How long do I keep this car? It is giving me no problems and I keep the maintenance up religiously. It has 244000 miles on it.

These cars are now favorites for urban taxi use. Talk to some taxi drivers!! The Prius is head and shoulders above any other hybrid car on the market, so expect it to have typical Toyota life expectancy which I have witnessed can be up to a million miles under the right circumstances. Budget for a …

There are maintenance items that the manufacturer tends not to mention, as they only need the car to last past the warrantee period. So if these are not on your list, add them: Change transmission fluid and filter, every 30-50k miles Change brake fluid whenever brake pads are changed. (others her…

I’m a fan of synthetic oil. I change both of our Prii’s oil twice a year. I’ve never changed the transmission fluid in either car. I doubt it’s necessary.

Over at the Prius Club on FB we have members who post 300K mile markers in that gen pretty regularly. Here’s my thinking on your specific case: Your car is already “Fully depreciated.” It has only nominal value at this point as a trade or private sale and the depreciation curve now is very flat, mea…

I think it was a decade ago that a taxi driver here in Vancouver racked up over a million kilometres on his Prius. I don’t know if the maintenance included battery replacement or not. I don’t think he had any major engine problems. Toyota bought it back from him to tear it down and understand how…

Had a friend whose '08 died at about 200k. Mostly battery. They said the car was worth far less than the $3k the battery would cost (see other comments). He bought a new '18.

My friend drives for Uber; he bought a salvage title Prius a few yrs ago, drove it to 400K miles, sold it for a few thousands and now has bought another salvage Prius.

a relative of one of my friends drove prior-gen prius past 200K miles before it broke on him, but that guy refused to do ANY maintenance on the car other than oil changes… so, predictably, his timing belt snapped

We have a 2008 Prius with 130K. The catalytic converter needs to be replaced (which means o2 sensors too), brakes, and there’s some cooling system associated with the batteries that needs to be replaced too. In California, in all that’s like $5K of work. But we’re about to move to Georgia, where …

One thing to consider is what part of Georgia you are moving to as a lot of place’s in Georgia does not have inspection’s.

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