Prius 09 , 3rd gen , 175000km or 110000miles

I'm not understanding completely: is Toyota saying your hybrid battery be still under warranty, if you had made it to that service in time?

What was the service, an oil change and tire rotation for example? If that's the case, seems like they're just looking for an excuse to avoid honoring warranty.

For that matter: as far as I know, you're not obligated to do any routine maintenance at a Toyota dealership; any competent garage can do it, or you can Do-It-Yourself. If the latter, it helps to keep a detailed log and all receipts.

Or am I mis-reading?:

 

welcome to prius chat!

there are lots of threads here on battery rebuilding. see one from @ryousideways . it is inexpensive, but very time consuming. proper rebuilding will buy you some time, but a new battery will get you another 8-10 years

 

That's what they're saying at the dealership, but I wonder if Toyota corporate in your country will also say that. It maybe be illegal: in North America I believe the burden of proof is on the auto manufacturer, and good luck to the lawyers, trying to argue that a hybrid battery failure was due to a single instance of oil change being a little late.

 

all the best!

 

you probably have a cell on the verge of bad, going back and forth.

 

Same here at Finland, Battery warranty is only 1 year/15k kms at the time, until 8y/350k km come and you get another 1y/15k km warranty when ”hybrid health check” is done by Dealer. So, if you drive for example 16k km before next ”hybrid health check” the warranty is out until you get a health check. Your problem then if there is some hv battery problems, you are out of warranty.
Nice way to get peoples money.

Toyotas Hybrid warranty EU style.

 

I have had quite many Toyotas, not one have had service light or so.

 

Hi!
This is a online shop in US. They ship world wide:
Electron Automotive – Hybrid Solutions

Doing it yourself is easy but time consuming. There is plenty of videos online.

 

I know what's the situation here. The car, when new comes with guarantee for the battery for couple of years. After that you can "extend" the guarantee by going to the certified dealer. They just check if the battery is fine and they extend the guarantee, if they see it's dying they tell you that you need replacement and they don't extend guarantee anymore at that point.
Basically they trick you into doing maintenance only at their shop till the battery shows signs of degradation and then they charge you for battery replacement. The only risk they take is when the battery actually dies during that one year between checks but I'm sure they will tell you to change the battery before any issues might show.

 

I don't know about Slovienia spec cars, but my '08 Prius had a Service Vehicle indicator every 5K miles. Yours does not?

 

Canadian Prius don't have the service warning either.

 

Maybe some confusion: 3rd gen, 2010 model year in North America, were shipping halfway through 2009.