Never been more depressed in my life… is anyone selling a Prius?

I'm really sorry to hear about the crash. Glad you made it!

That's a pretty traumatic experience all by itself. It really will get better, but it's going to take a while.

It is fairly ordinary for insurers to lowball their payouts. That's business for them. You can't take it personally. Understand that you don't have to accept their initial offer.

One of the trickiest things with older cars is that nobody else values yours as much as you do, by a wide margin, so there's no way to insure it for what you really think it is worth. Been there.

Hang in there and take it a day at a time!

 

I see a few primes on line but yeah, they’re expensive
Looking around myself as my engine is broken.
50 years of car ownership, I’ve never seen a market like this

 

They say the used car market supposed to fall apart here in a few months. I will try to avoid buying right now especially in Massachusetts and places like that cars get ate up there quick No way cars are worth what they're worth than other places.

 

I know, been reading about this’collapsing market’ for a while now

 

Who was at fault? If it was the other person, get a lawyer, sue him/her.
Get enough money to retore your Prius to the condition it was before.
Your insurance company may total your car, but that doesn't mean it can't be fixed.
If you don't want to repair it, the sue for a replacement, whatever the cost is.
There are cars out there, yes, WAY too expensive, but that's why you sue.

Now, it the wreck was your fault, well, sorry. You could buy the car from the insurance
company, and pay to have to repaired. If your finances allow for it. You could alway part it out
and recoup some of your loses toward another Prius.

 

What happened there?

 

I haven't heard anybody talking about the situation like that at all this I heard on the news with some so-called industry analyst and all this other kind of nonsense we will see but up until the other day No I thought this nonsense was going to go on until there's no more cars or whatever because if you look like on the Facebook marketplace and places like that now everything everybody selling has been wrecked bent engines blown and they want 2,000 plus dollars even if it doesn't start work or roll I mean these people are on serious drugs or something in my time growing up you couldn't hardly give away a car that wasn't running You didn't even advertise that nonsense because people would laugh you out of the building and now what's changed people are buying cars that don't run to do what make yard ornaments out of them watching too much of them reality TV shows.

 

I didn’t see the thread on that. Can you still drive in EV?

I bottomed out hard on bad roads during vacation and my car dumped its trans fluid on the driveway

Not sure about you but The last 3 years have been a hell of quarterly major car damage needing repairs .

 

It started running rough under load and has been getting progressively worse.
Less than 30k on the engine, all I can think is a clogged egr circuit.
My only theory is that the engine on the plug in runs for such short amounts of time, continually running just the warm up cycle

 

Ye

runs great on ev, still getting 12-14 miles around town.
I don’t go farther very often so I have been borrowing Mrs b’s hycam when necessary.
Trying to find her a new hycam and decide what I’m going to replace the pip with.
M3 is tempting at 20k after trade in and tax credits, but I keep wobbling back and forth.
I would like to test drive a new prime

 

Did the air bags go off? <Ok, air bags did activate, that could well make it a write-off.

What's your insurance; do you have collision/comprehensive?

Have you contacted the insurer to do an assesment?

What's the miles on it?

My 2 cents: it's possibly repairable, I'd guess around $5~7K USD. <Maybe, air bags might tip it to write-off status.

 

Hog Media! Hey, hang in there. I can tell you that life will sometime throw you a very hard curve ball. First off, your alive! So you will be able to move forward. Secondly, I agree with Dogman, you don't mention who is at fault? Thirdly, I would get to the yard where your car is at and empty it all asap! Most of us in here have had to live through the experience of being in an accident and having your car towed to the local tow yard.

You need to get your items out as the tow yards don't seem to care about personal items. As for a car. Unless you can get a settlement (from the insurance company or litigation), it may be worth it to you to get something that you can live with until you get fully on your feet.

So, not knowing a lot about your situation, I would:

Get you stuff out of the car
Focus on getting your comics published
Use your friends and or family to help you navigate moving forward to getting some type of transportation
Make it a goal to get another car in the near future that is either the same or better than what you lost.

I know you are in a dark place now. We all have been there. Just know you will not be in this mess forever. Personally, I would like to see you focus on getting the comics published. Because that my friend, will generate income and with income comes choices.

 

Dude, take a look at how others write their responses. It is extremely hard to read yours. Everything is one looooooooooonnnnnng sentence. No paragraphs. Rarely any periods.

When I do try to read your posts, you generally are posting good stuff, but it literally takes me 10 minutes to read your posts to figure out what you are saying.

Try breaking up the sentences, just like I have done in this response. This ain't a knock, just a friendly suggestion.

 

The new Prius Prime might be too fast for you! I am not kidding though, the car has so much power
and I still have it on Eco mode.

Now you got me worried about my 2012 Plug-in. My EV miles maxed out at 9 EV miles after charging
and probably add another 2-3 EV miles in real time driving.

Hopefully, your engine problem is a minor one!

 

He doesn't care...probably using voice instead of typing. I do voice on texting and you can say "period" at the end of a sentence.....I agree he knows some good stuff but most times I just can't understand what he's saying and my eyes cross when trying to read his posts....so I just don't!

 

He never responds to editorial comment either, at least not that I've seen. IIRC he did allude once that he's voice-dictating (no surprise). All I can think is he's got trouble typing, forming thoughts, doing anything other than voice-dictated stream-of-consciousness. I'd think if HE tried to read his own texts the light bulb would go on??

Anyway, I glaze over too, way too laborious to try to sift through his postings.

 

just looking at your pic, that looks moderately costly to repair, but it might not be as bad as you think. with that front end crash, you need to see how badly the engine was impacted. if damage extends only to radiator, and bumper, that's not too bad. also, if the chassis is not bent, you can salvage that. the airbags are costly but maybe you could get some from another totaled prius? If the engine has low miles and is good, i would keep the car, just for the engine; then consider getting another high mileage similar model and forklift the engine into that. also keep other good parts like water pump, battery, struts, suspension, computers, seats, traction battery. you could possibly get a low priced high-mileage same-model and just swap in all your old parts? Granted that would cost something, but you might be satisfied with the result. Also, since car prices are inflated now, dont let insurance low-ball you on a settlement. this is something I'm wondering about: if I (or rather my wife - - total my pre-2019-priced prius which was worth $7k, 3 years ago but $11k now, what will the insurance company do? I would fight them if I coudln't buy a similar replacement model for their payout amount.

 

Sorry about your unfortunate accident! Was that a 2011 Prius or later? The fleet manager who sold me the new Prius sent me a pic last May of a potential customer who totaled his Prius too.

The guy was supposed to trade it in for a new one. The residual value and payoff from his insurance should be a lot less than if he were to sell the car himself. Just bad luck!

I had the 2010 Prius with sunroof too and it was also in white. I sold it to my neighbor when the Prius plug-in came out in 2012.

 

I totally understand. It took 8 months for me to find a white pearl hud sunroof with all black inner trim. It was in prestine condition when i purchased it.

I’ll sell you mine, it does sub 60 MPGs with front and back dash cams. Asking $40,000, hopefully that doesn’t make you anymore depressed.