To Buy Or Not to Buy - The Truth About a Replacement Prius Battery
For most Prius owners with battery problems already know the sad reality of a replacement Prius battery and its cost.
Now for those of you who do no know, a new Prius battery is not the cheapest repair.
As a matter of fact, it is one of the MOST expensive repairs that your Prius is going to need.
With a price tag of over $3,000, you can understand why! But are there any other options? Well up until recently, the only two options that Prius owners had were the following - - Spend the thousands to get a replacement Prius battery OR - Sell their car just pennies of what it is really worth just to salvage something Now I do not know about you, but those do not sound like very appealing options to me! One day your Prius will not start.
Now leading up to this, you may have noticed that your Prius started losing power or that the charge would no longer hold as well as it did.
These are all very common symptoms of your battery starting to go! At this point, the problems lie with Prius vehicles ranging from 2001 through 2003.
A battery life cycle varies a bit, but typically a battery will last in the neighborhood of seven to nine years.
So if you own a 2001 - 2003 Prius, you are coming up to that point where it may be time to start thinking about a replacement Prius battery.
I want to let you in a little secret however - the smart Prius owners are no longer replacing their battery! That is right! There is a way to actually rebuild the battery! Here is how it works - Inside the main Prius battery (otherwise known as the "traction battery" are individual cells.
It is these cells that actually power the battery itself.
Through the course of time, these individual cells start to go bad.
As more and more start to go bad, the less and less effective your battery is.
But did you know that instead of replacing the battery, you can actually replace those individual cells that are bad? This is where you save all that money! Do you not think that it would be cheaper to replace the individual battery cells instead of getting a replacement Prius battery? The real trick however is learning how to do this yourself! After all, you want to save a bunch of money right?
Now for those of you who do no know, a new Prius battery is not the cheapest repair.
As a matter of fact, it is one of the MOST expensive repairs that your Prius is going to need.
With a price tag of over $3,000, you can understand why! But are there any other options? Well up until recently, the only two options that Prius owners had were the following - - Spend the thousands to get a replacement Prius battery OR - Sell their car just pennies of what it is really worth just to salvage something Now I do not know about you, but those do not sound like very appealing options to me! One day your Prius will not start.
Now leading up to this, you may have noticed that your Prius started losing power or that the charge would no longer hold as well as it did.
These are all very common symptoms of your battery starting to go! At this point, the problems lie with Prius vehicles ranging from 2001 through 2003.
A battery life cycle varies a bit, but typically a battery will last in the neighborhood of seven to nine years.
So if you own a 2001 - 2003 Prius, you are coming up to that point where it may be time to start thinking about a replacement Prius battery.
I want to let you in a little secret however - the smart Prius owners are no longer replacing their battery! That is right! There is a way to actually rebuild the battery! Here is how it works - Inside the main Prius battery (otherwise known as the "traction battery" are individual cells.
It is these cells that actually power the battery itself.
Through the course of time, these individual cells start to go bad.
As more and more start to go bad, the less and less effective your battery is.
But did you know that instead of replacing the battery, you can actually replace those individual cells that are bad? This is where you save all that money! Do you not think that it would be cheaper to replace the individual battery cells instead of getting a replacement Prius battery? The real trick however is learning how to do this yourself! After all, you want to save a bunch of money right?
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