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Coolant Resevoir

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by stanepstein, May 11, 2005.

  1. stanepstein

    stanepstein New Member

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    Just recently had a fender bender with my Prius. I have damage to the front left fender that exposed and damaged the coolant resevoir. I found out from the repair facility that this part cost $649 to replace! By contrast the high intensity headlight only costs $180. I really thought that these were more expensive than that.
     
    #1 stanepstein, May 11, 2005
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    Did you mean the thermos bottle on the driver side (didn't know what left you meant)? Yep, that could be expensive.
     
    #2 DanMan32, May 13, 2005
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    Yep,

    That would be the part. The lady at the repair facility speculated it was gold plated inside!
     
    #3 stanepstein, May 13, 2005
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    I do not know about gold plated, but considering that it is supposed to maintain the coolant reasonably hot for 3 days (for what ambient temp, I do not know), it would need insulation, vacuum, and silvering on the bottle, like they do with thermos bottles for coffee.
     
    #4 DanMan32, May 13, 2005
  5. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Question: If it's an expensive fix, why did they place it so close to the bumper? Wouldn't they put it closer to the firewall?
     
    #5 Tideland Prius, May 13, 2005
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    There's only so much room in there and things had to be wedged in where they'd fit. It's not a safety issue to put it near the bumper so that's where it went.

    One thing I did notice, I thought the HID would be a lot more... Sure it isn't just the lens they are replacing?
     
    #6 efusco, May 13, 2005
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    If they didn't put the coolant res. there, I'm sure there'd be something equally pricy in it's place.

    What's inexpensive to replace these days anyway?
     
    #7 gschoen, May 13, 2005
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    point taken
     
    #8 Tideland Prius, May 13, 2005
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