Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?

[Anonymous]

I have a 2013 Prius that has ~130k miles on it. The main battery died and will cost more than $5k to replace.

It's an old car, but it's a Prius and can go up to 250k more miles with regular maintenance.

What would you do in my situation?

[Anonymous]

Unless you’re dying for a new car and looking for someone to help you justify it, this is a dumb question. The only reason to get a new car under this situation is because you want one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless you’re dying for a new car and looking for someone to help you justify it, this is a dumb question. The only reason to get a new car under this situation is because you want one.

I bet you're a d!ck in real life, too.

[Anonymous]

What are 2013 Prius going for now?

[Anonymous]

Are you sure it's only $5,000, parts and labor included?

[Anonymous]

I’d get a new car personally. Based on it being over 12 years old and needing to spend 5k on it.
I love Hondas and they last forever. If I had to spend 5k on my crv now though I’d trade it in.

[Anonymous]

If I can remember correctly, we had a battery go bad in a 2007 Prius. I think there was something like 18 individual battery cells and we took it to someone who specialized in opening up the battery pack identifying which battery cells were bad and replacing those only. What was a $3000 repair bill in 2016 he fixed for $600

We ended up driving that car for another 30,000 miles without issue

[Anonymous]

Shop around on the Battery.

We paid around $3000 for our Battery and drove the car for another 60,000 miles

[Anonymous]

OP, here. Thank you everyone for weighing in on this. I truly appreciate it.

[Anonymous]

Get a Tesla used one

[Anonymous]

Will the new battery be guaranteed for a certain number of miles? If so, and that's the only issue with the car, and I liked the car, I'd probably replace it. But I have kept driving cars with many miles and issues, when others would have traded them in. YMMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a Tesla used one

You don’t think Tesla batteries will need replacing too?

[Anonymous]

You should be able to get a refurbished battery installed for around 2k

[Anonymous]

I’d keep it

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at services like “greenbeanbattery” for refurbished or new module batteries? Significantly cheaper than dealership and they have mobile technicians who come to you to switch out the traction battery.
“priuschat” might be a better forum for advice from folks who have gone thru the process already.