Free 2010 Prius with 230k

are you pri camping on the way back?

 

Tom and Ray's final piece of advice - and should it die on the way, just call the local public radio station and have them pick it up!

 

With a fine ride like that, he should be valet parking at the Hilton.

 

You made me worried ... I bought my Prius thinking of staying with it for the next 10 years, and we have no mechanics (at least for now) to fix the hybrids here.

 

In honor of Yogi Berra I'm just going to say.....

It's free, it's just going to cost him something to get it.

Geographical obtainment challenges aside?
That's way under Kelly Blue Book.

 

private party in miami 4k. fly to cali and drive it back nets you? dad: sell it and send a check please

 

Or just have the old man procure it, hold onto it and the next time a visit happens, disposition the gift in whatever manner makes the most sense.

I’ve done the cross country trek once one way and that was enough .

 

Okay, I have a solution. You Dad can drive it to Texas. You can hitch hick to Texas(or take a bus). Texas is more or less half way.
You can drive the car back, your Dad can hitch hick back(or take a bus)!
I'll meet you on I-95 in Vero, drive you to Miami, and I'll drive it back home.

 

Then we’ll see this story on dateline.

 

Alternate solution - fly to get the car, visit the parents, drive home with Dad, Dad flies home. You have time with Dad, you both get a road trip, if the car craps out you have company.

 

I had a situation where I got a free car from my grandparents and it abruptly died on a cross country road trip. Of course, it had lasted a few years from when they gave it to me and then, and it wasn’t a Prius. My last car had its life abruptly end when I slid on an ice patch into a truck. That wasn’t a Prius either. So a worse case situation can happen with any car, and is no reason to avoid accepting a free gift that only costs what it would take to visit your family (who you were going to visit anyway, right? )

 

I’d definitely take it. There could easily be another 100,000 miles left in that car.

If you’re on your way to an exam and it dies, call an Uber.

True, ANY nine year-old, high-mileage car can fail. That goes without saying. But the Prius is highly reliable, and your father probably took excellent care of it, meaning, he didn’t drive it like he’s leading the pack at Daytona.

 

I'd take it as long as you are OK with the following notes.

• How much would you spend on a new car?
• If the hybrid battery goes bad, you can spend 12 hours and $300 to fix it yourself with junkyard cells or $1,500 at a 3rd party. But this is maybe a 15% chance in the next year.
• The 2010s should get the EGR system cleaned of carbon and at that milage, change the spark plugs. Dedicate 4-5 hours and just do it yourself.
• The car may burn synthetic 0w-20 oil, but may run fine on conventional 5w-30 oil after 120,000 miles in these Gen3s
• Do you want a hatchback? It's easy to load tables and chairs in it.
• Do you like saving $800 a year on gas?

 

And add a potential head gasket failure to the list.

 

Doesn’t that go on the list for any car with over 200,000 miles?

 

not worth it man, too high of a mileage, not sure i would even chance less than 200k on a west to east coast drive let alone one approaching 250k. AND, batteries and heat arent good bedfellows, -- pretty sure priuses die an early death in Arizona , maybe also southern cali - miami is similar and the HV bat pack already weak from age and useage would not fair well ...

 

To what vehicle and annual mileage are you comparing to arrive at this figure?

 

Hey this is important or not. What recent work has your dad done on this car or had done to it?

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'its in great shape, and just had the brakes fixed'

 

even family , with good intentions, and though the thing has alot of value, its in a far away place, it is not easy to sell prius unless gas is >$3+/ gal , - but u know, sometimes, u gotta say screw it ! and take a chance, a risk, live life on the edge for excitement ... just have your back with AAA, - cell phone, battery backups (12v Aux backup, cell phone backup battery charger, -- and keep your fingers crossed, ) ..-- that's a weak trip .. enjoy the sites they say ... wouldnt be a bad idea to have replaced that invertor fluid with the pink zerex before the trip , as well as the engine coolant with the same stuff ... and you do have a good scanner, torque , maybe even techstream ? for those little lighting moments along the way, where u can put your mind at ease for non-critical items ....