I get much better mileage on the highway than in town. I cant get out of the 30's in town. On the highway I get upper 40's.
It depends if traffic flow gives you chance to regen and other electrical accessories have to be on. When I was stuck in carmagadon traffic after a full week of fire evacuation, HV battery would deplete to 2 bars and regen kicked in at least three times on the commute back to work w/105 watts of halogen bulbs during nights. That stand still traffic wrecked my tank overall mpgs.
He says he just finished replacing the front brake pads. The brake fluid reservoir looks oddly low, especially with new pads. His cat gets around, lol. The hybrid battery charge display shows one bar.
His videos of regular cars are great, but his prejudgmental view of the Prius shows from his knowledge or lack there of in this video, and previous hybrid related videos he’s done. Also if he actually repair this type vehicle he would talk about the inverter recalls and egr cleanse in the video.
If he was an actual mechanic, he’d repair the bad motor instead of replacing the entire transaxle with a brand new unit.
Not quite untrue, but definitely slanted. He didn't say MG failures are common, but he also didn't point out that they are rare. I did chuckle a bit, though at several points.
It's possible that's just an editing thing. He might have done the brake job after filming that segment and just put it in a different order. Looked like the inverter reservoir was low too! I get a kick out of Mr. Kilmer's videos though. A few of his repair videos have been helpful. Now I'm just obsessed with Taryl Fixes All, Eric the Car Guy, and Mustie1 instead.
Suprised he didnt take a cheap shot at the brake change requiring 12V bat disconnected and tell viewers to keep fob far far away or else.
I want my Prius featured on his show. I'm thinking of having Scotty check the health of my battery pack with his '$5000 dealer level scan tool!'.
HAHA!!!... "Have a mechanic like me check your car with this $5,000 scan tool, it'll scan everything in real time and tell you something is wrong."
my wife's 2013 prius has had complete 100% (crossing fingers) reliability outside of regular maintenance. We are at 92,000+ miles today and still on original brakes. Only one set of tires. My crv, 2016 model year is very close to needing both new tires and new brakes at only 35,xxx miles. quite a difference in car. not sure why this person thinks that it is a bad car. We have had unbelievable luck with it...not to mention easily averaging 50 mpg in the fall, spring and summer months.
