ABS ECU Malfunction-Dealer wants 3300.00 to replace??

I just get the impression you are not supportive of dealership labor costs. Saying it's "money well spent", just isn't like you

 

Then you misunderstand me.

I value and respect expertise very much, regardless of whether it comes from a dealership or not.
Getting under a car and opening a plug to change a fluid is not expertise, and I figure it is worth about 11 cents. In that case I revile the dealership for charging $50-150 and I tend to mock the people who pay it, particularly when they then whine. In a similar vein, I think salespeople are barely worth minimum wage -- if that. Inventors I highly admire.

 

great news so far, all the best!

 

Since this is a 2004 and not under warranty, you might want to be careful on how much time you "authorize" to diagnose the car. They work on a hourly basis.

 

Honestly, there is really nothing to work on with the Prius. Most repairs are quite minor. You'll be fine.

 

I hope you have let the service writer know that the problem occurred immediately after window tint film was installed and you are wondering whether some liquid may have spilled in the proximity of the skid control ECU below the dashboard.

Do I correctly recall that one or two of your older Prius have demonstrated drivability symptoms that you are not happy with, but have not yet been able to resolve?

 

Patrick,

Well, my 2006 has a weak hv battery but won't throw a code, the pump that goes on for 10 seconds to the thermos makes a tea pot whistling sound, and there's a ticking sound to the engine. My 2008 steering seems to feel a little tighter after the steering shaft recall. And my 2005 had a new transaxle. All 3 burn oil but no unresolved issues that I can't live with.

My 2015 just sits in the garage, I can't really stop driving the older cars.....strange.

 

Same here, my 2015 has logged around 300 miles since I bought it in March. The 2004 is my daily driver since my office parking is in the hot AZ summer sun. It now has logged 198K miles, I expect to be able to post to the 200K mile club string in a couple of months.

Your signature indicates you have two 2015s, so I take it that both are sitting around?

 

Well my regular hybrid 2015 has about 800 miles now since I bought it.

The plug in is a financial experiment that's going to backfire. I was able to get $6500 off on the car, as a lease and it came with carpool stickers. In addition, there's still an additional $1500 rebate through CA clean air board. With all this "equity" plus carpool stickers, I was going to have someone take over the lease after 3 months when the high demand carpool stickers run out and the plug in goes out of production........but of course, they approved another round of 15000 stickers after I leased.

So it looks like that car will become my wife's new car.

 

Did she ever reply to your email asking her if she's sure that will fix the problem?

 

Is it politically incorrect nowadays to say that you speculated ?

 

I still think this will work out to my advantage, just not as much as I speculated. The car still has less than 40 miles on it