Another Walmart oil overfill, Toyota is hinting at new ICE

Robert Holt · Aug 31, 2014

PensacolaPrius said: ↑

UPDATE 08/30/2014

Ok I received my check in the mail today, took 4 days from the time Walmart received the invoice copy from the dealership. The Prius is running fine now and on the last 150 miles with A.C. on I'm getting an avg of 47.4 MPG according to the cars MPG display so that has increased.

To answer a couple of questions, yes I did pay the dealership before I received the check but not before Claims Mgt Inc had agreed to a settlement with me. The Settlement was just under $3700.00, the dealer bill was just over $3300.00 the difference was to cover a rental that I did not do but they paid it anyway and it will be donated to The American Red Cross.

The dealer cleaned the Throttle Body, MAF, installed a new HV battery and a new start button ( they could not tell me why this was needed but I believe it was the dealer just barking up the wrong tree with their diagnosis, it was $88 and I was not going to get sideways over it) and they lowered the oil level to half way on the dip stick.

All in all I think Walmart and their insurance company handled it well, although when I took our 2011 Prius in for an oil change just this past week and gave them implicit instructions to not use bulk oil, they did, I ask for a new air filter- they did not install one, but they did get the oil level right as I told them 3.25qt and that took it to the btm mark on the stick. I added oil the next day to get it to the 1/2 way mark. BTW when I spoke to the young lady that did the change on the 2011 I told her make sure only 3.25qt, she came back with but the book calls for 4.2qt. I told her I don't care just 3.2 but you better check your book because I bet it says 3.9 . Another female tech looked it up and their book dose say 3.9, that's just too much for the second gen anyway.

It was a difficult time mainly due to the dealer and not knowing if Walmart would do the right thing. Its done now, my Prius is doing fine and I'm satisfied with the end results.

I'm grateful for PriusChat, those who run it and all those whom contribute to make it such a great resource for Prius owners. For those that offered advice, thank you, for those who gained a little more insight to maintaining a Prius, great.
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You gave the excess payment to the American Red Cross?
Let me see if I can find Diogenes wandering around with his lamp and bring him by to visit you!

Good on you, mate!

PensacolaPrius · Aug 31, 2014

Robert Holt said: ↑

PensacolaPrius said: ↑

UPDATE 08/30/2014

You gave the excess payment to the American Red Cross?
Let me see if I can find Diogenes wandering around with his lamp and bring him by to visit you!

Good on you, mate!
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Not to get on my soap box BUT, I work in disaster areas for FEMA. When I arrive Red Cross is always already there, they help people nobody else will. If your house burns down they are there making sure you have a place to sleep. Floods, earthquakes, tornado's they are there offering water, food, clothing to those affected. When you've lost so much and don't know where to turn they are there setting up and maintain shelters, they are there to talk, they are there to help you find ways to get back on your feet and explain how other assistance programs work. They are there to support the first responders needs too. The best way I can put it is when things go really wrong Red Cross is there to help. Over 95% of Red Cross workers are volunteers, all I ever hear them say is "How Can I Help"
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Robert Holt · Aug 31, 2014

PensacolaPrius said: ↑

Robert Holt said: ↑

PensacolaPrius said: ↑

UPDATE 08/30/2014

You gave the excess payment to the American Red Cross?
Let me see if I can find Diogenes wandering around with his lamp and bring him by to visit you!

Good on you, mate!
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Not to get on my soap box BUT, I work in disaster areas for FEMA. When I arrive Red Cross is always already there, they help people nobody else will. If your house burns down they are there making sure you have a place to sleep. Floods, earthquakes, tornado's they are there offering water, food, clothing to those affected. When you've lost so much and don't know where to turn they are there setting up and maintain shelters, they are there to talk, they are there to help you find ways to get back on your feet and explain how other assistance programs work. They are there to support the first responders needs too. The best way I can put it is when things go really wrong Red Cross is there to help. Over 95% of Red Cross workers are volunteers, all I ever hear them say is "How Can I Help"
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Agree on the American and International Red Cross, mate!
On the international stage I also support Doctors Without Borders or Medicin Sans Frontier , which will go where no one else does--currently they are treating Ebola patients in Africa and if that's not deadly dangerous, I don't know what is. Brave folks, and they do what I should but do not, so I support them.

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