Prius C $4627.25 repair estimate

i would call corporate, and talk the situation over. they might offer financial help.

no idea why the parts would go so early, or even if the dealer has diagnosed correctly. although, there have been enough actuator problems on the lift back to effect an extended warranty.

all the best!

 

Sorry to hear of your problems. I note that the 12 volt battery was trickle charged and that the dealership pronounced it o.k. Considering that you drove the vehicle home and parked it with no sign of anything wrong I might be tempted to try replacing the 12 volt battery first. If it is the original, it is 5 years old and getting long in the tooth. Good luck with getting back on the road again.

 

The term you need is Second Opinion. Get one.

I suspect the 12 battery but I am way over here and you are way over there. (I used to live in Elko NV and shop in SLC UT)

If the brakes are really borked:

$1050 Pump Assembly - Toyota (47070-52020)

$1670 Master Cylinder Assembly - Toyota (47050-52020)

Now you just need a Brake technician who can replace them for less than $1900 labor.

 

I would replace the 12v battery before doing anything else. If it is stock, it's time is up. Then see about the rest. Very strange things happen with bad batteries.

 

I totally agree with this. The car is completely dependent on the 12V battery when it's turned off, and when you turn it on the car's computers do a diagnostic check before the main battery is connected. So a low 12V battery can lead to strange sensor readings which then get logged as problems.

Get the battery replaced and the codes cleared and take it from there, would be my advice.

 

+1.

You need a new 12V battery (your first new one?) and a second opinion.
There might be a hybrid specialist or just a good brake tech in your area that can put the used parts on your car if necessary.

In my never to be humbled opinion, this whole diagnosis smells fishy......like some service department employee wants a new fishing boat, fishy. The fact that the dealership tried to yoke you into a quick dump on a new car sale despite the fact that you have been a loyal service department customer is beyond revolting.

Unfortunately.....this isn't the first $4,500 brake repair estimate I've seem on a fairly new Prius in this forum.

Good Luck!
Let us know what happens!

 

This.
It would be a good $200 gamble.
Shops are known to "miss" bad 12 V batteries on a regular basis.

 

Gross incompetence or attempted theft.......



.......just a theory.

 

Before we get too far gone, I would fill the tank, replace the 12 volt battery, and leave it in Ready over night if you have a garage. Changing the battery will reset the codes. If they never reappear, great! If they do, then it is a real issue. Best of luck

 

congrats, well done!

 

Let us know what the final bill is.

I'm thinking that somebody shamed this dealer into covering their as......er......doing the right thing.

Either that or somebody in the head-shed is reading this forum.



Veeeery long shot, and.....yet.......it could happen, and by that I mean the dealer doing the right thing part.

 

It would be very very interesting (to me) if you could talk them into first installing only a new, fully charged, 12 V battery, and then reset the codes and perhaps do a few more restarts and resets.

But most likely they would refuse to do that, because there might be a remote chance that that would fix the problem, and then they would look foolish for pressing you for a four thousand dollar repair.

 

I would not recommend this.

 

I would still replace the battery and see if it fixed it. This way I would know if I could even trust the dealer. There is a good chance they wanted you to trade your car in and it could easily be fixed. Sounds like your car could use a new battery anyways.

 

Just given the cost they are asking you to absorb, I have to agree with everyone.
Call Toyota, Get second opinions.
Assuming this was bought new? Not a salvage or branded title vehicle?
If so, IMO being less than 5 model years old, with less than 90,000 miles on it, that seems like a huge cost for parts and repair. At the very least, you'd think Toyota might be supportive of the reality of premature failure of the components.
But I'd want second opinions.
Maybe 3rd opinions.

Sometimes I think codes and car self diagnostics are great, but I don't always trust immediately that they are revealing the reality of the situation.
And in your case? If that is the cost associated with that failure, I hope not.

Good Luck.

PS.
If it turns out Toyota can't or won't help, and it turns out those parts and that cost is simply the reality?
Then I think I'd easily go with the salvage yard parts.
Not a lot stories about these particular parts going bad. I'd at least take the low cost gamble that you could install salvaged parts and get perhaps many, many years of reliability.
At the cost they are quoting for new, and labor? Even if you only got a year or so out of the salvaged it would be worth it.

 

I thought the battery was a couple of thousand dollars....is it really just $200?