High mileage taxi prius

If its very cheap and you're able and willing to make repairs when necessary, probably wouldn't be too bad as a project beater. By now you can get a Gen2 with ~150k miles for $5-7k. One repair to a 300k mile taxi could cost half of the purchase price of the lower mileage car.

 

i'm not sure what you're asking above, but i wouldn't buy a taxi, some of those drivers are crazy, and very hard on a car.

 

Agreed. I know a taxi driver. Not only they drive the car very hard, they drive a 24 hours non-stop two shift with another driver. you figure it out. So it is all about what do you expected from a former taxi.
People even buy former Black and white cop's car too ! and I don't know why?

 

a lot of service missing, done somewhere else?

 

when is a good deal not a good deal? sounds like you've already made up your mind.

 

since you already purchased one, the only correct answer is yes.

 

I would say besides regular tear and wear, traction battery. If they carried dogs it may be clogged with hair. But you will not be able to check it w/o opening.

To test the state of the battery you would need OBDII reader $5-10 for bluetooth on eBay, slightly more on Amazon, and Torque app. There is also an app for iPhone, but that requires WiFi OBDII which is ~$20.

ECU reports voltage for each module, and you can plot instant diff which shouldn't be more then 0.25-0.5V.

taxis are hard on traction battery as there is alot of acceleration and idling at low speeds. Besides tear and wear the major threat for battery is clogging with dust/lint

Engine should be fine if they used good synthetic oil. If it was conventional with 15k change intervals I wouldn't come close to it.

 

I don't remember on top of my head, but it is reported on OBDII plug. You'd need to find which parameters and then plot it or check the reported digital output. You'd need to do it static, while driving and under acceleration/braking. And I think battery temps are reported also.

If there are no codes reported but the discrepancies btw modules are high, battery may need re-balancing(?) We checked mine at ~160k and it was almost as good as co-workers 68K battery. But this is on one owner car with mostly highway miles.

BTW you can also check the state of 12V the same way, if turning car and lights drops below 12-12.2V, it maybe time to start looking for new 12V.

 

you've got oil and filters every 10k, then around 100k you're starting to do things like fluids, spark plugs and etc.a nice touch is the tranny fluid, but not a toyota requirement.

 

transaxle: ecvt, 4 quarts of toyota lubricant.

 

The routine maintenance would have been done at the taxi's garage of choice. If the records were logged in Toyota's database they were deleted. Toyota only keeps dealer service records after the car is sold.