Hello there.

I've been over at the Yahoo group but that its a mad house over there. This site is considerably better. Kudos to the designer(s).

I have a Prius II with around 7500 miles on it. When the engine shuts off the car quakes considerably. When I first got it I didn't notice this. My parents have a Prius I and I've driven that and it is smooth as silk - it's hard to tell when the IC engine is on or off. Not so with mine. Sometimes it's so bad a person in the passenger seat can feel it. Somtimes there is almost an afterrun as the engine shuts off and sort of coughs a few times. At least once when I was backing up, the car actaully accelerated very slightly because of the engine switching state. When the car is in park the car still shakes. This doesn't happen every time the engine changes state but several times every day.

I took it into the dealer twice. Both times I was told this was normal and that Toyota had increased the tension of the connections in the mechanical transfer system. I bought it for a while but the problem seems to be getting worse and I'm having a harder time believing this is normal.

So here are my quesitons: Does anyone else have a similar probem with their car and/or should this really be normal?

Thanks
Christian