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[ColinEL]

Hi ALL

Have managed to get back on the site, I have a computer problem, it seems caused by a Microsoft download, I had the tech guys sort it for me, then could not log back on, its strange as I am also on the Priuschat site, which was not effected, I logged straight back on, but this site, well,quite unbelieveable, could not get any help from any where, it seemed you have to be logged on to do any thing, the site would not accept my user name and password, so I tried to re register using my details, that told me that my details was being used by someone, ME, I could not get round it, the help button was not help/good all that does is take you to a page where you can chose what you want IF YOU ARE LOGGED ON, so what good is that, I think someone wants to look into this, I think the help button should do just that.It may help some one in the furure.

I have had to change my details so that I could get back on the forum, to speak to all you good friends who I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH OVER THE LAST 3 OR 4 WEEKS.

Have just filled up for the second time, having done 398 miles on my first tank of fuel, the dealer put some in when I collected the car, I topped it up with 31 liters,

went to see some friends near Bridgewater something like 224 miles, sat on the M4 on Cruise at 70mph as and when I could, filthy daycoming home, would have been quicker by speed boat, there was that much water about, did not find the seating very comfortable after the Jaguar, since then I have dropped the back of the seat back one notch

its now fine, I think sorting a new car is always the same until you get it set up to your needs.

One thing I was suprised about, when I contacted the dealer to ask if he could get me a set of chrome covers for the locking wheel nuts to be told they do not do them, so I contacted a friend in Japan, sure enough they do not do them, how much is a new Prius £26000 odd, is that what is called penny pinching, I know its a small item but hey. What I have done to tidy up the rusty heads of them, is silver Hammerite.

I am happy with the car. I have had it now since the Ist of this month, first tank av 47mpg, I am into the second tankfull, so far have done just on 160 miles, its showing 45mpg, so after my Jaguar 26-28 on a run and 18-20 round town I must be making a good saving, the lower road tax saving has paid for the insurance, so another saving, the car came with one year warranty and one year AA so the AA has saved another £100, I am liking it.

The only thing now it to get some help in sorting out my log in problem, so I can get back to my original details, can any body can help me sort it.

Happy to be back among you all.

ColinEL EX MG nut.

[r04drunner1]

Welcome back Col, sorry to hear about your troubles with the site. I can't help with that I am afraid... best to email the admin team I guess. If you get a similar problem in future log onto jaguarforum.co.uk and PM me from there; I have the same id and am still a member although my posts are few and far between now that I have my Prius!

I am not quite sure exactly how I could help, presumably in terms of chasing up your technical problem with the admin team here. (Mind you, I don't know how to contact them as yet myself )

R04drunner1

[ColinEL]

Welcome back Col, sorry to hear about your troubles with the site. I can't help with that I am afraid... best to email the admin team I guess. If you get a similar problem in future log onto jaguarforum.co.uk and PM me from there; I have the same id and am still a member although my posts are few and far between now that I have my Prius!

I am not quite sure exactly how I could help, presumably in terms of chasing up your technical problem with the admin team here. (Mind you, I don't know how to contact them as yet myself )

R04drunner1

Hi RR

Thanks for your post, thes that was my problem, I struggled to find away how to contact the admin people, I dont know how but kept trying and I hope managed to get a couple of emails off but have heard nothing, it really wants sorting out, I have been pulling my hair out (what I have left) I just do not know what has happened.

Pleased with the car, as I said above, came back through terrible rain storm from Bridgewater a couple of weeks ago, found the seats uncumfortable, but it was the first logish run it the car, now sorted, its ok now.

But I am most concerned about not being able to get help, perhaps some one from admin will read these posts and do something, I will keep hoping, the sales guy who delt with me at Toyota took the Jaguar to the post office to get the tax for my car his boss gave him a right b****** for doing that, when I popped in last week to see him he told me he had driven the Jagaur to the aution site, was it ok I asked, yer he said it flew.

ColinEL EX MG nut

[Ancient Nerd]

Have you tried resetting the password? There should be a login option for when you can't remember the password (or userid).

There have been a few glitches recently as the site admin seem to be trying to tighten up on a few things. There have been two separate attacks on the size of the signature panel, so that it is now impossible to set up a standard fuelly panel (Warning - If you still have one, don't change it). Your account might, just possibly, have got caught up in one of these purges!

