Battery Failure Advice?

HV Battery replacement by itself costs about $3000-4000 including parts and labor at a Toyota dealer; there are less expensive alternatives, such as re-balancing and/or replacing individual battery modules. It sounds like there are other repairs besides the HV battery in your Prius. A Prius can go more than 250K miles, easily with proper maintenance. It's up to you to decide whether you should just buy a new car. If you can drive it, make a trip the San Francisco or Indianapolis and pay a visit to the Luscious Garage (SF) or Autobeyours (Ind) for a second opinion and less expensive repairs with peace of mind thrown in.

 

What are the 15 codes? How long have you owned the car?

You don't want to invest $5000 to fix 5 codes and leave 10 codes that can cost you $5000 more. You need the full picture of how much it would cost to fix all the issues.

 

Firstly, test the 12 volt battery. When you get codes from all over the car, it. May be that the computers are not getting power, and all the codes are bogus.

If your 12 volt battery is good, how mechanical are you? Will.replaceing the battery with a $900 battery off ebay be in your skillset?

 

Find out the codes and share them here.

I sell and install hybrid batteries in high mileage Prius, so my bias is that, yes, it is worth it.

Do you have an independent mechanic who you trust?

I'd be happy to send a refurbished pack to you and have a local mechanic install it. Pack costs less than $1,900 and has a 3 year warranty.

Call me and time and we can talk about your situation.

 

Katie, I see that you are from nashville, Me too! Anyway, I found a company out of Memphis that rebuild and restores hybrid batterys. They sale the battery for 800 bucks! And within a 3 hour radius of Memphis they will install it for free, in your case it might be a little over 3 hours. So you may have to pay a fee.
They are called Hybrid Restoration. Please don't spend 5000$ on a battery.
This battery isn't new, and won't be good as a new one but it will sure be very close. All their batterys under go lots of testing

 

Hybrid Restoration of Memphis | Hybrid Battery Specialists

 

2004 2009 Toyota Prius Reconditioned Hybrid Battery with Computer Road Tested | eBay . The eBay listing as well

 

Please note that they only warranty their work for 12 months.

 

Who gives a damn for 800 bucks! Lol

 

katie, did you get a new car yet?

 

18 months

 

Also test the connections to the battery.
And if it is over 3 years old or the age is unknown, replace it.
It is a good $200 gamble......when measured against the $4000 alternative.

 

I have a HVbattery repair and replacement shop in Huntsville Alabama huntsvillehybrid.com. I install remanufactured batteries from Dorman or replace a single cell in you're Prius battery. Installation of a Dorman or any replacement battery of your choice for $350.00 or I can replace a cell in your Prius battery for $650.00. I work on Gen l and Gen ll Prius or Camry.

 

Try one of our grid chargers for under $400 to rebalance your existing pack and keep it running. Odds are that is all you need. With deep cycling, years can be added to the battery's life if the process is started early enough. If after cycling specific modules are found to be bad, replace the individual modules and rebalance.

Or if you don't want to deal with the do-it-yourself process, just buy a replacement pack from ericbecky. He is a trusted vendor and will take good care of you.

Here is a recent example of what our product did on a 2005 Prius:

 

^ These work. My 2005 Prius threw up the red triangle of death (along with every other light on the panel), and the dealer wanted $3,500 to replace the HV battery. The Hybrid Automotive grid charger cost less than $450 and, with around two hours of trouble-free installation, has fixed the battery and removed all the warning lights. I know it's not a permanent fix, but it gives me time to raise the $1,400 I'll need for a new battery to install.

 

I have a question if you can help me with that would be great. Does toyota make the hybrid battery for 2007 anymore? I'm confused as some have told me they do (dealer of course) and others say no that they can recondition your own or put in a Re-manufactured one. Can you give me the real truth?

 

The dealer has and or can get a battery for any Prius back to 2001, this will be the most expensive solution. There are also reconditioned batteries and used batteries, which will be cheaper. (and may last less long) If your 2007 car blew an engine, would you buy a new one, get a rebuilt one, or get one from a junkyard?

 

if you decide not to buy a new one, be very careful, there are a lot of scammers out there.

 

There is a guy in DC. Who will come to your house and for 1750 will replace hybrid battery (Priushybridrepair). Has whole family in Prius '. Veteran and has a shop. He says that Toyota doe not make new hybrid batteries anymore. They are all remanufactured. Seems to be very honest and open. Been doing this for a few years. Thoughts? His name is jack