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Prius battery life and replacement cost?
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| Battery Curmudgeon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Santa Fe, NM
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Friends: 10 | Scenario: car is at the body shop long enough that the 12V runs down. They jump it in order to deliver the car to you. Battery is still >90% discharged by the time you get it home. Then you go to start it two days later and it is dead. I'll give you a 5% chance that trickle charging restores it. Here's the problem. After 5 years on the original 12V, you are on borrowed time, and one little incident like what you describe is all that it takes to cause a fatality. Especially on the non SKS cars, the 12V is extremely fragile. I just lost one out of a 2007 on its last legs by having the car in Ig-On for just 30 seconds. Now it has a dead cell. The body shop may have been the catalyst, but most likely it was on its last legs.
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Friends: 74 | I am in agreement with seilerts. |
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Friends: 0 | Seilerts, F8L, thanks for your replies. I will confirm after my visit to the dealer shortly. -Prs. |
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Friends: 0 | good point. I will do that shortly. however, reading this thread, I did the vehicle signal check and got the following readings: IG OFF - 12.4V and with the headlight on, 12.1 V IG ON - 11.6 V and with the headlight on, 11.3V. somewhere I read that the nominal should be 13.9V with IG OFF. How do I know if the battery is good/ bad with this information? Also, the service check revealed some codes - are those the OBDII codes? or what the dealer will be finding out? |
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Your 12v battery is weak as it should hold its voltage better under load. Quote:
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Friends: 0 | My 2006 just lasted 6yrs and I am in the process of replacing the battery now with a quote of $4000 at the dealer I am going to a refrub battery for 1250, installed cost averager $400 to 700 from the dealers. |
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Friends: 0 | What I really would like to know is the average time it takes to replace the battery? |
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Friends: 2 | How many miles have you put on it ralexj? |
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