High mileage Prius?

[rallycross]

Anyone got any experience of running a Prius well past 100k miles?
Anyone had battery problems with an older hybrid?

[Greg_D]

Taxi drivers use them all the time - that tells you everything you need to know really - apparently they are super reliable up to starship mileage

No bother

[Krikkit]

Most of the 2nd-hand ones I can see are 100-150k miles, none of which report battery problems. There's one on AT at 246k miles sold needing a battery replacement, presumably been a cab as it was 2005.

[mcflurry]

AFAIK Toyota have an 8 year warranty on the Hybrid bit of the car, with 5 years / 100,000 on the rest.

IMHO I can't see them offering that if they weren't reasonably confident in the system

[V8forweekends]

Couple of Septics here with battery problems -

http://priuschat.com/threads/need-to-replace-main-...

NB I am not anti-hybrid, Toyota or Prius.

[McWigglebum4th]

A little task

Find all the companies offering a battery replacement service for the hugely unreliable prius main traction battery



Now do a similar task

Find all the companies offering a turbo replacement service for the completely reliable VAG turbo diesel
Find all the companies offering a DPF replacement service for the completely reliable VAG turbo diesel




Draw you own conclusions from your results

[Save Ferris]

I've been with Toyota for almost 10 years now and have yet to see a hybrid needing a new battery.

I'm sure it does happen, but it's rare.

[KTF]

mcflurry said:

AFAIK Toyota have an 8 year warranty on the Hybrid bit of the car, with 5 years / 100,000 on the rest.

IMHO I can't see them offering that if they weren't reasonably confident in the system

Only on the 2003 - 2009 cars: http://www.toyota.co.uk/insurance-and-warranty/toy...

Model Year 2003
Hybrid-related warranty components including hybrid vehicle battery, battery control module, hybrid control module, inverter with converter and hybrid vehicle transaxle for 8 years or 100,000 miles.

Model Year 2009
Hybrid-related warranty components including hybrid vehicle battery, battery control module, hybrid control module and inverter with converter for 5 years or 60,000 miles.

Prius and Auris Hybrid vehicles registered from 1st June 2010
Hybrid Synergy Drive System (HSD System) 5 years or 100,000 miles - whichever comes first, with no mileage limitation for the first year.

Only the battery is 8 years on all:

HSD battery
8 years or 100,000 miles - whichever comes first with no mileage limitation for the first year.

[rallycross]

thanks for replies as I thought really, will give one a go they are getting quite cheap now.