Fill up at a 1/2 tank! or pay $159.12

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ Aug 1 2006, 02:12 PM) [snapback]295879[/snapback]</div>

Yeah, and it's also a good idea to have on clean underwear just in case you end up in the emergency room.

1/4 full for what reason? As a bladder stretching method? Or, for safety in case of natural disaster?

Your Prius should feel no ill effects from having the gas level below 1/4 tank all the way down to 1/20 of a tank. I fact, not carrying around that extra weight (dead weigh it you never use it :angry: ) and minimizing the number of trips you make to the gas station is the ecologically correct thing to do.

 

The dealer ripped you off.

Report them and don't ever go there again.

If you paid by credit card, I'd have the payment stopped.

I'd go so far as to call the manager (or owner) of the dealership, tell him what happened, how they ripped you off, what you did and that you're not only never giving them your business again, you're posting their rip off on the internet so any Prius owners in the area that read the boards will know to avoid them.

Then do it.

Yeah....I'm Italian. What of it?

 

I regularly fill up with 10 gal and have put in over 12. No problem with running out if I get gas witin 15 miles of the blinking gauge.

 

I ran out of gas once -- as Evan says, a slew of lights popped open on the board. Then I drove another 1/4 mile or so on EV.

Then I filled up the tank, and off I went. No trouble starting, no tow to the dealer, and most certainly no ECU reprogramming BS.

The dealer is FOS, and either/or incompetent and dishonest.

 

With a car as "smart" as this one, I still am dumbfounded that it does not have a "Distance till empty" function the same as my 04 Sienna...and the Sienna is deadly accurate...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Aug 1 2006, 03:15 PM) [snapback]295932[/snapback]</div>

Thank God(iva) you're not from New Jersey too...or else there'd be a gun in that emergency tote, right next to the chocolate! B) (And I am a recovering New Yorker...thhpppptttt ....from the Bronx, no less!)

 

I was born in Connecticut.

I have connected through Newark a few times, though.

 

i just returned from a 6065.9 mile round trip from san antonio texas to new york city, boston, ma., wisconson dells, wi., santa fe, nm., and back. i bought my 2006 prius in march and have put 18,000 miles on the car already. i travel for the joy of traveling, and with the navigation system in my prius, it is truly a joy to travel. but that's another story.

during my journey, i would travel anywhere from 350 mile to 578 miles before filling the tank. not once did i experience any kind of trouble with the fuel gauge, or anything else for that matter. i would travel at the maximum posted speed limit with my cruise control set.

one factor, i believe, that has been very beneficial in my driving experience, has been to "drive like i want to conserve energy", rather than driving to "get somewhere quickly". my mpg ranged from 43 mpg to 62 mpg, depending on gas quality, terrain and speed. it is sad to see another prius speeding past me while i'm going the maximum speed. but then, it's their "carma".

just one small selling point for driving with your cruise control. the mental peace you'll get when you come upon "the man". as other vehicles brakes are applied, you'll just by without fear. and that's a good thing. you'll be getting better gas milage too.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(inMothersservice @ Aug 2 2006, 04:30 AM) [snapback]296158[/snapback]</div>

I'm 19,400 since February, so I think you're in the same ballgame, but ahead by a run or two.

I know cruise control is an easier way to not creep up or down on your speed by accident so that's a huge up-side. I find that my mpg is significantly better if I don't use cruise control. You have a pile of miles, were you able to figure out if it makes any difference or which is better?

I get 52 over my 19k. When I set cruise, the running data rarely will show above 50 much less average above.

Most of the time, I'm in commmuter traffic, so cruise is not an option. Just wondering what you've figured out on that cruise and your mpg.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ServoScanMan @ Aug 1 2006, 04:45 PM) [snapback]295910[/snapback]</div>

I put in 11.2 gallons the other day and my last bar was beeping!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daronspicher @ Aug 2 2006, 02:55 AM) [snapback]296159[/snapback]</div>

Still less (fewer?) than 2k on my odo, but...BUT...and, as a true fan of cruise control since I first had it...approx. 1993...THE PRI DOES BETTER WITHOUT IT.

That nasty little confession out of the way...I still DO and always WILL use it on very long and steep upgrades, when safe, as well as on very long flat stretches, regardless of what I CAN SEE it does to my mpg.

Much as I do/did love cruise control...I am learning I will either have to take a BIG hit in my mpg, or adjust my habits.

Bottom line...which is more important to you? Maybe after more than 2k miles, I'll get a bit more blase about it all...but NOW the difference between cc and NOT is way too dramatic for me to ignore... :huh:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mdescher @ Aug 3 2006, 08:26 PM) [snapback]297382[/snapback]</div>

Isn't the problem however that you DID NOT run out of gas? Everything they seem to say as far as your being charged...etc is due to YOUR running out of gas. But as you stated, you went from 2 bars to 1, pulled right into a station and gased up. Never did the car tell you that it was out of gas, did it? So it seems the problem is that the car "thought" it was out of gas, when it fact it wasn't, thus causing the problems.

FIGHT THIS! My Dad's BMW one day wouldn't start - very similiar to you. It was brought to the dealer and they said the car "thought" it was out of gas, when in fact, he had plenty of gas - over 1/2 a tank.

If you had filled up at 1/2 a tank and had this same issue, would you have been treated different? Never give them more information than they need - you did not run out of gas - the car failed and gave an error code when it sohuldn't have and THAT should be covered under warranty.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rufaro @ Aug 2 2006, 10:10 PM) [snapback]296798[/snapback]</div>

The "cruise control" syndrome is not just a function of the Prius - it applies to any vehicle because
cruise does not concern itself with maintaining optimum vacuum for the driving condition.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rufaro @ Aug 2 2006, 02:47 AM) [snapback]296136[/snapback]</div>

Yo, what's da matter with being an Italian from Jersey??