Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 23:21     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 11:41     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
I’d keep it
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 11:03     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
You should be able to get a refurbished battery installed for around 2k
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 08:16     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
Anonymous wrote:Get a Tesla used one


You don’t think Tesla batteries will need replacing too?
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2025 07:59     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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
Post 02/13/2025 13:41     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
Get a Tesla used one
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 08:58     Subject: Re:Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
OP, here. Thank you everyone for weighing in on this. I truly appreciate it.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 08:24     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
Shop around on the Battery.

We paid around $3000 for our Battery and drove the car for another 60,000 miles
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2025 08:08     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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
Post 02/13/2025 06:27     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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
Post 02/13/2025 06:16     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
Are you sure it's only $5,000, parts and labor included?
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 22:53     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
What are 2013 Prius going for now?
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 21:42     Subject: Re:Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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
Post 02/12/2025 21:31     Subject: Re:Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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
Post 02/12/2025 21:28     Subject: Need Advice: Keep the car, or pay high repair costs?
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?