UPDATE ON MY NON RUNNING 02 PRIUS

Ya know, $2700 repairs for a 5-6 year old car (2008 model year are coming out now, 2002 started coming out at this time 6 years ago, so the math is ok--and it'll serve you well to be nice to people here if you want them to be nice to you...kinda like kindergarden) of any kind isn't exactly unprecedented. Not that that makes it good or OK, but stuff happens even with a highly reliable vehicle like a Toyota.

We had to pay almost $3000 for a 5 year old Ford Windstar a couple years ago, stuff happens. Warranties are just that...they're limited. You knew the limits of the warranty when you purchased the car....if it wasn't suitable then you've noone to blame but yourself and the guy holding the gun to your head to buy.

Now, as Galaxee said, we need a lot more info to help you. If the original battery replacement was, indeed, just the 12v battery then there really isn't likely to be any connection b/w that and the current problems. More likely it's just coincidental that the two problems on this 5-6 year old car occured close to the same time.

Let us know exactly what needs repaired and replaced...if you're getting $8000 worth of new stuff for only $2700 I think you should be dancing in the streets, you'll have a like-new car for a pretty good price.

 

whatever man, guess you've lived a charmed life up to now, but occasionally those of us who live on planet earth have unfortunate things happen to us. It doesn't mean it's a conspiracy and it doesn't mean someone else is to blame.

Again, you have little in the way of information to give us that might allow us to provide actually help. You heap on speculation that somehow a bad 12v battery could cause $8000 in damage. And then you pretend that you have to pay the whole $8000 when you've already acknowledged that Toyota has offered to foot 2/3rds of the bill when they are under ZERO obligation to do so.

You had the choice to buy an extended warranty which would have covered all of this...but YOU chose not to, now you want the priveledges of the extended warranty anyway.

I do feel badly for you that things have not gone well, but this could have happened with ANY car, ANY brand when it gets to be 5-6 years old. Nobody likes it, but it's not a reason to condemn the entire line esp. when you and we don't even know what's actually wrong. AND, if it is actually somehow due to the bad 12v then how on earth do you rationalize condemning the car? That's like getting bad gas and saying everyone should sell their car b/c yours broke when you got bad gas...

Again, I know you feel bad. I know you're worried about the expense. But do try to remain rational and level headed here and put things in perspective. The vast majority of '01 and '02 Prii are running great and have few or no expensive problems. Just like the majority of '01 and '02 Honda Civics are running great with no problems. But there are exceptions with the Prius just as there are with the Civic, but those exceptions don't make the car bad.

 

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Did you read the part about trying to remain rational, level headed and calm? I never said that cars are "supposed to quit running after 5 years". I said that in the real world sometimes they do. It sucks when it happens, we've all acknowledged that over and over...and for a while we sypathised with you...right up until you started attacking us. Now you're just coming off as a defensive self-rightous jerk and I'm suprised with your attitude that Toyota bothered to offer you a dime toward repair.

Nobody's claimed you are, but this certainly helps highlight your irrational defensiveness.

Been there, done that, it sucks...but I don't come crying that the world owe's me something it doesn't. I pay my bill for the out-of-warrantee repair and get on with my life.

Then, again, you need to provide a LOT more information. What out of that $8000 isn't covered by the warranty and why? If your car is only 5 years old then it should be covered for anything drivetrain related or hybrid system related...can't imagine there are any other major parts other than body work that wouldn't be covered for $8000. For about the 20th time, if you'll give us info we can try to give you info...unless you just want to irrationally keep attacking us.

It amounts to at least $5000 in lost revenue PLUS the cost of the parts and labor they have to pay...I'd guess around $8-9000 assuming your numbers are accurate. But the sentence says a LOT about you. You want them punished. You don't give a crap about having your car fixed and running you want Toyota to suffer somehow for this. This is bitterness and spitefulness on your part and you're coming here to spread it further. Nice, real nice.

Again, they stand behind their products to the limits of the warranty. And, in your case, well beyond it to the tune of $5000. But you've got the extended warranty and yet it doesn't cover this expense. I can't wait to hear the explaination on this.

Poor sad me again. Yes, it sucks...I can say it 20 more times if it'll make you feel better. But you're not the first nor will you be the last that this happens to. And nobody will like it any more than you do. But ANY car could die in the middle of BFE and if one were unprepared in the outback one would die. But anyone who drives in the outback in ANY car will go out prepared to survive the breakdown of their car should that unlikely situation occur.

Please, seriously, save the woe is me stuff and bashing of the members of this forum. Try to be a bit more calm and rational. Come back on Monday after you've had a chance to talk to the dealer, get some info, find out what needs to be replaced and why (as well as you can), let us know what's not covered by the extended warranty and why the dealer says it's not covered. And best of all some explaination of how a bad 12v battery could cause $8000 in damage...that's got us all befuddled.

 

Please point out the individual that claimed the car is infallible.
You didn't come here on some mission, you came here to bitch.