Just purchased a 2024 Prius Prime Plug-in Hybrid. The salesman is strongly encouraging me to buy the extended warranty, which, instead of just the 3-years or 60,000km, would give me 7 years or 120,000km.
His reasoning is not for the engine and drivetrain, but for all the electrical components. He states that if the back up camera or the digital display for the speedometer & guages & warnings goes, it is extremely costly. He added that the digital screen for the speedometer (etc.) went on his wife’s Lexus and it cost $9800 to replace.
I thought that Toyota would have a enough quality to last 7 years without something like that going,
Anyone know of issues like this with the Prius Prime? Has it not been around enough to know?
Now way to know for sure. Repairs on newer cars can indeed be really expensive. But you’d think – like you say – Toyota would do everything possible to protect the brand’s reputation.
hmmmm … How does Consumer’s Reports rate this car’s reliability? If it is too new to be rated, or rates mediocre, might be a good idea to purchase extended coverage, if only to calm your new-car-buyer nerves.
In the way of perspective, don’t mind me, I’m just a knucklehead diyer with no Prius experience. Just an opinion i is all. I can say factually-speaking is I’ve never had a display needing repair on my older Corolla (at any price), and never had a single airbag, abs, tpms, collision avoidance, or esc warning light appear on the dashboard . Of course my Corolla has none of those functions. … , oh and all the door-locks, and windows work like new … lol … best of luck. You may have to go w/your gut instinct on this one.
@Mikey53 The Ask Someone feature is not what you think it is . It does not direct you to just 2024 Prius owners. You have been sent to the Car Talk Community Forum. The chance of another Prius Prime owner seeing your question is low.
That extended warranty does not do anything until the intial factory warranty is over. Many extended warranties have large loop holes. If this is an actual Toyota warranty and the price is reasonable than you just have to decide if the peace of mind is worth it. Also make sure that you can use at other places besides your selling dealer.
You might want to post your question on a web forum that is Prius Prime specific.
ALL vehicles have issues, some just more than others, Toyota/Lexus vehicles overall are one of the, if not the most reliable vehicles on the road for many many years now, but that does not mean that things don’t/can’t break sooner or later… Not counting recalls or TSB stuff, all vehicles have at least a small % of issues anywhere from the front bumper to the rear bumper… That being said it is a crap shoot if an extended warranty will be needed or not… And warranty company’s are for profit businesses and count on having a lower % of claims than higher or they would simply go out of business…
That being said, if you have the budget and or able to pull funds to cover expensive repairs then I would be like the warranty company and hope nothing breaks, but if not and it is easier for you to speed X amount of $$ every month over the life of the car payments then the warranty may be better for you… Me or my daughter while in college and paying for her own car, a $5K + repair would be hard to handle with a car payment as well, so I added the Toyota extended warranty to her car, that being said the TPMS sensor (covered under the warranty) went out 800ish miles out of warranty, so basically never had a warranty claim… lol… But for her, it was better to have the warranty and not need it then to need it and not have it… Kinda like a seat belt… Although I have never needed it, I always wear it…
Again the warranty is a crap shoot, but I have also, for customers, used the warranty on 100’s if not 1000’s of vehicles over the years…