[ColinEL]

Have you tried resetting the password? There should be a login option for when you can't remember the password (or userid).

There have been a few glitches recently as the site admin seem to be trying to tighten up on a few things. There have been two separate attacks on the size of the signature panel, so that it is now impossible to set up a standard fuelly panel (Warning - If you still have one, don't change it). Your account might, just possibly, have got caught up in one of these purges!

Hi

Thanks I tried that, it does not seem to matter what I have done it will not accept my details.

ColinEL ex MG nut

[capnbirdseye]

Hi Colin, glad to see you back, your mpg is very low,are you driving it as you would your previous car? I have same year vehicle since Jan this year and it's not gone below 51mpg even when very cold weather, last tankful average 55 which included a couple of 50 mile trips.

I find that to get a reasonable mpg you have to be prepared to nurse the Prius a bit more than you would any other car, driving with the display showing instant mpg and where the power is coming from and directed to is the only way until you learn to tell by the feel of the car how it's doing. You've probably seen the instant mpg drop alarmingly to 12mpg or even less when you accelerate and climb hills but when your cruising along a country lane and it shows maybe 40mpg and you lift your foot a fraction and it jumps to 55 but the vehicle doesn't slow down at all so you lift a fraction more and it jumps to 65mmg and the vehicle still carries on for a mile or so before it starts to slow down. Without the instant mpg display it's hard to judge.

I find the secret of the Prius is to pulse the vehicle fast up to speed & then lift off the pedal completely and feather it back on, maybe it will show 15mpg for ten seconds whilst you shoot up to speed but then you might get a couple of minutes showing 99.9mpg which actually could mean a million miles per gallon if your using no fuel whatsoever, so 10 seconds of 15mpg versus maybe 180 seconds of 0 mpg. do the maths then rinse & repeat

Have you noticed under 47 mpg that you can carefully feather the pedal and get all the arrows to disappear so it shows black ? that is the fabled Prius glide mode where the vehicle coasts and if going slightly down hill will actually noticeably suddenly gather speed with no engine drag and no regeneration drag to slow you down,if you do slow down then a slight movement of your foot will trigger the electric motor to gently kick in so as soon as you gain momentum then lift off and feather the pedal to get back to no arrows again. It's easily possible to travel several miles doing this if the speed limit is 40mp and the terrain is suitable My best mpg using the pulse and glide is 79mpg on a nearby local trip of 11 miles which includes 3 miles of slight downhill, however I lose some of it coming back :censor:

Does it sound like a lot of hastle and maybe too much looking at the screen instead of the road? not at all, it becomes second nature and for me and part of the enjoyment of the car and in your case it could give you another 10mpg

[sjrainsford]

Just a quick first question. Have you tried logging into the site from a computer other than your own?

Looks like we have the same model and colour Prius too! I've not felt the need for chrome wheel nut covers for mine, they're a shiny shade of silver anyway. They stand out quite nice without the wheel trims on.

[ColinEL]

Hi Colin, glad to see you back, your mpg is very low,are you driving it as you would your previous car? I have same year vehicle since Jan this year and it's not gone below 51mpg even when very cold weather, last tankful average 55 which included a couple of 50 mile trips.

I find that to get a reasonable mpg you have to be prepared to nurse the Prius a bit more than you would any other car, driving with the display showing instant mpg and where the power is coming from and directed to is the only way until you learn to tell by the feel of the car how it's doing. You've probably seen the instant mpg drop alarmingly to 12mpg or even less when you accelerate and climb hills but when your cruising along a country lane and it shows maybe 40mpg and you lift your foot a fraction and it jumps to 55 but the vehicle doesn't slow down at all so you lift a fraction more and it jumps to 65mmp and the vehicle still carries on for a mile or so before it starts to slow down. Without the instant mpg display it's hard to judge.

