2010 Prius New Car Features online now

,bout time!

 

Is it easy enough to grab the entire thing or do you still have to get it by section search?

 

I'm in... w00t. It does require IE and the antiquated (and no longer supported after 1/1/2009) Adobe SVG viewer.

Also shows pages in an HTML-ish format, no more PDF. I'll find a way though, I have till midnight tomorrow night to gather.

Looks like the maintenance schedule is also posted.

 

IE8 works fine IF you have the SVG plugin installed and have permitted it to run.

No love on Firefox.

I'm in the process of downloading and PDFing each NCF section right now so that I can go back for reference, etc. There's a TON of good stuff in there.



Biggest welcome surprise - Hydraulic Lash Adjusters.

Biggest hidden surprise - the power steering ECU can detect an overall system voltage drop, and if so, will command A/C and rear window defroster to stop consuming power while steering assist is provided. Talk about prioritization.

Disappointment - the steering systems between the early 15" and 17" are completely different, so the upgrade once the later 15" converts would be rather costly. Different steering ratios and different power steering motors.

Purely puzzled - Mexican spec cars get full sized 15" spares while US and Canada spec cars only get T-type temp spares.

I'm still browsing though... ;-)

 

I was successful in downloading for the 2010 Prius:
* Owner's Manual
* NAV Owner's Manual
* any available Accessory Installation Guides (applique, illuminated door sills)
* Maintenance/Warranty Guide (yea, we still get 5000 mile oil change intervals)
* New Car Features Guide (converted to PDF)
* Most, if not all of the Electrical Wiring Diagrams (they're a bit harder to get at as you have to "print" w/ their navigator to trigger the PDF download, and the directory doesn't permit indexing)

Some of these documents do have typos or inaccurate translation.

Because of the lengthy process of printing each section to PDF, I elected not to download the repair manual or body repair manuals. The repair manual is very likely to change at this stage of the game, and for cases where I may need it, the $10-$15 investment to look up current information is trivial.

 

Rick, when putting in the illuminated door sills, is it pretty straight forward? What I mean is there a connector under the stock door sill once you pop it off and you just kind of plug these in and go (not in that many easy steps of course!)? Thanks

 

To add to the last reply, they use T-splice connectors onto two wires on each side, presumably the door illumination wires. The sills, however, are pop-out, pop-in units in all 4 locations. Only the front two appear to be illuminated. I am surprised at the use of T-splice connectors, but if they'll warrant that type of intrusive install, I'm game.

Fortunately the VIP alarm is a bit less intrusive w/ either pin insertion or harness between a harness type installation.

 

Thanks to the both of ya' for the reply. Yeah, I think I'll have to spree for these as well.

If you happen to get a price from your dealership, or even once they get them in, please make a post here or send me a pm. I'm going to start getting on my dealer as well to get me a set. I too thought they were a neat thing when I saw that at the NYC Priority Event back in February.