Price Check: Would You Buy this 2016 Gen 4?

sounds good, but yes, it is certainly on the back nine. you could get many fairly trouble free miles, or it could wind up costing you a bundle.
with toyota, the first is more likely, but with used car sellers, who knows?

 

They clocked over 37K miles a year; so the maintenance records are VERY important! Who did it? It would require at least quarterly oil changes - 4x a year for maintenance to be up to date and what about coolant changes? They had exhaust gas heat exchanger issues in that year. So was the radiator replacement a misdiagnosis? Road debris damage would hit the AC condenser first.

IMHO; too many miles and too many questions. Recent tune-up and oil change is in-material with the mileage that's being put on it.

 

I don't think it's worth buying.

 

If it's got rear wiper it's not the Eco level. Good news then, it likely has the temp spare (something to check).

Being a 2016, it may have (or have had) the leaking Exhaust Heat Recovery issues, which leaks coolant into the exhaust. Also, it's guaranteed to be missing the toggle that switches speedometer between mph and kmh, say if you travel up to Canada.

There could be some "history" though. No idea what a "full tune up" entails, and between that and the thrice-yearly fuel injector cleaner seller seems a little misguided. Radiator replacement at 94k miles seems odd.

 

They probably saw something that didn't line-up with what they were being told - that's if that buyer ever existed to begin with. There's a lot of shady used car sales people out there and some people putting 'lipstick on pigs' to sell cars. Looks great cosmetically, but runs like crap. A few years ago, some noob thought he got a GREAT deal on a used Prius - only to find out that the odometer was rolled back to less than half the Carfax miles shown. He was asking us how to troubleshoot an odometer issue, because it wasn't moving forward. Caveat Emptor.

Good Luck.......

 

can you point us to that? i've never heard of it in 20 years of prius ownership

 

Perhaps some dealership’s recommendation? The phrase “fuel injector” doesn’t appear in Toyota USA’s maintenance schedule (attached).

also attached are my spreadsheet summaries of the above schedule (one as-is, and a second extrapolated to 240k miles), plus a pdf conversion of the basic one.

 

thank you.
1) every 15k OR when a decrease in performance is noticed

2) never follow dealer advice, they have yacht payments to make

3) you won't find it in the maintenance schedules that come with toyota vehicles, or from any of their literature

 

Its wild a toyota dealer recommends cleaning fuel injectors more often than changing coolant.

i cant offer much on the prospective buy, OP, but the “someone is coming to buy it” followed by subsequent price lowering - if you want the car show up with 6k cash. He priced it fairly, but wants to sell.

Personally id get a prius with 1/4 the miles for 18-20k.

One note - have seen “radiator” misnoted on carfax more than once. Once it was actually a radiator hose! If a toyo dealer, id ask for the redacted record.

 

Bought mine with 170k for the same price, it was much more rough than yours and needed way more. But it had the New and improved Nexpower Lithium Gen 4 option recently installed. These cars will do 300-400k without much like a Gen 3, I think it might be worth purchasing as a moderate daily driver. Verify VIN and Mileage with a Carfax report.

 

i like it!

 

We have two Gen 4's (2017 and 2021) and have had only minor issues with them. I had to replace the gas struts on the rear door in both after about 4-years but the cheapos on Amazon seem to be holding up well. (Toyota was just asking way too much for an OEM gas strut.)

There were some recalls, early on, for the Gen 4 so make sure those were taken care of. (Our 2017 had an odd one "Wire Harness recall and reprogram sonic ICS intel sensor")

 

I just brought a 2018 prius prime dont worry about the maintenance they are easy to dyi. the only problem that the car come with is leaky heat exchanger but you can bypass that.