I find the secret of the Prius is to pulse the vehicle fast up to speed & then lift off the pedal completely and feather it back on, maybe it will show 15mpg for ten seconds whilst you shoot up to speed but then you might get a couple of minutes showing 99.9mpg which actually could mean a million miles per gallon if your using no fuel whatsoever, so 10 seconds of 15mpg versus maybe 180 seconds of 0 mpg. do the maths then rinse & repeat

Have you noticed under 47 mpg that you can carefully feather the pedal and get all the arrows to disappear so it shows black ? that is the fabled Prius glide mode where the vehicle coasts and if going slightly down hill will actually noticeably suddenly gather speed with no engine drag and no regeneration drag to slow you down,if you do slow down then a slight movement of your foot will trigger the electric motor to gently kick in so as soon as you gain momentum then lift off and feather the pedal to get back to no arrows again. It's easily possible to travel several miles doing this if the speed limit is 40mp and the terrain is suitable My best mpg using the pulse and glide is 79mpg on a nearby local trip of 11 miles which includes 3 miles of slight downhill, however I lose some of it coming back :censor:

Does it sound like a lot of hastle and maybe too much looking at the screen instead of the road? not at all, it becomes second nature and for me and part of the enjoyment of the car and in your case it could give you another 10mpg

Hi Thanks for that, that was my first fill up, and a lot of local trips, on the second tank it has done 45mph on approx 160 miles, I am sure it will get better, I have been trying what you said, with some good results, keep you all posted.

ColinEL

[ColinEL]

Just a quick first question. Have you tried logging into the site from a computer other than your own?

Looks like we have the same model and colour Prius too! I've not felt the need for chrome wheel nut covers for mine, they're a shiny shade of silver anyway. They stand out quite nice without the wheel trims on.

Hi.

Yes I speak to my brother in Australia every Saturday, so he tried for me, and got the same results, its the forum, not my computer, I am also on the Priuschat web site and this is/was uneffected, but as of yet no one has come up with an answer, from this site.

Regarding the locking wheel nuts/bolts, mine were brown, rusty, first car I have ever owned that does not have caps on them, as I said I asked my friend in Japan to look inti it for me, and he confirmed, no they do not supply them.

How are you finding your car, I am quite pleased with it, what with the petrol prices going through the roof, I thought I had better sell my XJ8 and buy one, the biggest shock I had, was I went to look at a Volvo estate, auto with leather 2 litre 04 reg it was something like £8500, would you believe they offered me £400 for the Jaguar, I told them they were taking the P, and walked out, the wheels and tyres were worth more than that, I got £2000 from Toyota.

Thanks for your post.

ColinEL

[r04drunner1]

for the Jaguar... I got £2000 from Toyota.

Colin

For the sake of my marriage, I'm glad you didn't tell me you were selling an XJ8 for two grand.

"Just going on a little sightseeing trip dear..."

"Hi honey, I'm back. Oh, look what I found while I was out...."

...and then the fight started.

Whew. Narrow escape, that.

RR1

[dwilson]

Hi Thanks for that, that was my first fill up, and a lot of local trips, on the second tank it has done 45mph on approx 160 miles, I am sure it will get better, I have been trying what you said, with some good results, keep you all posted.

ColinEL

My first couple of fill ups were lower mpg than once I had got the hang of driving a Prius.

Once the weather warms up I am expecting to see a big improvement.

The last 400 miles or so was 55 mpg but I expect to increase to over 60 mpg once the summer is here!

David

[sjrainsford]

I'm really pleased with mine Colin. It too replaced a Jaguar, only mine was an X type diesel estate. It's not quite as refined lacking in the sound deadening department, but I've like riding round in it. I use it for work too, and it's proving good on long journeys.

I went up to newcastle on tyne the other week and averaged 51mpg, and that was with a motorway cruising speed of generally above an indicated 80mph. It takes a while to adapt your driving style but you soon get used to it. As with an automatic, you can fool the engine into choosing lower revs just by coming off the accelerator and then back on. The trick is to try not to hold your foot in the same place as most would do if sitting at a set speed on the motorway when not using cruise control.

But yes, all in all it's a nice car! Am going to sound deaden the doors as soon as I can as that JBL system is currently wasted and could sound better I'm sure. Another trick, is to disconnect that tinny little centre speaker as that really ruins the sound and is very difficult to EQ out. However, it is fairly good for dialogue when theres substantial road noise.

[ColinEL]

Hi Thanks for that, that was my first fill up, and a lot of local trips, on the second tank it has done 45mph on approx 160 miles, I am sure it will get better, I have been trying what you said, with some good results, keep you all posted.

ColinEL

My first couple of fill ups were lower mpg than once I had got the hang of driving a Prius.

Once the weather warms up I am expecting to see a big improvement.

