Interesting video on how an unsuspecting buyer got taken on a used Gen 2 Prius

tl;dw

 

Agreed, why not just post a sentence or two or a time stamp so we can get the point without wasting time!

 

did they come here after the purchase?

 

Not sure I understand how he got taken. I didn't realize that he had just bought the car I thought he just drove it into the shop with the red triangle on and all the nonsense. But yeah when these kind of folks do videos there long drawn out nothing that they don't speak English well and all that sort of thing so it's like pulling teeth to get it out

 

Funny that he states the P0A80 is Hybrid Battery Over-temperature.....I stopped watching after that...

 

You must have mistaken me for someone else. I make plenty of mistakes and own up to them. If you just spitting stuff out because you have nothing better to say, than so be it.

For a video that's trying to show that a purchaser got suckered into buying a car, I would like to think the person making the video would be knowledgeable about 'said car'. With that being said, anyone 'knowledgeable' enough about a Gen 2 Prius to be making videos should EASILY know what a P0A80 code is. I only have so much time in my life, and to get something that basic incorrect in the first few minutes of an 18 minute video, well, it tells me to move on to something else.

 

"More and more I see on this Prius, more and more I am afraid that this owner got scammed"

Think about a used car buyer who takes out an $8,000 loan to buy a high mile hybrid. He has heard about Toyota reliability and their ability to go 300,000 to 400,000 miles. Certainly he heard that from the flipper who revived the Prius. Maybe the buyer had a 2002 Camry that did go 275k without oil burning, head gasket or tranny failures. No need for an inspection.

Petr's videos are accessible by the average used car buyer and are 95% more likely to warn a buyer than Priuschat. Here you are likely to get fanboy responses when someone asks if they should buy a 2008 with 176,000 miles. Petr's video would make them consider a pre-purchase mechanic's inspection.

As is, the buyer here has an overpriced oil burner that needs a rebuild. He will need a battery soon. At least he did not buy a 2010.

 

Not much happens till partway through 2014, with piston ring revision; why focus on 2010? In 2012 Somewhere along the line I think the EGR valve and intake manifold was tweaked as well, but...

Ok, maybe you meant to say 3rd gen?

 

After all isn't the nature of being a good auto mechanic simply making way less mistakes than you used to when you were younger?

What I've noticed over several decades is people are so uninformed about how their car works that if a mechanic screws up and they aren't wanting to fess up to it, they're almost never in a position where they have to admit their wrong doing. And we've all seen on PriusChat many times mechanics will make up the most ridiculous reasons to explain away their own incompetence, especially among Toyota Stealerships who double team you with both incompetence and price gouging at the same time.

 

There was this one time….at band camp….