Shop recommendation on battery repair or replacement?

If it's in good shape you might get a decent trade on it.

 

Hi Myrdx,
Do you have an update on this? Is the replacement battery working ok? How much did it all cost? Thanks!

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congrats! glad to hear you're up and running at a reasonable cost.
now you've got me thinking i should trade while the tradings good

all the best!

 

New regular 3rd gen Prius batteries were around $2K USD, perhaps still. And if the plug-in's 3 times the capacity*? So three times two equals six (thousand dollars) would seem roughly appropriate.

*Yeah checked on Wikipedia, that's about right:

The 4.4 kWh lithium-ion battery developed for the Prius Plug-in fits under the rear cargo floor and weighs 80 kg (180 lb). As a comparison, the nickel-metal hydride battery of the third-generation Prius, which has a capacity of only 1.3 kWh, weighs 42 kg (93 lb).

A little apples/oranges though, different chemistry. But six grand more??

 

perhaps that was installed, but dealers charge anything they want, and we are free to shop around

 

I had to wait for DrPrius to support the Prime and would have liked to have gotten a baseline on the Pack earlier too. The car was already 2 years old before I got my first baseline, but am grateful to have that even at 2 years from new.
I had a 14 PiP, also. I was going to suggest doing the DrPrius thing before I read you'd already got it.
FYI, iirc the PiP has 3 battery banks making up the Traction Pack. So if you get the techstream documentation on the traction pack it will show you how to do with the PiP pack what others have already done with regular prius packs, except the reconditioning and balancing since the pack is Lithium and all the charging discharging in the reconditioning and balancing is different.
Each one of the 3 banks in the PiPs pack is easy enough to deal with on it's own. And if you have DrPrius when your car coded, it might have shown you if you actually needed all three banks or just perhaps one or two banks.
Obviously, at least to me anyways, if I were going to attempt to replace the 351 volt nominal 95 cell 5 bank traction pack in our Prime, I'd be using Techstream Lite and the recommended Toyota 3 passthrough adapter for the newer models. I'd be trying like hell to figure out how to remove the batteries in the traction pack bank by bank as opposed to pulling the whole pack out of the car with a cherry picker.
I already have the Prime pack disassembly instructions from my first 2 day subscription of techstream.
Cost per bank for the Prime is. last time I looked a year or two ago was 3.3k / 19 cell bank in the US and something like 1.5k / bank from amayama. Yes you got that right, a replacement pack for the Prime cost almost as much as the car cost new in 2017.

And my interest in Jack @ DrPrius and Jack @ nexpower lithium replacement for NiMH prius packs has a lot to do with how Jack nexpower packs are conditioned and balanced, even though the lithium chemistry if a bit different, it's close enough for now.

Professor John Kelly s Deep Dive into the Prius Prime Lithium Ion Traction Pack

 

And it’s three banks? That is a pricey battery for sure, but are you saying the Prime was $10,000 new? Presumably after rebates, but really?

 

5 banks. i could have gotten a new prime a few years back for around 22k, base model.

$3,300. x 5 from toyota = $16,500. plus labor.

amiyama is a much better deal of course

 

I don't have an amayama account yet, so I didn't get shipping rates when I looked up the batteries. I'm still looking for a reasonably priced one from the yards. which me luck.....

Dr Prius didn't support the PiP when I had ours. Most PiP owners were using scangauge or torque. And I haven't run the either test on the Prime except a once I tried to duplcate some of the cap test with the app open to get an idea about how long the test might run while I had the go pedal floored waiting for the traction pack to charge up.