Serpentine "Belt" Recommendation Replacement

Just get the OEM from the dealer, they're only like $20.

Serpentine Belt – Part Number: 9091602570 MSRP $19.99.

Shop around. You might find a discounted price or a voucher you can use.

 

Gates makes some of the best rubber products around . Period . I think the belt on my '09 is the original and it's now coming up on 308,000 mi many things have been replaced but that water pump and that belt are still original and there are barely any hairline cracks on the belt that you would normally see at 5 years back in the day That's not a testament to the Toyota belt being Superior is just that that belt is not under any kind of load It spends a water pump when a clutch allows it to other than that it's just freewheeling it's not driving anything serious like an air conditioning compressor nothing. So it is a very low stress component other than that it's going around and around some pulleys. So not something I would worry about as far as I'm concerned it can break like it does on a regular ice engine then of course you just replace it like you do any other car The thing is is it'll take a long time for these to break generally from what I understand everybody is ready for my water pump to be replaced it 90 100 110,000 here I'm sitting at three I do believe this is all original this car The people that own this car didn't even like to put gas in it let alone put tires on it or do any maintenance but this is just my car your vehicle and situation and area may be completely different generally the broken belt results will be similar or the same.

 

I just found one of these little old lady cars like you got it LKQ with 94,000 mi tap lightly in the back end. I bought the ABS pump actuator and all the other little bits and took the hole interior out of the car because it was 10 times nicer than mine I put most of it back into my '09 which was just a commuter car for four people to go to a big factory every day and sit out in the sun and bake all day never anything eventful happened with this car The one I drive. I've replaced the ABS pump once seems to be working fine You can do the same there was a rebuilder in Florida now he's vanished or he was maybe not legit I bought two pumps off of them One is installed working and one I sold to a buddy here.

 

If you plan on doing your ABS actuator assembly at some point, make sure you have a capable scantool that can do the complete bleed procedure and the "solenoid offset relearn".

Choices are; some flavor of TechStream (legit or pirated), a "high end" aftermarket scantool, or the ThinkDiag app and device from ThinkCar.

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The Prius are amazing cars and maintenance is VERY user-friendly for the DIYers. I agree with Mr_Guy...you'll need a high-end scan tool with that ABS system.

The serpentine belts are in the category of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" because you can inspect them easily and just replace when you see dry rot or cracking or it getting super-shiny on the outside of them. I do replace my radiator caps every 10-years in all of my vehicles...haven't seen a one, even Toyota, that looks trustworthy after being in there for that amount of time! (Rusty spring and the inner-rubber is usually almost always pretty ate-up.)

 

Show me where it says use an AC DELCO belt
on this car So I can avoid that site.

Use only Toyota parts on this car. Buy them online I like Olathe Toyota Parts online they do a good job.

At 66k mikes you are aware how hard that low mileage is on the hybrid battery right? A long lasting hybrid battery is one that is driven everyday. You might want to think about pulling the hybrid battery out and addressing the interconnect corrosion on the wires as it may have extensive corrosion.
There are thousands of battery posts start reading.

 

What battery the 12 volt?.

 

Just remember a 2007 or 9 car with an original hybrid battery in it that hybrid battery is old. Unless it's been replaced I thought you had the car through the 60,000 mi so you would know this I generally it's 60,000 mi I wouldn't expect that the car had the hybrid battery replaced personally a regular person would never go for that they would be like that's impossible this car has no miles on it It's not even broken yet a Toyota is not broken in till it has 100,000 mi on it in my world anyway that's still a brand new car per se.

 

I would imagine bando is probably a supplier to Toyota and most other manufacturers they make belts for some of my Italian scooters. Just depends on who they want to buy from at any given time I'm partial to Gates belts personally but that's a personal problem. I've used daco as dayco make some belts for some of my products that I can't get from other manufacturers. Point blank they just don't make them they're generally CVT drive belt.

 

That's very cool Rick. Yup the original hybrid battery failed from sitting.

Next keep an eye on the engine oil use high quality oil and the oem oil filter and check the oil level once a week before starting the car and top it off even if its a tiny bit low and that car will go 300,000 miles easy. Engine takes 4 quarts of oil with a new filter.

Drive the shit out of it the hybrid battery needs to be driven every single day. Those are the ones that last the longest.

 

Ok your good for 500,000 miles lol! Excellent!

Replace the inverter coolant. Its extremely easy.

Replace the trans fluid. Only have to do that once to get the original fluid out that has all the initial wear in it. Trans is pretty much good for life after that.

Replace the engine coolant. This one is very easy. Go buy 2 gallons of Toyota LLC coolant. There's a dump bolt on the bottom of the rad on drivers side. Open valve dump the rad close the valve fill it back up. No air lock drama. . Do that again in a few months. That makes an excellent impact on improving the coolant health without invoking the dreaded airlock which with this car's CHRS bottle is a super big pain. Dont dump the engine block coolant don't go there.

The G2 has a huge windshield cross section. Go on weathertech.com buy there insulated window shield worth it. That shield will last 20 years. keep the cabin as cool as you can if the car lives outside. Heat is the main stressor for battery's especially the hybrid battery.
I also built a insulated shield that sat on the back package pull out protector. Kept the sun from beating on the rear package area/hybrid battery area. Looks like you have a good tint that will help.

At 66k miles your approaching end of life for the little inverter coolant pump. They last about that long sometimes longer sometimes shorter depending on the quality of coolant. Buy a coolant pump from Olathe Toyota parts online so you have one in stock. Do not put a parts store pump in the car they are not Toyota quality.

And my favorite is a Wheelskin leather steering wheel cover. The steering wheel on a g2 is very rough. A new high quality leather wheel makes it feel like a new car. Those last 20 years also maybe more..

All of these replacements details on how to do it best can be found by searching old posts using the search forum link on top of this page.

Here's inverter coolant pump posts for instance:

https://priuschat.com/search/445630160/?q=inverter+coolant+pump&t=post&o=relevance