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Mobile Hybrid Battery mechanic in Chapel Hill NC

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Prius06fix, May 21, 2024.

  1. Prius06fix

    Prius06fix New Member

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    Looking for a reputable mobile electrician mechanic who could come to our home in Chapel Hill NC to test and fix defective hybrid battery modules. The car is from 2006, has 130K miles, and the hybrid battery only 80K miles. We were told with that mileage it’s probably fixable by replacing faulty modules. Thx
     
  2. bisco

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    generally speaking, they will bring a reconditioned battery to swap with yours. swapping and balancing in your driveway would be a task, and cost more.
     
  3. TMR-JWAP

    TMR-JWAP Senior Member

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    Properly rebuilding a hybrid battery is not a driveway job. A proper rebuild will measure each of the 28 module capacities and determine which are in need of replacement. It's easy to find a failed module. It takes a bit more time to find the module(s) that's going to fail 2 months from now. After gathering that data, properly matched replacement modules can be installed. ~50% of the time, the wire harness plug and ecu are damaged from corrosion at the ecu pin socket and must be replaced.

    I've even fixed a few where the only problem with the battery was the harness and ecu. How does the car have 130k but the hybrid battery have 80K? When was it replaced, why was it replaced and with what brand was it replaced? Was it done at a Toyota dealer?
     
  4. Tombukt2

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    I'm 20 minutes away and I'm in chapel Hill seemingly a hundred times a day I live between the University and Hillsboro off Borland road I could take a look well whenever I guess things are kind of busy this week but not too bad anyway there are several people up that way My battery guy is about an hour away from you He will come to your house but probably not until Thursday Friday or Saturday My phone number's in my profile. Good luck with it
     
  5. Prius06fix

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    Thank you all. Great responses.