Replacing HV Battery on antique Prius

yeah, i think any old prius is going to need some repairs, so there is risk, but you have to weigh it vs something newer and more expensive.
having to use a dealer certainly puts you behind the 8 ball

 

You buy the battery online through the dealer That's how you get the lowest price You don't pay the dealer to put it in your car hopefully you can work around that I guess if you absolutely must then you start getting into the age of the car the problems and the cost you're paying for repairs maybe a Prius isn't for you maybe a little $3,000 '09 Yaris will carry you forever It's expensive to get good fuel mileage Why bother e fuels are coming down the pipeline internal combustion engines got another 20 more years at least so you're in good shape Why worry with it unless Cincinnati Ohio is rust bucket USA your car should be in relatively good shape You can see by reading here the battery the brake actuator are about the two most expensive things left on the car The gas gauge dash if it goes out for all of those parts and problems can you buy another complete car with lesser problems and parts needed that's what you have to figure The maximum amount of the repairs were talking about even if you pay the dealer and go overboard is about 5 grand or so what are you going to get for 5 grand for a little bit less about an '09 Yaris like I said.

 

You're worried about paying dealer and maximum retail for every operation done on your car I don't think you want to buy a battery where you're not going to have the reliability of the 8 to 10 years and no worries.

 

If you can buy a few wrenches and a quarter inch drive metric socket set and things like that most of this stuff is really easy to do and it doesn't take records amount of time to do like changing the battery's not a bad job I get my girlfriend or my buddy who's over visiting to help me lift the battery if I need that sort of thing to move it from the trunk of the car to the work table or whatever I don't really but if I needed that kind of help my girlfriend can help steady one end of the battery It's not that kind of heavy or anything an old man like me with a bad back and another guy like me with a bad back and lift it out and set it on a table I do it by myself with a bad back I don't give a hoot. Then once it's up on said table and what not You know it's an hour's worth of work to undo all the nuts and the bus bars and clean stuff and general housekeeping that sort of thing. But here you'll just be taking the core out taking the front end in the computer off the battery and using that as your core so when you get the new battery all you're going to do is bolt the front end on it add a wire to like supposed to be tighten a couple of nuts set the battery back where it goes in the car add the wires from the car to the inverter tighten them up put the service plug back in so on and so forth might want to look at a few videos before you tackle this goes pretty straightforward or you can pay the people the $300 once you do this one time and you think to yourself man I was going to give up $300 for pay somebody to do this and you may think wow maybe not.

 

agree on car shopping. why won't the independent mech who checked for corrosion install a new one for you?

 

exactly. not worth the extra you have to pay the dealer to install.

 

Then really read and understand the warranty as you may very well need it.

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In your shoes, I'd probably go the dealership installed route. It's extra, but there is the warranty, and there's no core charge, and there's no third party (so no finger-pointing), and in a month or two your budget will be back on track.