Just hit 300k, and still going strong! I live in Hawaii now, and of course I took my v with me! Ive been through a lot with this car, its now been to 44 states and Mexico, I mean, how many cars have been to Times Square, Maine, North Dakota, and Hana Hawaii? The torch will be passed one day soon, I just bought a 2018 Prius, but I wont drive it until my v gives out!
Pic is Westside Maui? Good looking car, beautiful setting. With all those miles did you do an EGR clean out?
Is that a non-metallic colour? Not stock? Looks good; I wish they'd offer a few solid colour options. How do you get a car to Hawaii, btw, and what would that cost, if you don't mind?
yes, and yes! at about 240k Its Habanero, stock Toyota color for the Prius C, had it repainted, $800 usd to ship it from Long Beach CA port to Maui, not bad nope, no leaks, changed oil every 10k miles from the beginning, maybe I just got lucky?
EGR cleaning at 240k is impressive with no oil burning. Was that the only EGR cleaning ever done? Do you use any particular fuel additives? The Swedish v driver was getting EGR problems at 40k miles from just driving slow. I'm assuming these cars like to be driving at highway speeds a lot to last this long.
A steady flow of EGR (highway speed) with the engine fully warmed up helps keep the EGR passages from clogging up. The oily carbon buildup is from the exhaust gas distilling inside of the EGR cooler. With engine coolant near boiling temperatures this occurs at a lower rate. Google "EGR thermophoresis".
In winter our coolant rarely if ever got up to "operating temperature", usually stabilized around 60~70C (monitoring with ScanGuage, no longer doing that). Searching the above expression you mention, coolant cooled EGR's are more prone to carbon build-up, doubly so if the coolant's below operating temp.
