new owner need help please

first mistake you made is you brought your car to someone that didn't rebuild the battery properly for $1100. That's probably causing all your problems.

2nd mistake is buying a car with 178k miles and think it'll be the most reliable thing. The car is only designed to go about 180k miles, so it's already at the end of the designed service life. Now you can expect anything to fail at any time. Although you read many Prius go 300k miles, that doesn't necessarily mean it goes that many miles without problems or repairs.

 

welcome! thinking that any vehicle is going to be 'reliable' after 10 years and 178,000 miles, is definitely 'wrong'. for people who cannot afford much more, a small hyundai/kia or such with lower miles and years would be a better choice.

if you can diy, you will have to buy a scanner and identify the bad cells, remove the battery, relace and balance. if not, you will need another battery, or dump the car and start over. all the best!

 

Buying a car with 176,000 miles is a lot different than buying a new car.
If possible, people may want to get a pre-purchase inspection and have the battery checked prior to purchasing.
There is a chance the previous owner knew about the failing battery when they sold it to you. A check of the Toyota owner's site might clue you in.

Rebuilding a battery when done quickly, will likely fail again soon. What we like to call playing "Whack-a-Mole".
Replace one or two, and then soon, a few more begin to fail..
What company did the rebuilding?

 

It's very unfortunate, but you did buy a 10 year old vehicle with 178K miles on it. Reliability on any used vehicle with those credentials becomes suspect. With a hybrid probably running on it's original HV battery maybe more suspect.

I think you have to ask yourself how much more you wish to invest or possibly invest? Because nearly any machine can be repaired and restored but at some point the investment doesn't make sense. I can't answer that for you.
Also unfortunate is it sounds like you already put $1100 into a battery rebuild that may of not been the best choice. You have 1 year warranty so I suppose you just try to get at least 1 year of decent performance out of it.

All that being said, Prius's reliability reputation IMO is well earned and deserved.
Any 10 year old used vehicle, can become a nightmare of needed repair.

 

if you got a carfax, it should show the dealership service at 151k in 2013

 

well if it didn't show up, you have a claim with carfax

 

So for now, you need to go back to the outside shop that worked on your battery.
It is still within their 1 year warranty, correct?

1) Ask them to tell you what error codes are present. (For example P0A80, or any codes P3011-P3024)
2) Also them to tell you the "Delta SOC" value.

What is the name of the outside shop that did the battery work?

 

If you have all the lights lit up, including the battery light, I would think that there is a battery code present.

I also would think it's unlikely that a battery with that many miles would have a Delta SOC of 0.

Something does not add up.

 

my 2006 shows a battery soc at 0, does that mean it's in good shape?

 

IMHO, you should have went to the dealership first. They have the equipment to fix it right the first time, not fix it right next time.

So like the HV battery died but after replacing it, why isnt the battery charging

LG-D851 ?

 

Get the codes. They will point you in the right direction.

 

rolling back the odometer is a felony, IIRC. you definitely need to persue the odometer fraud before doing anything else. you might be able to get your money back for the car. you should not have to be stuck with that car when someone tampered with the odometer.

 

If the fan is on all the time, then the battery temp sensor is saying the battery is too warm.

If the engine runs continuously, then the battery could be overcharging.( The Hybrid System will run the engine trying to use or "burn off" excess charge).




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Could the battery temp sensor be unplugged?

LG-D851 ?