My Prius drove 5000 miles in two days without needing any gas!

What did they charge you?

 

That does not sound like they actually sent it to a bona fide Toyota dealership, because they would not fix it in that manner. It certainly sounds like they bought a secondhand unit off eBay.

 

If it works, what difference does it make? Hopefully they didn’t charge you anything.

 

okay, i'll bite

 

Good one, I’ll have to remember that.

 

If they send it to Texas Hybrid Batteries to be repaired you tell them your mileage and they program your unit and ship it to you. Then you send them your old combo meter and they use it for the next guy. Sounds like somebody made a mistake when they told them the mileage.
I'd ask the dealership to make it right somehow. Free oil changes for 3 years?

 

If only a "Toyota Certified Mechanic" actually had enough skill to know how to use a soldering iron to replace a capacitor... Sometimes I wonder if there's anything a Toyota mechanic knows how to do other than replacing the most expensive parts before doing a thorough diagnosis?

 

No car dealer will repair the parts. Doubt any hybrid shop would either. If you want that done, you have to DIY or swap with eBay part. There is no profit in fixing something like that that can be replaced with an eBay part.

 

When the dealer fixed the one in our 2007 they used the odometer reading from the previous visit (even though it was still in the "works most of the time" stage, so that they could have read the proper value). It was only a couple of hundred miles though.