Newbie here, my friend refer me to this forum when I ask him bout buying prius. Found few 2013 and 2014 prius v two with high mileage. Should I buy it? they priced it accordingly which is cheaper by few k. no accidents. off lease. 2013 147k miles $8500 2014 157k miles $8000 - hv battery replacement soon? - what other big maintenance coming up soon? - any particular things to look out/inspect? - any reco for pre purchase inspection in atlanta? What do you think?
Assuming you are going to drive it a few years, I would factor in a $2300 new battery (or a $1400 rebuilt) during your ownership and an $800 egr job at the minimum. So it should be at least $3k worth of good deal and even then you should really like the car, color, ride, etc. It should ride and drive pretty much like a new car and have no obvious defects. Everything else being equal I would take the newer one with 10k more miles. It would not hurt to spend a hundred or so at a dealer and have it checked out and run a carfax on it. I would not finance it longer than maybe 24 months at a low interest rate. Pricing | Hometown Hybrids
was it well taken care of? Did the owner record all previous maintenance? is this your primqry car? if something breaks are you okay with paying the bill?
carfax clean. its from fleet leasing/rental. carfax showed all the maintenance done so far but most were regular maintenance. I dont see any major work done. its gonna be my primary driver. I dont mind take this to toyota dealer for pre purchase inspection. Saving is at least $3.5k to $4k
carfax came back with company owned fleet/lease regular maintenance is recorded plan to use the saving for repair
any feedback on using drprius app to check battery expectancy/stress test etc? Tested on my friend 2012 prius v with 130k, the battery expectancy is 59% but on the main app screen I can see #7 is always very low, is that mean #7 about to kaput?
I don't think there is an exact science to testing those batteries. I think that app is measuring how fast they charge and discharge which is an indicator of storage capacity more than voltage. Clearly toyota has limits on cell differences which I expect creates the dreaded P0A80 code but I am no expert. It seems heat will degrade them faster but most reports are they last at least 200k while many make 250k miles or more. A few go sooner.
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