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Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by terramir, Jan 25, 2022.

  1. Tombukt2

    Tombukt2 Senior Member

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    Yeah I want an electric car too but I want something more like a lucid The Tesla is a trade-off of a lot of technologies and it seems a lot of the owners are having to bear the brunt of these expensive failures that do happen they're not massive and they're not in the millions but when they happen to you they're very expensive Tesla's use of certain types of electric motors front end components door handles and the like we're not well thought out and very costly and other companies have nipped these things in the bud I'd also like to get more voltage closer to a thousand volts rather than 400 things drastically change up in that area so few things to go yet no rush gas is going to be here for a good minute longer it's going to take a a long time to phase gas out just look at all the anti-vaxxers and all the crazies You think gas is going to be leaving here easily Good luck with that
     
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    I think that's good advice. I have not had to replace coils in our Prius but did recently play this game in another car. So I now know from firsthand experience that Amazon and eBay are completely flooded with trash-grade coils and plugs. Some are unknown brands and others are counterfeits of well-known brands including Denso.

    The key here: buy your ignition parts from a local shop if at all possible.
     
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    Well that's fine logic no problem there that would be like me saying I only buy Exxon gas because okay no problem I don't and wouldn't but it's to me the same I have cheap coils on my 2013 Prius coming out of the box my cheap coils look a lot nicer than the Denso coils they're pretty which I could care less about but when they're mounted to the car even the caps the top part that I see where the little 10 mm bolt screws through and holds the unit down look nicer than the original densos Not that that matters but it's interesting to me it's like they made that a thing like everything today is made to look some kind of way when you open the hood of a new Ford truck you see all that plastic and BS under there it's just for looks like the big VVTI cover that sits on top of my 1MZ engine strictly for looks has no reason to be there doesn't help airflow over the valve covers nothing it's there because it makes the car to me look really cheap Big plastic things sitting over my nice aluminum valve covers Great. When you think about what a coil does a coil over plug does not a whole lot to it you wonder how somebody could spend all their time screwing that up..
     
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    Yeah but I ruled out the ignition coil now at least for the issue now this weekend I am gonna replace the fuel injectors for ones I know are good and the sparkplugs as well. But here's the thing if that doesn't fix it I'm gonna need to get it towed to a shop I got no compression testing equipment and well this is the best hope I got.
     
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    Generally, screwing it up isn't the goal of the counterfeiters. The goal is just to spend as little money to make it as possible, and keep the rest as profit, and leave whether it works or not, or for how long, to be somebody else's concern.

    When you think about what a brake pad does, not a whole lot to that either. But it turns out you can make them very cheaply by using dried grass.

    They don't stop people's cars very well, and they catch fire a bit more often than non-grass ones do, but hey, they're cheap, and that's profit for the seller.
     
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