Red triangle of death and check engine light at 172k miles

Car is still good condition. $1k to $2k can't buy you anything better

 

You're just broke in should go easy 300K usually . Rust n body damages more issue than mileage n parts needs. But that's in a place wer emissions and BS aren't an issue. You have to weigh in added shiet like that .to get Your full picture

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Get yourself one of these: Hybrid battery diagnostic and repair tool for Toyota and Lexus
That way you can use Dr. Prius app to monitor hybrid system health and check and clear error codes...
It's way less hassle having one of these in your glove box rather than depending on an expensive mechanic house call or tow truck.

 

a good move i think, you've already covered most of the expensive bases. all the best!

 

That's a personal preference for the kind of work you do a lot of these things some of these autex and snap on etc. If you look online you can get bootlegged copies of tech stream that will run on windows. So you'll need an old Windows laptop 7 is okay. This device that goes between the laptop and the cable that plugs to the car about 70 bucks or so and then the cable that plugs to the car you need to get a good one that meets the JIS standard the one posted on here somewhere they're talking 80 bucks but it's pretty much guaranteed to work and not give a bunch of problems so you'll have about 200 bucks in the whole mess I have a Panasonic laptop with Windows 7 with text stream built in it from the dealer with the dealer code I paid like $400 for it from the dealer that went out of business and it's good to 2021 with all updates and everything on the machine I don't need to download them I thought it was a decent deal if I'm going to fool with these silly cars

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