Got my 2010! Very happy! Now some Q's...

So I finally joined the owner's club! :cheer2:

I got a blizzard pearl tech package with solar on Tuesday. Ordered at the end of May. This is my first car, and after reading through many posts here on PC, I was fully expecting to have to argue about dealer installed add-ons and other stuff. Luckily it turns out they (Granville Toyota) were pretty nice. The only thing they tried to sell was the warranty, and a simple no thanks was enough.

They threw in body side mouldings for free and two vehicle services.. And wheel locks? This comes to my first question. In Canada, which accessories come standard? The carpet floor mats we get are one (I think?). Are wheel locks also something that we all get? When the dealer brought out the opened package, I thought at first he was going to try to sell them to me. Turns out he was just explaining that they're already installed and I should keep the key somewhere. (who would steal 15" Prius wheels?)
The dealer also went through a presentation and quick test drive of the car to show me where everything was. He even tried to show me where the LKA was I didn't have the heart to tell him that there is no LKA in Canadian models. He fully admitted to me already that he wasn't familiar with this model anyway. Apparently this was their first tech + solar so no one there knew too much about it. He had been reading as much as possible in prep for my arrival.
He said to call him if I had any questions. He might not know, but he'd find out for me... That was nice of him, but with everyone here being so knowledgeable, I doubt I will be calling him much
Thanks to everything I read here, when the dealer couldn't type in a city name into the nav, I already had an idea that the nav was probably set to the wrong region. Same with SKS, when he couldn't seem to lock the door, it occurred to me that the other fob was probably in the car. This is a great place to come across all this helpful info :thumb:
He was very helpful in showing me where all the none D specific stuff was though. That was good.

But next question: when he was showing me around, he also said something I didn't really know how to gauge. He said that package D's are pretty rare. His dealership would only get 80 allotted in total... Is that very little? I don't know how many of one type of car a dealer normally gets so I really couldn't tell.

Question 3: we don't get the plasmacluster in Canada right? So it's not really clear to me, what does the micro-filter button do? I thought it would be blanked, but it's not.

Question 4: European and Japanese cars get the backup lines in their backup camera. Why doesn't the NA version have this? Cost? Though wouldn't the cost be negligible? There's already a processor that draws other things on screen when the cam is on, so I'd think it would just be slightly different software.

Speaking of other regions, I was a touch disappointed to see that there was no "blank" or door where the hud would otherwise be on a European car. I guess that means it would not be possible to retrofit the hud ourselves! Too sad, the hud is really cool!

Finally, I wish I could say I've really been enjoying my new Prius, but I can't. I've been busy all week that I've hardly set foot in the thing!
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Thanks tumbleweed! I know, I found that kind of strange. Is it normal for a typical car model to vary so much between countries where it's sold? Seems like every country has a completely different set of options! I was wondering whether it was just the Prius, or whether most other cars were like that.

 

Hey Tideland, thanks!

Oh, so I should have gotten a cargo net? Hmm... I would have asked about that if I'd known. Oh well, no biggie. At least they gave me the mouldings.

I was notified that my car would be coming about 3 or 4 weeks ago. Since then I've been going to all the dealerships on the weekend to see if I could sneak a peek at the different colour options. I actually saw a Silver D package at New Westminster Toyota around June 20th. At the time it was unspoken for. I then saw a Winter Grey D package at Jim Pattison in North Van on July 1st. I guess that means there must be a few D owners hiding around the city!

I think I remember reading one of your posts saying you were getting a Blue Ribbon D. When are you getting yours?