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3rd Gen. No low oil indicator

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by 2013Prius3, Aug 17, 2024 at 6:49 PM.

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    2013Prius3 New Member

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    Not sure how many people are aware of this/ and or if this has already been discussed here. I just wanna inform and help those who don’t know, these for whatever reason do not have a light or indicator of any kind alerting of low oil!
    At least not on my 3rd gen 2013. Also the temperature light can be hard to miss and these are notorious for overheating due to the headgasket failure. If this happens you are more than likely out several thousand for a new engine. I’m personally looking at changing to Android, As they have a free app that will monitor all the engine and battery vitals. Good luck all and hope this helped at least one person!
     
    #1 2013Prius3, Aug 17, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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    That's the game plan when you overheat or mess up one of these generally you should be getting a new engine not just changing a head gasket and all of that messing around these engines have no meat in their design there's no room to machine anything or any of that kind of stuff so once things warp break etc they get replaced not rebuilt or any of that there's nothing on a 2ZZ for the engine rebuilder to work with if you understand that so generally you're buying the center section the reciprocating mass all of that is separate because it's a modular designed engine that's just the way it be.
     
    #2 Tombukt2, Aug 18, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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    i dreampt last night that i had to change the head gasket on my 1970 fiat 124 sedan.
    they planed the head, but the block was warped, and after it was done, the pistons and valves were touching.
     
    #3 bisco, Aug 18, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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