Purchased the Prius on March 21st 2012, and today February 6th 2015 I hit the 100,000 mile marker, and in the time all I have had to do is the G.T.O maintenance (Gas, Tires & Oil)
how was you MPG so far? Hhope you are not one of those people who drive to DC every day. That would be a brutal commute.
Congrats, oP! And here I'm still at 27k miles... But my commute is less than 5mi each way. So how does the C age, mileage-wise? Still solid? Seats ok? Rock chips? Rust? Suspension showing age? What do we have to look foward to in the near term?
I'm going to run out of my Toyotacare soon...just wanted to ask if the G.T.O maintenance that you did also involved those 5k interval maintenance for wheel alignment? or did you just skip those? and congrats...a toyota engineer somewhere grew wings like a vw engineer
Thanks for posting your 100k milestone and associated minimal maintenance and congratulations! Very encouraging for a new owner. Looking forward to hearing about many more trouble free miles from your car.
I think this thread should be named Prius c 100k mile club, as per similar threads in other Prii. Moderator?
I like this car, I'm getting 54MPG on warm days, cold days about 44MPG (don't know what's up with that) to me its comfortable, seats are not worse to wear actually holding up great, a few rock chips, no rust, suspension is solid as well, still on the original brake pads and exhaust system too, here is a pic of the car from a few days ago
Yes I did the Toyota Maintenance for the first 24,000 miles and after that I changed the oil every 10k miles after reading about the synthetic oil and its viscosity I felt 10k changes is fine, had the car checked for wheel balancing when I replaced the front tires a few months ago , it didn't need it
The warm vs. cold thing applies to all cars, really. A cold engine is much less efficient than a warm engine and the colder the weather the longer the engine's running cold. Also cold air offers more resistance than warm. Cold tires offer more resistant than warm. People are just more sensitive to this when they have a car that tells them how it's doing all the time.
yes 10K interval with good synthetic oil (Mobile 1) is fine. Our hatchback has 165K no prob with 10K oil changes. Over the years we had several cars which went well over 200k with 10k changes; one has 430K still kicking. With replacing OEM front tires, which ones did you have? did they really last 100k? thnx!
I replaced the tires at 32k because they were 3-season radials, I needed 4 season radials, the car had a smoother ride after the tire replacement, I went to Pep Boys and got the buy 3 get 1 free.... not bad 60,000 Miles on January 8th 2014 I replaced my front tires with winter tread, it was the best thing to do for this car for traction.
