Prius Three -- New Car Purchased!

Hi All,
Our Prius Two repair is an ongoing matter. Thanks to everybody providing input on that post, I gained a lot of insight. The separate cause to celebrate is we purchased a new 2015 Prius Three yesterday, and dove it home last night. I was the first to fall in love with the new vehicle. My wife is a close second. It is gorgeous -- Sea Glass Pearl, gray interior. We used Costco pricing, after doing a lot of research, including on Carmax, and CarGurus, a webpage that tracks deals in your area. A good price was had, along with the Toyota $1000 rebate and a five-year 0% financing.
Issues I am currently grappling with, and reading discussions here concerning, are the extended maintenance and extended warranty offers they made. I told them I would sleep on those items and will get back to them.
I feel really glad to have found Priuschat and all you folks in thie past week or so.
Regards,
Beatle

 

My post seeking maintenance help on the Prius Two started out under a fatual scenario where it looked like the hybrid battery might become a problem down the road because it had code history, but the present voltage was okay. Then mid week I was driving the car, and the red triangle came back on. The code this time was for the hybrid battery, which is shot. So, my wife needeing a car to depend on, we bought the new Prius THREE. On Priuus Two, I plan to raise the to Toyota how close to the line of the warranty coverage -- 8 year or 150K miles -- this was, and see what happens there. If Toyota is not willing to cover all or part of the repair, I will probably install a remanufactured battery. My tech friend says he will do the work, along with the punch list of inspect and replace items, if you remember that part of my post. Upon repair the Prius will become the family's second car. The Prius THREE is a sweet car, and having it takes the time pressure off fixing the Prius Two. It will be interesting to see whether Toyota responds to my pitch for a good faith coverage of the hybrid battery, given our purchase of the new Prius, and demonstration of brand loyalty. I am still mulling over exactly how to work that into my request.

 

I am going to shop around to see what kind of price I get on the extended warranty. The pros and cons weigh in favor of us getting the EW. Our personality style makes it suitable. Once I put my money down, I will see to it that everything that comes up gets fixed. If we are outside warranty, my cheapness gene will make me want to slide by on things that break down and that is a slippery slope I want to avoid. That, plus on our 2004 Prius, the MFD and Nav system broke and was repaired under the EW, so we felt it was worth it. The Prius Three has a back up camera and even more electronic bells and whistles that make me feel it is a worthwhile investment. This brings me to a question -- what is the name and contact information of the dealer that sponsors Priuschat?

BTW --- Pictures will follow later on today of a snow packed brand new beauty of a Prius Three sitting in our driveway. You have any idea what it is like driving home from a morning at school (adult Korean language class), in a snowstorm, with cars sliding around, and our Prius has about 20 miles on the odometer! I was very careful, believe me. And we won't easily forget our family's maiden voyage. My speed in mph was far less than the number of miles on the odometer --- an interesting phenomena, which I don't think happens that often. I told our daughter that as of now we have the oldest and newest cars on our block -- a 1995 Toyota Tacoma 4 WD, and a 2015 brand spanking new Prius!!! How awesome is that?

 

Yes -- the family owns three Toyotas. It may seem like a lot, however, the Tacoma is a 5 sp stick shift, and the wife doesn't know how to drive a manual, so that put the pressure on to deal with the car situation right away.
And the Prius Two is running, but the battery is kaputski.