Have a good gen 3 battery sitting around. Bought a Prius C says "Check Hybrid System" on dash and I suspect bad hybrid battery. With modifications is it possible to put the normal gen 3 battery in? Seen people say the Prius and Prius V are easily interchangeable with mods but didn't come across anything on the Prius C.
Yes, you can use the gen 3 modules to replace the bad battery pack in the Prius C. The Prius C only has 10 modules while the gen 3 uses 14. I would load test and pick the best modules available so you don’t get any codes. Good luck!
clarification: the battery can't be used as is, but the modules inside your spare battery and your prius c battery are the same. One could transplant individual modules, but you don't have the right item to do an instant full battery swap.
My mechanic will look at when in comes from Texas in a week or 2....But, is the "regular Prius" entire battery assembly too big? As in it is physically impossible to make it fit in the "C"? He puts gen 4 motors in gen 3s and is handy so thought maybe we can use the good regular prius battery we have on shelf. He can "slap a few cells" in the bad one but I don't like that idea.
It's too big. The compatibility that you've been hearing about is that the blocks (of modules) inside that shiny metal case are exactly the same as the ones inside the Prius c and Prius v battery cases. The difference is the count: the c uses 10 blocks (20 modules) where your stored battery has 14 (28) and the v model has a larger one with more. So yes, you could still use the thing you have to repair that Prius c, it just won't be the plugging and playing of one big unit. So that's a very different sort of repair.
Sorry, I must've been thinking of the hybrid camry battery. Either way, the 3rd generation battery on the shelf won't fit in a prius c, but pieces of it might.
