Refurbished w/12 month, or New HV battery w/better warranty?

GreenApp · Aug 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM

jeff_the_computer_guy said: ↑

Really good point. In my area, $1600 for new battery, refurb is about $8-900 "installed taking your core".

A refurb original battery (first fail) is probably 2-6 bad cells and 22-26 tired cells that can be reconditioned. Using something like tmr-jwap's setup / 2 (4 chargers instead of 7), you're talking about $1000 in one-time costs plus call it $100 in replacement cells. 2 hands-off cycles a day and labor leads me to a reasonable "tired" battery replacement of about $500 makes sense to me, but some of the shippable replacement batteries (no labor) are already above the Toyota price.

So at $500 for remanufactured (tired old) I might do it with someone in business for 5 years and a 1 year 100% warranty. More than that and the new, balanced, matched Toyota battery seems a lot smarter - unless I can't afford $1600 (plus temporary $1500 core charge) and I need a working car now.
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$1600 for a NEW battery is a crazy good deal. I was quoted $3400 w/ a $1500 core charge! (obviously lunacy)

bisco · Aug 28, 2024 at 1:54 PM

well, that was over a year ago...

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