Repair or Sell? Seeking advice

What do you mean when you say: "Hybrid Battery getting lower.." ?

What is lower?

 

I'd do the repairs and keep it

 

Cat changed 6k miles ago… is the engine an oil burner?

What does the body, paint and interior look like?

 

i would do the minimum necessary to sell it, if you can find a non hybrid you can afford.

 

Unless it is actually setting a code, your drive battery is likely good for another 100k miles.



Another question for you, why do you think your EGR needs to be cleaned?

Have you or your mechanic seen any indication that the EGR is clogged?

 

Also why do you think the brake booster is failing? What does "suspension shot" mean? What do you mean by full brake replacement?

To answer your question much more details are needed. As far as a financial decision you'd also need to include details about how much you drive, how much you might spend on a new car, mpg of said car, how do you use your car, etc. I'm not saying you have to answer those here, but you need to factor them in.

With a head gasket already having been done it's definitely in contention for being a keeper especially if you have DIY ability.

My HV battery was rated 50% by Dr. Prius 6 years ago. Pure conjecture by me, but I'd think there's more cars making it to 250k+ with the original HV battery than with the original brake booster system or head gasket.

 

You need 5 posts before you are realtime around here. Plus if you use iOS you need to refresh at least once everytime you do anything including looking for alerts, edits or recent activity. Otherwise the system here does not update even after hours.

 

With our two Prii, we have gone through multiple brake boosters that is not a big deal.

 

I would take this as an answer:

 

New EGR cooler at 130k though. In my limited experience the EGR valve itself doesn't typically get clogged. It might be worth checking the EGR runners on the intake, but it's still worth asking "why?". There's a decent chance they were cleaned when doing the head gasket.

 

Cold start shakes are only associated with the EGR in that people think that the clogged EGR is the cause of the blown head gasket, which is the cause of the shakes. There's other scenarios that cause the cold start shakes as well. I personally wouldn't put too much stake in that diagnosis. What about the other stuff?

 

couldn't clogged intake manifold ports cause the shakes?

 

I suspect the shakes are near-invariably due to some sorta liquid in the combustion chamber, either drawn in through the PCV and/or EGR feeds, or coolant getting past the head gasket. The former seemed to be a consequence of just running the engine a few seconds, the day previous.