I have 2013 Prius II. I've had the car since 2015 with 39k miles. I recently hit 190k miles. I just changed the water pump a 2 months ago and immediately after I had to do brakes, rotors, and 1 caliper. Now the brake system has gone haywire. The car needs a brake booster and master cylinder replacement. From what I'm seeing this is a $2000 repair on average. Is it worth it to keep pouring money into this car or just move on? The car also needs a 12v battery. I'll be honest I have never been the best with maintaining the car. I recently found out about having the EGR and haven't gotten that done yet. I checked Dr. Prius and it shows the battery level to be at 60%. Not heavily, but the engine also burns oil. I'm just trying to get some insight to make a decision. Thank you
There will be at least 3 expensive failures on this car. All of them will average $2000 or more. So if you’re not prepared to throw $6000 or more into this car, it’s best you don’t invest in this repair. If you have the means to get a newer car, that would be best
What are the 3 repairs? I'm assuming one is the battery and the other is this one I currently have to do. Maybe I can get an idea from a mechanic where I am with having to do those. I can manage them one at a time possibly, but I'm also on the fence because what if the engine or transmission decides to go after everything. I'm really trying to avoid having a car note
Some enjoy painting a horrible picture because they had issues so they want others to suffer like them so they can feel better... EVERY car has issue and parts and labor are expensive. If you are able to do the labor part the cost is about 75% less. The head gasket, hybrid battery, and possibly brake master cylinder and pump actuator can be expensive. I replaced my hybrid battery about 2 years ago with the lithium then sodium ion pack. Fairly easy job to do. I replace the head gasket at 301,000 miles. I had planed on replacing it before it went. Not knowing just how long it would before it did fail so I already had 95% of the parts I needed and was just choosing a date, so it wasn't a disaster for me. It wasn't too difficult of a job. The brakes are still going. Though the pump cycling is down to about 17 seconds. So I know it's a matter of time before it needs to be done. I had been making plans to replace of replacing the brake parts AND the engine with a remanufactured one at the same time so that I would have more room with the engine out to replace the brake parts. But my driving went down from around 700 miles a week to less than 100. And I've been driving my van the one day I week I travel about 200 miles. So replacing the engine is really not worth it just because it's burning oil, and I'm driving it 98% of the time in the city so less oil burning. I had also though about just doing the short block, but I still need to remove the whole engine. It would be a lot quicker and a lot less work to replace the whole thing. If you have to pay someone else to do the work, then yes, it is expensive. But what does a new car cost??? And even a used car cost a lot. And sooner or later you'll have failures on that car also. So you'll have to do that math and see figure out financially and time wise what is best for YOU. No what is best for someone else.
