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Old 05-20-2016, 06:48 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Baltothewolf View Post
Just lean on the battery really hard, do 2nd gear takeoffs and just WOT to draw as much from the IMA system as possible. Drain it completely, then drive conservatively to recharge. Repeat that one more time, if it doesn't code or do a negative recall, it's probably in at least OK shape.

interesting,
that's prettymuch what I did on the test drive today.
drew it almost all the way down twice and let it charge back up

on the return trip, I was averaging about 56mpg over 9 miles (reset it after running it kinda hard)
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2005 GTO 6.0 V8 (600hp)

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2010 Prius II (replaced 2001 Tahoe 5.3 V8 April 2014)

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