350, 000 miles and head gasket has finally let go

Top pic (red) is a Prius v, and the bottom pic (silver) Prius has the blown head gasket?

As to how you got to 350K miles: did you clean the EGR and intake along the way, and if so when and how often?

As to what to do, it's your call. I'm guessing you've done the EGR cleaning? Have floor jack, safety stands, torque wrench, menagerie of tools and so on??

Our 2010 is pretty much a dead ringer for yours, same rims, LED headlights. The fog lights in corner of grill are different; ours integrated into signal lights. They're useless fwiw, lol.

(I know we've talked before, but I've got a sieve for memory...)

 

Oil burner? Somebody will fix it so consider who makes the money after its repaired. The resale value difference here is significant enough to consider the repair assuming the battery, oil consumption and brake booster issues are good.

 

He just want to get a JDM engine and a shoe hornet into the Prius The car that's broke and avoid all the hours of messing with the open deck block assembly you have just swap it out You got good mileage out of it call it a day You're going to put one in there that's got like 65,000 mi on it or something like that so that car will be ready to go for another I don't know 10 years or so with the other things when they need to get done brakes battery etc but it's a great setup and like you say if somebody gets in the card pees on the floorboard it's not a big deal like in your brand new Corolla you'll be noticing every smell every time somebody gets out of the car screw that use the old car for that kind of stuff it just makes good sense if you're one to worry about your newer car cost damages all of that some people look at vehicles differently than others but yes that's what I would do fix the Prius run the ever living h a l e out of it and use it to make your money or whatever still decent looking car so you should be good.

 

For data keepers, what was your oil change intervals?

 

Inspection of intake manifold will likely reveal solidly carbon-blocked EGR passages; if it hasn’t been revisited in over 200k miles.

They typically clog in sequence starting with cylinder one (right end). Perhaps “good flow numbers” are overrated, in particular with the uneven clog pattern of the intake: exhaust gasses still managing to trickle through on cylinders four and three, with one and two getting nothing.

 

New Corolla hybrid, my current recommendation for someone who wants an affordable Toyota hybrid

Clogged egr and no oil burning made 350,000 miles? I like your thinking!

 

Looks for all the world like a North American Prius v. Because it is?? And of course not available here?

 

It is available here

 

Clean the intake and EGR when you've got a chance.

 

Here a Toyota dealer charges by book hours where independent shops may or may not charge by the book. In fact, most dealer mechanics are paid by a fixed job price based on the book. As a result, dealer mechanics are incentivized to get the work done quickly so that they can get more jobs in per day. A typical dealer head gasket job may be $3500.

For a customer the better prices are always independent shops when the shop knows what they're doing based on past experience. They know how long it has taken in the past, often want to beat a competition price and charge accordingly. An experienced independent may charge anywhere from $1500 to the dealer's price.