Featured Where is the best place to buy replacement cells?

I might end up having to replace the cells in my HV battery in a gen 2 Prius.

I'm curious to know if there are any good, reputable websites that sell cells at an affordable price.

I've looked on eBay and they seem to range from 19.99-30 bucks each.

If you had to replace the cells in your HV battery, where would you go?

 

He won't sell you the modules if you want to do it yourself?

Other than that he's got the best price to warranty I've seen

 

I actually talked with that professor vis email today. They actually just ship them to you and I'm assuming the previous response about lawyers and such was correct. Just covering himself legally basically.

What I'm going to do is this.

If the guy who originally changed the battery honors the repair have him do that but be ready to get a replacement pack from this professor in OR.

His warranty and price can't be beat. I'll end up doing it myself and be done with it.

Still in the car for less than 3 grand.

I've invested too much time into this project to just let it die.

Also I'd never sell someone a car with something major wrong with it like this. That's wrong and I've had it happen to me before. Not going down that road.

 

Sure

So I went with 2nd life batteries

Joe was super nice

There was an issue with my modules and I got like 12 of another guy's and he got 13 of mine

After he figured out what happened he credited me back 50 bucks

Making my total investment 1050

He even held off on the core charge taking me on my word I'd send back the old modules and bus bars... Which I did and he laid for shipping

I replaced the HV battery and a few miles in got a master warning signal for a P0A84 (cooling fan)

Connector for the cooling fan was heavily corroded so I spliced the wires

I also cleaned the fan during the HV battery installation.

I have put about 700 miles on the car and am on my 2nd tank

My first tank I went 444 Mike's and averaged 50.4 mpg

My current tank I am averaging 52.4 mpg and am just under a half tank for this full up

Joe offers a 1-3 year warranty which is transferrable to one additional person if you decide to sell the car

Very pleased this far

 

Well that's all in man

Shipping, core charge the whole shabang

New modules would probably be 1600 before shipping and such

I paid 1900 for the entire car

My logic was don't pay more for the battery than the car

However in retrospect I'd have probably gone with the newer style cells and brand new

However I don't regret this at all

Cars running great without issue

All you can ask for when chasing those high mpgs!

 

Didn't think of that

Wasn't aware of that at the time

Don't care now

 

Ummm sure

I replaced a rusted fender and did a lot of paint correction

 

Ohhh and the tailgate garnish

That I did too

I probably have like 3100-3200 into it including everything