Shitting in the shallow end. *Arse friends electric*

[loserone]

Gordon Kinghorn is the guy who did the Bluebird EV conversion for Nissan a few years ago.  I seem to have persuaded three people to buy from him in about two months 😅

[Jim Bell]

Boring update. 

There's a sloshing sound when the Prius comes to a stop so I rang Google up with my hand held telephone and asked some questions about the most likely reasons. 

Mr Google looked in his big leather bound book of lies and gave me the below list to check through. 

1. Water in scuttle. Blocked scuttle drains. 

2. Water in doors. Blocked one way grommet drains in door bottoms. 

3. Water in spare wheel well/boot floor. 

 

I thought I'd look at the easiest one first. Gave the doors a shake. Sounded ok but checked the bottoms. 

 

Someone has already pulled the drain grommets out of the doors so it's not that. 

 

 

Next on to the scuttle. 

I watched a 15 minute tutorial video on removing the two bolts on the wiper arms, the four bolts on the wiper motor and the 10 or so bolts holding the scuttle panel on. 

As soon as it was finished I went straight outside, ignored all of that and just lifted the scuttle panel enough to jab a long screwdriver in to clear the drain hole. Fixings were missing from the panel, so again, someone has been here before. There was barely any water in there so that's not the source of the sound, but at least it's clear now. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On to the boot then. 

Spare wheel well is under the boot space and under boot space. Helpfully, it all just lifts out. 

 

 

 

 

 

All dry in there too. 

 

So maybe it's just the fuel in the tank sloshing. Fuck knows. 

[Jim Bell]

Next was a small* service. 

This was a three phase procedure. 

 

Phase one was dousing the wiper blades in glass cleaner and wiping them down 40 times as they were covered in babies shit or something similarly oily and greasy that just reduced visibility to ZERO PERCENT every time you sweep the screen. 

 

Improved. Two cloth wrong un. 

 

Phase two was oil. 

I bought some from a Tesco and poured it in because it was low. 

 

Even got the hybrid stuff with extra bits in. 

Player. 

 

 

Phase three was taking the air filter out and banging it against the side of the car to knock out the larger pieces of leaf and assorted detritus out. Job done. 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok I Will order a replacement. 

 

[Dan302]

Could be the electric in the battery sloshing?

[Jim Bell]

ICE is absolutely on point for the period with a SIX DISC MONKEY CHANGER in the dash. 

I hate that climate and stereo controls are accessed via menus on the centre console touch screen, but there are beep boop buttons on the steering wheel for the basics. THANK U TOYOTA.

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

5 minutes ago, Dan302 said:

Could be the electric in the battery sloshing?

I hope not. They're not lead acid. More like loads of AA batteries sellotaped together. 

[Jim Bell]

The driving experience is sedate and comfortable. The steering feels heavy and reassuring. It's hard to describe it's character because I don't think it has any.  Driving it is just like being in a taxi. You know you've gone somewhere because when you get out, you're somewhere else. The bit where you're actually travelling is just non-descript sitting down. 

I think driving a Prius is  probably a lot like intercourse with a sex robot. 

It gets you there. It's efficient and practical but devoid of any emotion or character. 

 

A normal man and his Prius yesterday. 

 

 

All in all, it's a worthy if bland old heap that deserves a bit of attention and use. 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

It'll be interesting to see how you get on with this, a (very) used Prius does seem a potentially worthy buy.