Well, I've had my Prius for a day now and I've put 95 miles on it with an MPG average of 67.<br><br>SIXTY-SEVEN you say? I would like to attribute it to my skillful driving, but it looks more like the MPG calculator isn't getting the fuel flow signal all the time. My dealer called me today asking if I had noticed anything odd. I mentioned the overly high mileage reading and he said that was a symptom they'd noticed on Prius in which Port Newark had installed the CD player. His mechanic discovered that sometimes they got some wiring backward when replacing a patch cord with the CD player (or something like that). The other symptom they noticed was that the tape player didn't always work. When I got home, I tried a tape for a short drive and it seemed fine.<br><br>Guess I'll get to see the inside of the service dept. sooner than I expected. (Actually, the dealer already introduced me to the receptionist and head mechanic, but that was more of a social call.)<br><br>So if your Prius came through Port Newark, had the CD installed (single) and you have trouble with the tape deck or MPG calculator, this might be the problem.<br><br>Details for the detail obsessed:<br><br>The MPG calculator problem seems to be intermittent. It will go a while with what look like reasonable readings, then lock at 100 MPG for a while no matter how much power I'm requesting, until I push the accelerator almost to the floor, then it will jump down to the 16-20 MPG range until I let off it again.<br><br>I'm not sure what the tape player failure is like since I didn't experience it (yet).<br><br>Robert Snyder

Thanks for the heads-up!<br>My car is having that same problem and it also came through Newark and had the single CD player installed there. In additon (and actually the first sympton it displays is the Energy Monitor screen will stop displaying the energy flow. Lastly, the outside temperature will stop being displayed. All this is also intermittent but the longer I drive, the more it fails. Haven't tied the tape player at all yet.<br><br>Haven't been able to get it back to the dealer yet and, in fact, haven't been able to talk to any Prius trained person yet. I have to leave a message on an anwer machine and they call you back when they get around to it. I've been very busy/away for a few days and haven't been able to connect up yet. I did connect to my "team" leader once, but no one on my "team" has had any Prius training yet, so I doubt they will know about this problem.<br><br>Please keep me(us) advised about what your dealer does to correct this problem, so maybe, just maybe, my dealer will be able to correct mine when I get to see them next week.<br><br>Thanks<br>Jerry

gskill (Jerry) asked me to give updates on the CD miswiring.<br><br>I almost got my CD miswiring fixed today, but I missed my chance due to a mixup. For some reason, they were going to have a technician from the regional office do the repair rather than the local guy. He came by today, but I didn't quite get there in time before he left again. So I have to get it fixed Thurs. when I had an appointment. The regional tech will be back then.<br><br>I was a little surprised that regional isn't letting the local technician fix it.<br><br>I've also now experienced the tape player failure that they mentioned. Sometimes it won't accept a tape. Other times it won't eject the tape. Once it does accept a tape it seems to play ok from then on.<br><br>I've heard that all these devices are on some sort of a LAN. It certainly seems to be behaving like something (the CD player) is intermittently preventing messages on a LAN (short, ground, flood of messages, etc.)<br><br>Robert Snyder

Please keep us updated. My displays and tape player are doing the same things. <br>My serivce "team" has been changed to the "team" that has had the training, a "leader and a "technician". The "leader" had not returned my calls of last Friday and today and there was no way to get to talk to a live person on the phone. So I went there this afternoon. Found out the "leader" has been out with the flu. The garage manager would not let me talk to the "technician". He did not believe that I may have some idea of what the problem might be. I am to drop the car off next Tuesday and "if they can't figure out what the problem is, they have an 800 number that they will call that will give them the answer."<br>Also, found out (but the dealer doesn't know) that the bank that they, the dealer, used to set up financing will not approve the loan because "the Prius is a new model with no history" and they will not make loans on such vehicles.<br>This whole purchase from the very beginning has been a comedy of errors - no one's main fault, just a lot of ignorance all the way around. <br>Robert, please advise who your dealer is so I can have my dealer call them if necessary. Thanks<br><br>Jerry

&gt;&gt;Robert, please advise who your dealer is so I can have my dealer call them if necessary. Thanks<br>Jerry&lt;&lt;<br><br>Toyota of Morristown. (973) 540-1125 is their service dept.