subject: What Options Do You Have To Replace Dead Batteries For Prius? [print this page] What Options Do You Have To Replace Dead Batteries For Prius?
When someone buys a prius they expect it to save them a lot of gas money, and it sure does. The sad part is that after a while every prius battery dies. When this happens owners are forced to buy replacement batteries for Prius.
What else should you know about batteries for Prius? And how can you save a heap of money once your Prius battery dies?
Most batteries for Prius last around 8 years or 140,000 miles, depending on which comes first. Now this doesn't sound too bad, but wait till you hear what replacement batteries for Prius will cost you.
Basically when your Prius battery dies you will have these 3 options:
Option #1:
Take your car to a Toyota dealer to have the battery rebuilt. This sounds like an easy solution, but you have to be willing to fork out $4,000 for your new battery. Toyota knows they can charge you a ton of cash so they aren't exactly shy when they bill you.
Option #2:
Buy replacement batteries for prius that have already been rebuilt. You can find these from suppliers online, and they should cost you around $2,000. This solution is already only half the price of a Toyota dealership, but you still need someone to put the rebuilt batteries for Prius into your car.
Option #3: The cheapest solution to replace dead batteries for Prius.
You can rebuild the batteries for Prius by yourself, or have a local shop rebuild them for you by following a step by step guide. You can get a batteries for Prius rebuild guide online that will show you exactly what you need to do and where to get the parts to rebuild your batteries for Prius for under $500.
If you take the guide to your local shop, they will repair your dead battery for you at their normal shop rate. Even this will cost under $500.
