How long do you guys plan to keep your Gen 2?

We just got about 6 inches and anticipate more to come over the weekend. It's not a huge deal if prepared.
BTW, I'm a Mizzou alum.

 

Biggest thing is the blind spot monitoring, I think. She likes the better gas mileage, too, although with her shorter trips it's not as significant as longer trips. She also says the it's easier with the new one to lower the windows to right where she wants them. She added, "And it doesn't have peeling paint on the roof."

 

I think I've had my 2008 for about 3.5 years. 140k miles to 260k miles.

Zero major problems, just ordinary maintenance like wheel bearing / struts.

Inside still really clean leather/carpet. Outside is maybe a 6 or 7/10. A deer jumped in front of me about 2 days ago and very minor damage, just front right bumper has a little gap and scuffs. Deer got right up and ran away. Probably clipped him at like 20-25mph I think he was fine.

So due to the very high mileage, and burning multiple quarts of oil every 1500 miles (been this way for about 80k miles), I'd say I will probably move on sometime in the next year...most likely to another Prius.

 

My 2007 has 202,000 miles on it. It still generally runs well though it started burning oil last winter. I plan to keep it until something expensive needs to be replaced or repaired.

Recently I noticed a Toyota commercial touting low interest on financing and thought maybe this would be a good time to buy a new Prius. I'm less than thrilled, though, about the Gen 4. The XLE has several features that I want, but has no spare tire and from what I've read both models have less cargo space than the Gen 2.

 

My 2008 has 289764 miles on it. The head gasket has failed and the coolant is pressurised by exhaust gasses. The head is probably warped, the bores are probably oval as it's burning oil. I'm at that point where I have to decide whether to put a replacement engine in or break it for parts.

To buy an equivalent gen2 I'd need to spend £2500 a fitted rebuilt engine is £895 which is cheaper than rebuilding my engine.

Battery seems good and apart from the oil and antifreeze use, still drives well. The cruise control doesn't work, heater matrix may have failed but that's the only other thing that isn't good.

Not sure what to do, weather it's worth fixing or time to give in

 

How do you add heated seats?

 

I am in Maryland, where we get a lot of ice and not a lot of snow. I was warned off the Prius by people telling me it's a terrible snow car, the TCS is so oversensitive as to be dangerous, etc. I put a set of Continental True Contacts on it- not even snow tires, just a stout all-season- and I agree with you, I find it to be very stable and easy to handle in our winter conditions. I'm interested in the AWD on the Gen 4 but doing just fine with what I have.

I love my '08. I had bad luck with my previous cars, all Hondas- the first Civic had something terminally, terrifyingly, and undiagnosably wrong with the brakes at 160k, the Accord caught fire at 190k which was a real shame, and the second Civic blew a head gasket at 185k while carrying about $4k of body damage (downtown street parking. But no one was going to steal it looking like that.) I intend that this will be the car that gets me across the 200k mark. I'm hoping that it makes it until the new solid-state battery has been on the market long enough to work the kinks out... and that by the time we get to that point, they go back to a dog-friendly hatchback dimension.

 

I’ve had my 2009 Prius for 4 years and I’ll keep it until I have to spend more in a year to fix it than it’s worth. Thus far, it’s the most expensive car I’ve ever bought, but it has been reliable. I live in the great white north, and although ice traction definitely needs getting used to, and it sometimes needs a bit of traction to first get going through larger amounts of snow, it reliably starts as low as 20 below zero Farenheit.

 

I bought a 2009 Prius with 42k miles last August. I’m up to almost 49k now and probably going to try for 299k. I hope my gen2 journey is just beginning.

 

Till death do us part and as long as I can pick up groceries.

 

I don't know whether to congrats you or ?? that's a lot of mileage.

 

My ‘07 Touring gave up the ghost at 349,655 miles. I wanted to push it across the 350,000 mile mark.
Traction battery died and she had cancer. Engine was perfectly fine and not long beforehand ran 100+ MPH up a slight incline.

As nice as my ‘16 vV with ATP is, I can’t help but to wonder if I shouldn’t have tried something to keep the most reliable and lowest cost of ownership car I have ever owned running just a little* longer...

* making the 400k mile club would have been nice

 

till they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

(or... i can somehow get in a situation where i live close enough to charging station and have the cash to buy a BEV but even then i will contemplate if i could convert the 2007 to all electric)

 

Okay now... who pulled the plug the day earlier...???..

 

Couple of minor issues really, I can live without cruise control, the heater core I'm not 100% sure it's failed. The oil burning and water loss will be fixed with a new engine. The HV battery seems fine and may have been replaced earlier in its life.

It was an ex taxi so did some mileage before I owned it.

I've gone for the replacement engine, hopefully it will keep running for a good while longer now