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Should You Buy a Second-Hand Prius?


Since the summer of 2000, more than 500000 Prius hybrids have fulfilled silent US roads and highways. Now, most small cars are demanding in a lot of second-hand opportunity, as gas sippers.

With a turnover of new hybrids, an increase of nearly 30 percent a year and oil prices following at speeds faster, a second hand hybrid may, by behaving as an intelligent alternative to a close economy .

But because the car is relatively new design, there is little information is available to help consumers, reliability, the judge Prius as an opportunity to other previous reports of Prius owners.

Consumer caution. The risks may be higher than you think.
Toll-Blues

Doris in Smithville, Tennessee purchased a used Prius, in July 2006.

“The attempt to let me know before you buy the car, I asked the battery and it was suggested that they had never seen any battery is not only one cell at a time, for a amount of $ 200 per cell, “she says. “I did not want that money was never paid to a whole new Prius. I wanted to test the waters on a first opportunity. ”

The decision to buy a second hybrid has been costly.

The Prius 2006, 73200 miles on the odometer to leave 26800 remaining in the battery hybrid security. “I thought, and she has bought, I lived the dream, but only for a moment,” said Doris ConsumerAffairs.Com.

If the cold weather Prius, they have no power. The engine was difficult to start. “In conclusion, he went down,” she said. “No course!”

Toyota Dealers said Doris in the first, it takes on the tank full of gas and can be dashed to the computer system Prius. The repair cost $ 1,900.

A year later, the Prius has all the power lost en route to 65 km / h on an Interstate highway. “I was afraid of death,” wrote Doris. Prius was envisaged to a dealer and Doris has been said, “the house of the battery, it was $ 6890 would be solved.”

Remember that the first traders told them, the battery never totally failed, and the replacement cost would be approximately $ 2000.

Doris was lucky, as things go.

“They found the support of technology, and it was a leaf sucked into a filter, which prevents the air, and the battery and dehydrated.” Doris increased from $ 225 to traction of the Prius to distributors and $ 276 on the cost of the house of the battery included. VAT, much less than the initial estimate of $ 6890 repair, but still $ 549.85.

But not all the messages of the repair was good. “She told me, it could happen again. So, I hid with what I feel is a defective product. I am Toyota gunea pork rolls, “she said.” I can not trade cars, because they say I am at $ 5500 Page Down, “she said. “I buy a new car ride with this amount. I can not afford a new car with a $ 425 per month payment.

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