Should I buy 2010 Base with 230K?

welcome!

price seems high.

not sure what 230,000 mile car is going to serve you well, especially adding that many more miles per year.
not sure what a new battery is canadian, about $2,000. american, plus installation.
but you will also have to worry about the tranny, engine, a/c, brake actuator, and the myriad of other parts and systems on the prius, some hybrid related and some not.
all the best!

 

see my edit above. yes, too risky.

 

See if complete service records are available. It does seem somewhat risky at that mileage and price not great, especially for a base model.

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It's a great deal. It's only 142,000 miles (230K kilometers) for 5K Canadian, assuming there are no major issues with it.

Too bad I don't live in Toronto. I'd be calling them this minute.

 

If you see it, look over carefully, inside and out, engine bay, spare tire well, underside. Ontario car, it's likely to be have rusty suspension components. See if you can get them down a bit. I'd suspect seller is motivated: that's a LOT of mileage. Test drive and watch the state of charge indicator; take it up and down a few hills and watch the charge indicator (hybrid battery status). It should progress up/down steadily.

FWIW, our garage stored, west coast 2010 Touring with only 65,000 kms still feels like new.

 

But for 143K miles? I am not sure. Another Prius user in the Toronto are could comment more authoritatively.
You used the Km figure.
It is great that it includes snow tires, though.

 

Go to a web site like Edmunds or KBB to get estimated value. I just checked Edmunds. The "private party" price for that year and mileage was US$5300 and dealer trade in US$4000. So your price is very good if the car is in good condition.

 

I wonder what it would cost for a Toyota dealer or other Hybrid mechanic to check it over?

 

You're welcome, by the way. You did write 230K kilometers initially. It was Bisco who misinterpreted the distance.

I am still waiting for the US to fully adopt the metric system. It took the Chicago Cubs 108 years to win another World Series. The US has had the opportunity to switch to the metric system since 1799 and continues to be one of the few to cling to the old one.

 

Metric adoption is a frustrating, ongoing process up here. We straddle two systems, and groin pulls are frequent occurrence.

 

What's not metric in Canada, for example?

 

I was in Canada when they made the switch in the 70s. It worked quite well once manufacturers learned it was not an opportunity to reduce package sizes. Moving from 10 lb bags of sugar to 4Kg bags caused quite an uproar.

I left in 1980 and missed the fuel migration from (Imperial) gallons to liters, though.

 

Big business has been taking advantage of this scheme for some time now.

Content weight decreases, package sizes stay the same or increase. Price increases. A good example is a bag of potato chips. The bag is roughly the same size but the number of chips has decreased replaced by air to take up the excess volume.

 

Well just for an example: a margarine tub: 3 lb or 1.36 kg. Supermarkets generally show produce and meat prices per pound prominently, kilos in small print.

Lumber, plywood. Wire gauges. Pipe sizes. Structural steel sections. The latter ARE identifiable in Canadian metric steel book, but they are rolled imperial shaped, no difference. Commonly available hardware: threaded rods, bolts and nuts are largely imperial, with a small metric section, special purpose stuff.

Photocopy paper. Photo paper, frame sizes. Mattresses, sheets. Curtains and rods.

Imperial measure still in very common use:

body weight
body temperature (normal, fever)

Oh vey, better take it the other way around, what's truly metric, and not just converted. Largely, it's bulk material, since that is easily adaptable:

gasoline (motor oil sold in stores is a mix, at least 50% quarts with liter conversion displayed)
Fuel consumption (well that's a bit of a mess, car dealerships LOVE miles per imperial gallon still)
temperature (this one I've pretty much got comfortable with)
speedometers, speed limits, and so on (ditto)
Concrete reinforcing bars (this is pretty much THE off the shelf metric item in use)

Working in engineering offices since the early eighties was a conversion zoo. You wouldn't believe the preposterous expense metric conversion imposed, in budget and compexity.

There was time in the '90's when missing person reports were invariably in metric. I recall thinking to myself, well that person's a goner, lol. No one will have a clue, with height and weight in metric.

Yeah I like those chip bags with the little window halfway up, and if you tip the bag, look up: you see there's nothing but air above. We've got a smoked salmon fillet from the same school:

 

At least your non-metric units are worldwide standards, unlike the US quart/gallon, etc.