2010 Prius III - fix or nix

Nix

 

That's a lot for the OEM battery. Electron Hybrid solutions sells a new type with cylindrical cells for $2200. That's a lot of miles, but I guess not too bad for a Prius. If you can afford something newer, I'd go that route. I have my eye on a Rav4 hybrid...

 

nicks, you'll be doing the head gasket and brake actuator soon

 

Generally with this car you're not even at half life yet and you can't do anything so you have to pay just that simple this is all easy work but you don't do any of that so you're stuck paying That's how it works how it's always been I wouldn't pay to do that I would just do that at my house at my leisure that's why I have four vehicles powersports equipment motorcycles etc so when I want to go somewhere there's no discussion of that I just get on whatever and go when you only have one vehicle and so on then you could be stuck so you don't have any choices and you have to make quick decisions and make poor decisions quickly because it's a rush rush rush or I can't can't can't. So maybe you should try to put yourself out of that situation so you're not stuck The hybrid battery is somewhat a problem If you're upwardly mobile and you think soon you're not going to need this car anymore because you're going to have a better job and be working in an office and all and all then don't do anything and just go buy you an avio or whatever and call it a day but if there's chances that none of this is going to happen as above you may want to keep this car because it's done you very well till now and it will keep doing you very well until whenever those are only choices you can make My battery guy charges me $400 for a remanufactured battery that he builds at his shop right up the street I've gotten two or three years out of those bad boys generally speaking so that's a good deal for me I also have a couple of cars that have brand new batteries in them and we don't worry about those for about 7 years plus so it just depends on what you can deal with. There's no magic at Prius chat. It's like any other vehicle except you see the generation 2 has carried you almost 300,000 mi with minimal anything. So you can get back to that or move forward to something else and I can assure you you won't have such luck I wish you well and good luck

 

I'd call that a good run and hang it up.

 

It depends on if you want to keep the car or not....
$3600 for the hybrid battery is a LOT!
You can get the new Sodium battery for 1/2 of that. And it can't (shouldn't) be more
than $300 to install it.
You'll always going to need tires. Bearings, That seems a lot, unless they are hubs from
Toyota or Timkin hubs...

If you get a used vehicle, you don't REALLY know the history and what parts it may need.
Or will need to in the near future, what will that cost?

Buying new would be the safest bet, but cost a LOT more for a lot longer.