2010 Prius Maintenance Schedule (US)

Here is a good summary of the scheduled maintenance for the Gen3 Prius up to 120,000 miles.

Oil changes and new filter every 10,000 miles
Replace the air filter every 30,000 miles
Replace engine/inverter coolant at 100,000 miles
Replace sparkplugs at 120,000 miles

Most of the other items you can inspect yourself. If your dealer wants to charge you for anything more than those 4 items they are ripping you off.

 

Thanks Mendel, I was eventually going to do that myself so you saved me some work

Extra thanks for the .xls format so we can easily add our own items like transmission fluid changes

 

Kudos!

 

Nice to have this on-line, thanks!

 

Looks great; I have one grammatical observation. "Inspect brakes..." is footnoted as (3), so where are footnotes 1 & 2?

 

I don't see anything about when to 'change' transaxle fluid.

 

10-4...thanks for the spreadsheet.

 

It will appear on your copy when you put it there. Looks like Mendel has given us a spreadsheet of the maintenance Toyota calls for. We are free to modify our personal copies as we see fit.

 

This may seem like a stupid question but does the brake fluid ever need to be changed? I've got about 40K on mine and just brought it in to NTB for an inspection and they told me about the cabin air filter and also said that I should have something done with my brake fluid. I'm pretty sure they said it needed to be flushed. There was also some other fluid they were going to change or flush. Looking at the maintenance spreadsheet (Thank you!) this just looks completely wrong.

 

They are following the schedule for maintaining their bank account (at the expense of yours).

The brake fluid is not on the schedule. No doubt it needs changing eventually, but probably not for years, and certainly not on your 2010. We don't use our friction brakes anything like non-hybrids do.

Most normal cars say 3 year/36000 miles or something like that. I'm approaching 2 years with 27000 and the stuff looks like new.

Leave the reservoir closed as contact with air speeds the demise of the fluid.

 

My 2010 Prius goes in tomorrow for a 35,000 mile check- the dealer has 3 options that range from 39.00 to 108.00. The higher priced options involve some additives to the gas and oil- at least I think that is what he told me- Has anyone else had experience with this type of service options? In looking at the spreadsheet I am planning to go with the 39.00 service unless someone more knowledgeable than I can tell me the benefits of additives?????

I am grateful for any advice as I am not car savvy except for what I have learned here. Thanks.

 

I know your post is two months old but those additives are complete crap. I know in some cars the manual even says not to use any. I'm not sure if the Prius says that or not. If oil additives were worth a damn the toyota oil you may be using would already have them. Dito on the gas.

Thanks to OP for the chart. As usual with cars these days this one basically needs very little attention--sticking with the manual and ignoring all the complete nonsense/fraud-rubbish that dealerships push. I know there are people out there still happily paying hundreds of dollars on 30k and 60k intervals, a huge money maker for dealerships and buys the owner absolutely jack squat!

 

Yep, they dumb it down so that anybody capable of turning a page can very plainly see what they need but of course at the same time it requires many more pages and if your brain is working at the level of a chimp or higher you are probably ok with the matrix approach I prefer the matrix!