2008 Prius Potential Hybrid Battery Failure Advice Wanted

Yes before proceeding further you need to find somebody with tech stream the software for Toyota and read the trouble codes and any subcodes A leak in the trunk very commonly gets to the hybrid battery and its case and water can find its way in there and it can wreak havoc and cause lights and all kinds of nonsense so you kind of want to try and rule that out while you have possession of the vehicle and then if you're going to order cells for you're HV battery . You need to talk to the battery rebuilders and see if you were to bring them 28 new sales could they put you together a rack with new bus bars and whatever it is you're going to provide new nuts the fancy nuts that connect better whatever and take that all to a battery rebuilding kind of guy somebody more private than one of the franchises like the green tecand beans and all that are like franchises and they have by-laws and mission statements and all this nonsense in place that make them can't do businesses type of affairs so if you find somebody who's more private who may be works on more of the EV and hybrid battery type markets like repairing Teslas and lefs and what have you. You stand a better chance of somebody who was going to cooperate with you bringing in 28 new cells . And bars nuts and whatever. The franchise people are going to give you a bunch of excuses because they want to just mark everything up 60% or whatever they're doing so they're not going to be so good about it. But to be honest about it even the Spanish guys are doing this kind of work down in East LA now so I'm on the East Coast I can't really help you with places that well.

 

did they put any oil in after draining? perhaps the engine shut down and yu drained the battery driving on ev.

 

You're in Washington State I would think there should be some EV hybrid battery folks out there and by other work I've had done out in Oregon and Washington and the people I know out there would probably be a pretty bang-up shop too so I don't know anybody I'll ask one of my friends but she's driving a complete electric leaf I think or something doesn't really go anywhere mostly rides bikes and human-powered vehicles and all this kind of nonsense.

 

I just put a brand new battery in my '09 about 5 months ago and to be totally honest about it I would recommend you do the same You can fiddle fart around with rebuilding batteries and having people do all this labor and nuts and bus bars and blah blah blah But at the end of the day you don't rebuild d cells for your maglite flashlight You don't rebuild batteries for your more important transportation I wouldn't think. That being said I did buy a rebuilt remanufactured by a place called the hybrid Doctor up around Fairfax Virginia He was a really nice guy from South America really cool dude I would suggest you give him a ring He advertises all over the internet they drive little white with green and black logo Prius is it say the hybrid doctor on the side of them I actually bought a rack of cells from him supposedly balanced it within three Delta blah blah blah all the buzzwords I have not had one ounce of trouble with that rebuilt battery for over a year It is run rock solid in my wife's generation 3 and I installed it The rack from the hybrid doctor was $640 and then the shipping to get that to me I don't remember what that was and he sent boxes for me to put my old silver battery plates in and send them back to him which I did I highly recommend him but with your distance shipping may be prohibitive I don't know