The last 400 miles or so was 55 mpg but I expect to increase to over 60 mpg once the summer is here!

David

Hi Dave

Thanks again for that, I will keep the forum post as I go.

I have some friends that live in Bewdley, have not seen them for a while, I have over the last 10-11 years done a rally either here France and one year to Holland, they came on most of them, they did have their own business, some thing to do with water, Morris & Jo Lashford. really nice people.

ColinEL

[ColinEL]

I'm really pleased with mine Colin. It too replaced a Jaguar, only mine was an X type diesel estate. It's not quite as refined lacking in the sound deadening department, but I've like riding round in it. I use it for work too, and it's proving good on long journeys.

I went up to newcastle on tyne the other week and averaged 51mpg, and that was with a motorway cruising speed of generally above an indicated 80mph. It takes a while to adapt your driving style but you soon get used to it. As with an automatic, you can fool the engine into choosing lower revs just by coming off the accelerator and then back on. The trick is to try not to hold your foot in the same place as most would do if sitting at a set speed on the motorway when not using cruise control.

But yes, all in all it's a nice car! Am going to sound deaden the doors as soon as I can as that JBL system is currently wasted and could sound better I'm sure. Another trick, is to disconnect that tinny little centre speaker as that really ruins the sound and is very difficult to EQ out. However, it is fairly good for dialogue when theres substantial road noise.

Hi

Thanks for your post, yes I will see how things go, quite please with the car, but its hard to get over the Jaguar, it was some thing I always wanted to own, it had, had only one owner before me and was super, the longest run I done in it was 756 miles in a day, down into France, 3.30am start and finished in a hotel at 10.30pm

Knackered but a super journey, the big problem now it the petrol prices, I am only on a pension so have to watch the spending, that is what made me change cars,

as I have said in an early post, £10 rfl instead of £240, the saving have paid for my insurance £236, I got 1 year AA from Toyota so thats what another £90 saved,

and at the moment 47mpg as against 26-28mpg got to be a good saving.

Colin EL

[Peter Sale]

I think more than any car it does take some getting used to. Had mine 10 days now but still learning. A trip to Norfolk and back has helped and fill up to fill up I managed to average 55mpg which is quite good in my mind.

One thing that might have helped is putting air in the tyres !. Despite having had a service and MOT at the Mr T dealer both the front tyres were at 25 and the rears at 29. Setting them right might have helped on the economy a fair amount.

The stunning bit was stopping at some roadworks and the silence impressed my other half no end - it takes some getting used to but must pay dividends.

Glad to be a member of the 2007 T spirit club - and another decuma grey. Learnt a lot from this forum which helped influence my choice.

Peter

[ColinEL]

I think more than any car it does take some getting used to. Had mine 10 days now but still learning. A trip to Norfolk and back has helped and fill up to fill up I managed to average 55mpg which is quite good in my mind.

One thing that might have helped is putting air in the tyres !. Despite having had a service and MOT at the Mr T dealer both the front tyres were at 25 and the rears at 29. Setting them right might have helped on the economy a fair amount.

The stunning bit was stopping at some roadworks and the silence impressed my other half no end - it takes some getting used to but must pay dividends.

Glad to be a member of the 2007 T spirit club - and another decuma grey. Learnt a lot from this forum which helped influence my choice.

Peter

Hi Peter

Welcome to the forum, I have had mine since the 1st of last month, it had 37,026 miles on it with one owner, it goes well I think its just a matter of getting used to it, I was not fussed about the colour but its growing on me, couple of people I know, both said they liked the colour it suited the car,

ColinEL

[johalareewi]

IOne thing that might have helped is putting air in the tyres !. Despite having had a service and MOT at the Mr T dealer both the front tyres were at 25 and the rears at 29. Setting them right might have helped on the economy a fair amount.

No might about it. Putting more air in the tyres improves mpg. Always worth checking the tyre pressures regularly especially after Mr T has had the car for a service.

[jont-uk]

Colin

Just experienced similar login problems as you - although running an AppleMac I am impervious to all sorts of Microsoft problems !!

What I did find out though was I was trying to log in with my 'display name' jont-uk rather than my 'username' xxxxxxxx ...

Once I'd twigged that - and remembered the password I'd reset for the third time I was back in :-/

rgds

jon