I hereby apologise formally for the bad crashes I caused in Pool 3, Lap 2, and you can be assured that any complaints will be treated with the utmost seriousness by a replacement Appeals Arbiter.

Solar Hydro

See my post above. The decision is made, and will be issued before the next race.

Solar Hydro

(just back from the beer shop to replenish my supplies of Chimay Bleue, Piraat, Westmalle Tripel, and a few new speciality beers).

Thanks PowerSlave,

I shattered my pb today in an online race, and posted a corresponding hotlap (currently 21st) and I may try your set tomorrow.

Solar Hydro

I'm gonna run R3s front definitely and I don't think I can do 25 laps without a pitstop.

Solar Hydro

I posted a 'no hard feelings, etc.' on the OLFSL chatterbox.

Send me Powerslave's setup and confirm whether 0 pitstops is viable with it for the 25 laps?

Solar Hydro

Sorry, but I tried to join the server at 18:56-7 or so and many times thereafter :-'(

Solar Hydro

Well, I waited 33 minutes, and now I give up

Solar Hydro

Top right in the server selection menu ("Meeting Room")

Sol

I'm still trying to get them to notice us, meet me in LFS meeting room!

Solar Hydro

Password please??

I think I should be able to make it.

Solar Hydro

I park at airports a lot ;-)

I added a picture of a Prius taxi I spotted in Ljubljana to the set of pictures linked at the start of this thread. Saw another Prius taxi there again this month of December. It had 'HIBRID' written in big black letters on the yellow rear bumper.

Solar Hydro

Last edited by Solar Hydro, Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:39.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Omg! You're really obsessed with that fuel consumption. And electric motors are for wheelchairs

So I guess you're happy with it?

Bismarck asked me for real-world performance statistics (high up in this thread); I am providing them

The car fully meets my expectations, until now, but I've only had it since 3 September 2005, so it's early days yet to judge.

Points I don't like: rear-window visibility is poor (strange rear spoiler), too many electronic beeps for all kinds of 'features' (including reverse gear), fuel gauge not detailed enough (doesn't have a countdown in km like some recent cars), the emergency triangle in the boot gets loose and rattles (I've fixed that a few times, but it starts again after a while, need to think of a permanent fix), traction control and stability control cannot be turned off, a new little rattle in the right front door (I HATE rattles, need to look into fixing that one), the plastic wheel covers, still looking for proper rims.

Solar Hydro

Ack, I needed another pitstop after all before the end of the year...

Sixth refuel on the Prius today.

After having traveled 774 kilometres on this fuel tank, I added 43.5 liters (costing 55.55 euros, Q8 brand), yielding:

5.62 liters per 100km (Prius meter shows 5.3), i.e. by far my worst result.

Converted to other measurements, this means:
41.85 MPG USA
50.26 MPG Imperial

Temperature in the past weeks was around freezing for several days, we had snow again, and I had to wait for my colleague to defrost her car's locks with my engine idling for 10 min (from cold start while it was freezing = very bad for fuel efficiency). Note: The Prius doors can be opened with the key in one's pocket... it's called "smart entry" and it works ;-)

Solar Hydro
Happy New Year, again princess:frosty::wizard:

Oh, I just discovered this thread; here's my car:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=39880124&size=l

I posted fuel efficiency data (I have refueled 5 times since I got the car), and some other data on the 'Got my Prius' thread in the forum for *The Original LFS League.

Note the GTR style diffuser on the rear of the car (it's standard).

Solar Hydro

Hello,

You can expect two Appeals Arbiter decisions to be issued, both relating to Pool 2. They will be published before the next race; work is well advanced (one is completed, other is basically decided but not yet drafted), I'm not committing to a precise publication time since that's not under my control.

Merry Christmas, don't expect presents from the Appeals Arbiter ;-)

Solar Hydro

OOps, too many Russians, sorry

Solar Hydro

Hello Russraine,

If you formulate this as a formal complaint addressed to the Appeals Arbiter, then it will be assessed and a decision will be issued in due course.

I can see from the writing style that tempers are boiling... perhaps you could amend your post to make it understandable for someone who wasn't at this race.

Who is your dad?

Sincerely,

Solar Hydro, OLFSL Appeals Arbiter

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Fifth refuel on the Prius today.

The colder temperatures clearly have a major effect on Prius fuel consumption, although the temperature surely affects any car's fuel efficiency.

After having traveled a meagre 811 kilometres on this fuel tank (using the Total Excellium fuel discussed before), I added 43.10 liters, yielding:

5.31 liters per 100km (Prius meter shows 5.2, was fluctuating near the edge of 5.2 and 5.3 all the time).

Converted to other measurements, this means:
44.3 MPG USA
53.2 MPG Imperial

Temperature in the past weeks was around freezing for several days, we had snow, and generally 0-2-3-5-7 degrees centigrade.

Solar Hydro, now operating on Q8 fuel for the remainder of the year 2005. Happy New Year already princess:frosty::wizard:

Pff... awesome, and congrats...

I have to compete with this with a chair on wheels that rolls backwards and makes me unable to reach my pedals several times per lap, and a wheel that gets de-calibrated to ususable level every 5 laps on rallycross ;-)

How does LFS run on an LCD? I bought a big CRT to run it last year, but it doesn't really fit on my desk.

Solar Hydro

I was using patch Q (I think, where does it show?) and managed to stay online, but there were disconnects in Pool 3 as well.

Solar Hydro

43ms from Belgium...
(unfortunately I was alone on the server at 1am)

Solar Hydro

Fourth refuel on the Prius today.

After having traveled a meagre 841 kilometres on this fuel tank, I added 44.65 liters (by far the most, pretty near the end of the 45l capacity), yielding:

5.308 liters per 100km (Prius meter shows 5.0).

Converted to other measurements, this means:
44.31 MPG USA
53.22 MPG Imperial

Explanatory factors include:

- Even more motorway driving (went to a far away airport);

- Getting stuck in several LONG traffic jams (after 30 min of start/stop crawling where the Prius is awesome, it desperately wants to charge the battery);

- Heating (last days were 2-5-8 degrees centigrade); the Prius heater is amazingly quick, you get real heat in under 1 minute from cold start.

Now I've grabbed that Total Excellium fuel again for a second try, to see if their claims have any veracity.

Note: the Prius fuel tank contains a 'bladder' which responds to temperature and air pressure etc, which explains (I hope) the differences between the Prius meter and my own measurements. Then again, my maths might well be completely wrong.

Solar Hydro

P.S.1. The price was €1.288/l for 95 octane
P.S.2. Bad start: after 1 day Prius meter shows 5.3l/100km.

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I was hosting Pool 1 and speccing the tyre explosion in real-time, but this movie sheds a different light on it, a bit like the team assistance trucks in Paris-Dakar to help the stranded drivers ;-)

The Appeals Arbiter will have to think about team orders of a new kind: hit teammate in front to avoid forced reset...

Good stuff!

Solar Hydro

Quote from kramer008 :

Hehe you were not the only bowling ball in this race.
This is when my and Sracer's tyre blew up in the last lap.
Bowling