coastin in neutral

[Horse]

Does your prius' have a rev counter? Mine doesn't.  Or an oil gauge. Never noticed the over rev thing meself and I do be up the mountains a lot as I live right beside them. Or when I used to do school runs I used the back road between Rathcoole and Saggart which has an extremely steep hill at both ends. Is it only on particular models this happens?

[mercenary for hire]

I think DMG is in one of them new Corolla hybrids.They don't need the rev counter or a handbrake but Toyota put them in so maybe don't seem too strange to the new hybrid drivers coming from a diesel or petrol.

[Belker]

..... We're all experienced on here but there is a school of thought that you are not in control if your vehicle when it is in neutral. .....

I'd go along with MFH on this, never a good idea to let the car control itself.

[Horse]

The B thingy works well on steep hills.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

it does work and you can feel the car being anchored but it makes the engine scream upta 4000rpm which is very unnerving. it's like going down a very steep hill in first gear on a manual car it would do the same.

[Octavia1]

Try the adaptive cruise control  down hill doc ... the steady decend seems to  work better... for me anyway ...

[mercenary for hire]

The engine revving is probably just more noticeable as they're fairly quiet most of the time.You do become very aware of noises that you wouldn't have heard in a diesel.Same with the EVs.Putting tape over the rev counter might work also..

[silverbullet]

The engine revving is probably just more noticeable as they're fairly quiet most of the time.You do become very aware of noises that you wouldn't have heard in a diesel.Same with the EVs.Putting tape over the rev counter might work also..

Putting the car in for a battery health check wouldn't do any harm. It's free AFAIK with Toyota.

[Octavia1]

The engine revving is probably just more noticeable as they're fairly quiet most of the time.You do become very aware of noises that you wouldn't have heard in a diesel.Same with the EVs.Putting tape over the rev counter might work also..

Putting the car in for a battery health check wouldn't do any harm. It's free AFAIK with Toyota.

Dennis mahoney Kilbarrick charged me 100 quid for battery check every second service under Warrenty ....has that changed ?

[silverbullet]

The engine revving is probably just more noticeable as they're fairly quiet most of the time.You do become very aware of noises that you wouldn't have heard in a diesel.Same with the EVs.Putting tape over the rev counter might work also..

Putting the car in for a battery health check wouldn't do any harm. It's free AFAIK with Toyota.

Dennis mahoney Kilbarrick charged me 100 quid for battery check every second service under Warrenty ....has that changed ?

I dropped the service manager to Clarehall. it was he who told me the battery health check was free—he said to ask for Dunner IIRC.

[Octavia1]

The engine revving is probably just more noticeable as they're fairly quiet most of the time.You do become very aware of noises that you wouldn't have heard in a diesel.Same with the EVs.Putting tape over the rev counter might work also..

Putting the car in for a battery health check wouldn't do any harm. It's free AFAIK with Toyota.

Dennis mahoney Kilbarrick charged me 100 quid for battery check every second service under Warrenty ....has that changed ?

I dropped the service manager to Clarehall. it was he who told me the battery health check was free—he said to ask for Dunner IIRC.

Nice one ...but I'm sure ther are conditions...not mad about that place

[silverbullet]

The engine revving is probably just more noticeable as they're fairly quiet most of the time.You do become very aware of noises that you wouldn't have heard in a diesel.Same with the EVs.Putting tape over the rev counter might work also..

Putting the car in for a battery health check wouldn't do any harm. It's free AFAIK with Toyota.

Dennis mahoney Kilbarrick charged me 100 quid for battery check every second service under Warrenty ....has that changed ?

I dropped the service manager to Clarehall. it was he who told me the battery health check was free—he said to ask for Dunner IIRC.

Nice one ...but I'm sure ther are conditions...not mad about that place

Try David Stokes Motors.  https://www.chargedhybrid.ie/ I bought the Prius hybrid battery from them. They're nice people to deal with. Josh replaced the battery in my 131 Prius in about 30 minutes.

[mercenary for hire]

The only thing about the battery test is there's nothing they can do except replace the battery if it's bolloxed.There's no software that can modify bogey cells to make them behave differently.So Toyota will give you a battery check and extend the warranty....but only if it's not bolloxed after they've tested it.Not quite a scam but more for peace of mind.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

i was up in howth late last night no traffic perfect oppurtunity.
i went up the summit pub and turned right back down the hill set the adaptive cruise control to 50 and let the car drive.
it behaved itself and i hadta tap the breaks a few times and restart the adaptive cruise control again.
i thought i was on a winner when just approaching the abbey tavern the car started screaming upta 4000rpm for the next 5 minutes.

[Octavia1]

i was up in howth late last night no traffic perfect oppurtunity.
i went up the summit pub and turned right back down the hill set the adaptive cruise control to 50 and let the car drive.
it behaved itself and i hadta tap the breaks a few times and restart the adaptive cruise control again.
i thought i was on a winner when just approaching the abbey tavern the car started screaming upta 4000rpm for the next 5 minutes.

...yea but it won't do any harm ...as I said I tink (99% sure)  its burnin off excess energy stored in the battery from goin down the hill ...plus wen it's screaming it isn't using any petrol if yur worried bout fuel consumption...the electric motor is driving the engine
....its protecting yur battery ...let it scream away