Weak aux battery and purchase decision

I'd say demand is poor for hybrids and EV vehicles at the moment. No one is buying them unless they are a good deal.

I say it is a buyer's market and it will continue to be so long a gas is priced low. The lower gas gets, the lower these hybrids will go. You as the buyer will have many cars to choose from.

This why you can find 2015 Brand new prius' for $18,xxx from the dealer.

Btw, you can buy an optima battery (yellow) for about $150 and install the batter yourself.

The seller is dumb for not paying the $300. He is going to have a hard time selling after you decline and you will see the seller edit is ad and lowering his price by more than $300 is about 2 weeks.

Also, 2014 with such high mileage screems taxi/Uber/lyft, abused cars.




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welcome! aux battery is nothing, they might even be wrong. i would buy it. all the best!

 

Unless you are in a hurry, I would keep looking. Both of those cars are high mileage vehicles. Either driven commercially or part of a fleet. Either way if you look around you should be able to find something comparable with less mileage.

Best of luck to you and "Welcome to Prius Chat"

 

well, they could be over 2 years old, so possibly a little high, but strange that they are from different sellers.

 

The aux battery can be charged up, it's only a couple years old

 

Batteries go -- and the Prius has a very small 12v battery. I would not make a determination on the car based on the battery. We forgot the dome light being on in our 2011 a couple of weeks ago - overnight -- completely dead. The car has 130k on it .... we jumped it and all was fine. Figuring the 4 year old battery was toast, I priced out a new one -- using a discount code you can get one from Pep Boys for under $150.00. The optima was well over $200.00 FYI. It's an odd size so overpriced.

If the price is adjusted correctly nothing wrong with 47k -- I'm trying to think what they could have done to a Prius in 47k. It's not a Porsche. Who is selling it?

 

My Prius is a 2012 IV Prius and I drive 25k miles a year, so 47k miles is still pretty good on the low side if you're just using it to commute. I use mine as a work horse car and recently I just replaced my car battery after leaving the dome light on. I tried to recharge the battery but those aux battery only last 3-4 years at best. My Aux battery cost 192.96$ including tax. So him saying 300$ might be the OEM battery, but after market battery works the same. Good luck on your purchase, I get 556 miles for a full tank of gas, which cost 23$ or so at 2.51$ per gallon.

 

If you want to drop somewhere around $40~50, there are consumer level testers you can hook up directly to the battery posts, see where you stand. Google Solar BA5 for example.