100K mile sticker shock

follow toyotas maintenance guide, consider adding tranny fluid change

 

You just have to understand the service adviser is just a salesman. He makes his money by selling services. If you don’t want it, just decline the services.

next time you can use a different adviser, this one seems too aggressive in sales

 

What bisco said.

Hybrid fan cleaning - Not really necessary unless you transport long haired pets or your car is constantly dirty. Changing the filter is a must to prevent this though.

Inverter/coolant flush - does have to be done, but follow maintenance schedule. SLLC coolant still does breakdown and needs to be flushed out. Just takes a really really long time to get to this point.

Brake flush - brake fluid does age and moisture does contaminate it. Will have to be done at some point. Brake jobs usually do not include this unless you specified it.

Fuel injection cleaning - No. Unless you use poor quality fuel this is a job that is meant to pad a bill. Once or twice a year, just run a tankful of Techron or fuel additive to help. I like to run Berryman's B-12 as well as Lucas Upper Cylinder Lube additives a couple times a year.

Top Induction Service - sounds like MAF cleaning. You can do this yourself, not very complicated. But ask them to specify what this would entail and post here.

Tires + alignment - Costco FTW here. They offer one of the best tire for the Prius, Bridgestone Ecopias, and they do free rotations for the life of the tire. If you need new tires, just wait for Costco to put Bridgestones on sale and do this instead.

Alignment - not necessary unless work was done on the suspension, you hit a pothole or curb really hard and knocked the suspension out of spec, are having odd/uneven tread wear on the tires, or are pulling to one side of the road on a flat road. I've had my Two Eco since new and have never even thought about doing this in that time.

And as always, shop around. Many independent shops do work on the Prius.

One of my Toyota dealerships has a mechanic rate of $200/hr. For $200/hr, I expect quality work and not half-assed work.

 

They are called 'stealerships' for a reason.

 

This is why I started doing my own maintenance about 20-years ago...just a crying shame! Do you want to learn how to start doing your own? To do your own oil changes (the most important maintenance item), you'll just need a set of ramps (I like the Rhino ramps) you can drive on, metric 3/8th drive socket set, oil filter wrench, funnel, and an oil drain pan. I just priced it out on Amazon and they are only $125.
Warning...it's fun and you'll soon find yourself also changing out transmission fluid, coolant, differential fluid, spark plugs, etc.

 

For that hybrid battery cooling fan under the rear seat, just remove the cover and shine a light in there. My wife has a 2017 and it, still, looks clean. I did replace that cloth air filter that's in there once but, to be honest, there wasn't a lot of stuff in the old one. (Part Number is G92DH-47070)

 

It might help if the manufacturers would dedicate Shop Manual sections to the specific maintenance items listed in the maintenance schedule, make sure they're thorough and practical, and make those sections freely available to purchasers of their cars.