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Originally Posted by hayden55
Yup. Just because he's an owner doesn't mean he knows anything about the vehicle. I see a lot on forums or facebook groups where guys are preaching about plug wires and ground straps too. Doesn't mean they work though. lol
Your best bet will be to pump the tires up to 45+ and teach your wife how to drive without brakes (DWB). A lot of the time in the Prius i try to use neutral (you could just coast as well) instead of regening because its still only around 60% efficient.
Also as stated above you could look into the temperature of the car on her commute and look into grill blocks and redirecting the intake for warm air. Its about time for me to do this on the Prius again this year as well.
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Thank you for that. We live in SW Florida, so I'm curious how much that will help us. The tires max out at 50psi, and going through the owners manual I have upped them to 38. She did drive it with the rear wheels set at 45 after I towed our camper with it and it didn't seem to do much. But I wasn't rigorous with recording data so I'll experiment. The regen is super light. It's the blended braking where the regen comes in on this truck. But she does work hard on accelerating and braking gently. There is a Guage for just that on the dash.
I will defend grounding straps. A few years back I had a '98 Caravan that would randomly die and not start. I replaced the grounding strap and leaned all the grounds I could find and got it running again. But they were all in terrible shape. 😏 But yeah, getting more .pg seems a bit unlikely unless the corrosion is really bad..
Thank you again.