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found this used PIP, can you give your recommendation, please?

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  1. Peeto

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    Hi guys,

    I found this used PIP in neighbour country. Its like only one close to my country. What do you think, please? Is mileage really bad for this one?

    http://www.tipcar.cz/inzerat/toyota-prius-18-plug-in-hybrid-na-dobijeni-cz-100112804.html

    price 16000 EUR, mileage 153.000km ! Color, accessory, I like very much, its pretty all I would like to have and even more. But those km looks too much for me. What do you think?
    thanks s lot
     
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    Relax...153 km is only 96000 miles. Looks like a beauty. Just guessing you might pick that up here as low as $US14000

    We have no big failures reported on any PiPs so far and some are getting in to that miles range or higher,
     
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    thanks and wow if its 14k USD I will buy now, but for 15k USD here are only with accident. Also somebody elso, who think 96k miles is still ok for using another 5 years/7k miles per year/ ? I know, that nobody nearly know, what PIP will do with 200k miles and so on
     
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    it's the same as a regular prius, it looks great to me as well. we have some peeps with over 100k miles and looking to go a long time. all the best.(y)

    how do you go about check maintenance history and accidents?
     
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    thanks guys :) I really hoped, that you will tell me something against it :) Btw, what is the consumption of charging with 220V ? how much kW it drains? Reason I am asking is, that my FV panels can mostly generate 2.5kW per hour and I am not sure, if it is enough for chargin PIP.
     
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    I overlooked your question. I have friend working in Toyota, he can check WIN if there were regular services and connect car to pc for some basic check.
     
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    i think it's around 3.8 kWh in 90 minutes or less, from empty.
     
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    ok, that is app 2.5kW per hour, its all right than. if it will be cloudy, I will share the price of charge with my pocket :)
     
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    how much is electricity?
     
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    0.12eur per kW here...
     
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    not bad, a bit more than half of my 24 cents / kWh.

    a lot cheaper than petrol, no?
     
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    And in us??
    wow that is quite high! Where it is?
     
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    Petrol here is 1.25 Eur per liter. Its quite same as electricity if recalculated
     
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    electricity is all over the place in the u.s., i'm in boston, but even other parts of massachusetts are quite a bit cheaper. it depends on your supplier, i think ours is a french company.
     
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    Thinking about accidents and maintenance history: ours took a good hit, and if you were to look up it's service history, you'd see nothing, I've done all the routine maintenance myself. And yet, the car is completely pampered, like-new condition, very frequent fluid changes, including transaxle fluid, brakes regularly maintained, you name it.

    What I'm saying: just looking at a car's service history can be misleading. And dealership service can be a joke. Or not. You really want to have a good, in-person look over this car, and have it looked at by an independent/honest/competent mechanic.
     
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    your calculation doesn't sound right. maybe i'm lost in conversion.

    1 litre = 12.5 miles = 1.25 eur

    1 kwh = 2.75 miles = .12 eur. 12.5 miles = <.60 eur?
     
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    well, I never recalculated it, as i have solar power. but lets do it quickly and roughly: 1 charge = 20km, 4kW needed = 0.48EUR for 20km. That is 60x0.48EUR = 28.8 EUR for my regular 1200km full tank. And with petrol it is 55 EUR. So even If I pay fully for electricity for charging, its almost half the price with EV. not bad
     
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    yes, thanks. that is what I did with my current prius. I asked on of the best service guy of toyota here to checked it out first, once he approved it, i buy it :)
     
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    that's how it was when i bought my pip in 2012. electricity was 16 cents, and gas was $4./gallon. how quickly things changed.
     
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    its not worth in US to buy lets say 3kW fotovoltaic plants to your house? In Slovakia it was total non-sense, till we get green support from EU and they give you back 50% of the price. Back to topic, although I like that white PIP so much, I would prefer something with app 50k miles on it to be sure for another 100k ahead for me :)
     
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