You are incorrect.
You have removed the reflective surface inside the tail lamp housing with the ZEP treatment, so now your brake and turn signal lamps' intensity, and therefore visibility, is effectively reduced.
You have indeed created a situation for yourself.
Steve
While "coasting," the hybrid is in regen braking mode until the battery is full, then the engine comes on to assist slowing down, which is what the vehicle assumes you want when you take your foot off the accelerator. Once the battery is full, there is no more capacity for regen braking - the...
Okay randymeeker, under no circumstances should you remove the heat shield from the farocoupler, on account of what @oysterville posted above.
Experience is the best teacher, but you'll only get to experience that once.
Steve
Nah. It was all about some differences between real world experience and a magazine article review he read.
We don't know the objectivity, driving style or the presupposed expectations of the people who test drove the vehicle and had input to the article.
Your driving style will no doubt differ...
I normally start in SPORT mode until the engine gets to operating temperature, which is rarely above 185 degrees. After it gets to that temp, I'll switch to another mode.
Not good for mileage, but I figure better for the engine to try to get rid of warm-up engine block condensation early in the...