New Nightshade Trim and Yellow Colour for 2025.

Ha ha…The way things are looking I might be picking up a 2024 that’s parked next to a 2025. Because of this “random” QC delay I now have to deal with an expensive headlight that’s warning me it needs to be replaced soon.

 

Would a junkyard or aftermarket headlight help bridge the gap? I bought aftermarket headlights from RockAuto for one of my cars.

 

What enhancements are you talking about

 

The ones I will be missing when I find out about them. : }

 

We won’t know until the mid-cycle refresh is announced for the 2026 model year in late 2025.

It could be almost nothing or few things here and there.

2020 Prius Prime got the third-rear seat and an interior-color-scheme refresh. 2021 Prius Prime got TSS 2.0.

Gen 3 got a taillight update in 2012—not sure what else.

 

I will do my best to not look at this announcement. Ha!

 

As an old friend used to say about his hyper vigilant research. The more you research the more you know what you’re missing. If Honda,Toyota and Subaru could collaborate on a hybrid hatchback with the best of their features, that might be my dream car. At least I now know I can’t tolerate the VOCs on new leather.

 

I see your point that “inspect thickness measurement and disc runout” in the footnote every 30,000 miles requires removing the pads, and a good technician would clean and apply new shim grease to the pads when reinstalling them—assuming that you have run into a good technician. However, I doubt that is why Toyota put that note. They simply want you to check if your pads and discs are not worn out.

Regarding cleaning and relubing caliper pins, good luck with that. No mechanic, brake shop, or dealer does that anymore, as it is considered brake-caliper rebuilding, and no one rebuilds brake calipers at this age, as they are always bought factory-rebuilt complete with pads and other hardware. Even if they rebuilt them, chances are that they would use the wrong grease—not the pink Toyota-required lithium-soap-based glycol grease, only available at Toyota dealers—and you would be much worse off.

With me driving my Gen 4 Prius PHEV gently with regenerative braking by far in warm and dry Southern California, I don’t think I want my brakes messed with every 30,000 miles.

 

I am looking forward to TSS 4.0, which will be built on the NVIDIA framework. Those Toyotas will be much better cars than the current Toyotas.