles to the shop.
The shop guys nailed it to the wall in the shop.

 

Outstanding!

Looks like you had a school close and far. That's Tuf, one school is bad enough. Plus two hills, that's outrageous!

 

I carry a battery-powered impact wrench on long trips, just in case, and because I'm too damn old to risk hurting myself when trying to loosen those things.

 

They are being lazy and cheap. Taking a regular Prius, shoehorning in a plug-in battery, dubbing it done. As long as people keep buying them, that'll be the way it's done. It is possible to have a plug-in with a spare, but it would take more effort.

 

shoe horn, i like that.

 

Is your last name MacGyver?

 

Anytime anyone but me touches the wheels, I jack the car up, loosen the wheel bolts/nuts, and re-torque them. I have a 24" socket wrench tool that makes that easy. Then in 25 to 50 miles I check the torque again. Too tight and alloy wheels might distort. Too loose and you might have the wheel come loose and destroy itself if not causing an accident on the highway.

Normally the fasteners are way too tight. In 2009 when driving a 2005 Prius cross country, I stopped for an oil change and tire rotation in Aurora, Colorado at a huge Toyota dealership there. Heading west out of Denver the car was handling very oddly on the I-70 curves. I stopped in Georgetown to check the wheels with the torque wrench I had brought along. Every bolt was different - several were only finger tight! After correcting that mess, I discovered they had not reset the tire pressures, so the front tires were 2 psi below the back and all four tires were way overinflated as I had started out from sea level. It really paid off to be anal-retentive on that trip.