Hi Everyone, I just bought a 2007 touring edition last Sunday. I'm very happy with it. I helped my mother buy a brand new '07 eleven years ago when she was 80 years old. She hoped it would be her "lifetime" car and I think it will be. She just turned 91 and she and the car are still going strong, though she rarely takes it out now. I try to drive it occassionally. It just turned 73,000 miles I was hoping to inherit that car someday, but there's no way she's giving it up, so I bought my own! Mine has 132,000 miles on it, but it is in really great shape. I took it to the local Toyota dealer and they gave it their 21 point check and didn't recommend doing anything. I did change the air filter and cabin filter myself, and had them change the transmission fluid. The only issue I see is the coolant transfer pump is loud and I'm thinking it may need replaced, but it's not showing an engine trouble light. Does anyone know what kind of charge to expect from the dealer to replace the pump? I'm not much of a DIYer, but I'm retiring in May and hope to learn more about maintaining the car myself. We've been having pretty cold weather in SW Ohio. I averaged 41 MPG this week commuting to work. It's a very short, hilly drive. The car never really gets warmed up. Yesterday it warmed up to 45 degrees and I took it for a 40 mile trip around town with some interstate driving and I averaged 50.8 MPG. Very happy about that!
Welcome to the fold! Any decent shop with even modest experience with modern cars should be able to replace it. Those are the conditions the Prius was designed for, stop-and-go driving (commuting). Although really short trips are harder on all vehicles than moderately longer to L O N G ones. When you say really short, are we talking blocks?
I'm talking about 3 to 4 miles one way. Usually I go home at lunch so I make that round trip twice a day.
There's no need to replace a working part. If it fails, you'll get some type of warning light on your dash. There are many pumps that make noise on the prius, last thing you want is to replace the wrong pump (without any codes to point you to a failing pump)
