Skip to main content

Add new comment

G Groenewold (not verified)    October 29, 2022 - 6:55AM

Thanks for sharing your views on the HV battery. When I bought my camry hybrid 2009 about 4 years ago, I was not aware of the Dr. Prius app back then, so it was a gamble. However, the car had only 86K miles on the odo and looked new to me, including the engine-department I was not aware of the HV battery issues at that time, but I just recently bought the Dr. Prius app (about 12$, you have buy the paid version to test the SOC and Life-time battery condition estimate) and a diagnostic dongle the way the car drives I bought the paid version (about 12 US$, i think) and a good bluetooth diagnostic OBD2 dongle to plug into the socket (below the plastic steering-wheel cover, above the gas-pedal). Follow the instructions for testing as presented on two youtube videos. In my case Dr. Prius app report the battery was at 69% level (bordeline cae, fair (50-70%) to good (70%-)). Of course, bad things may happen tomorrow, but I think I am pretty confident that the HV battery will survive the next few years too. This is not bad for a 14 years old car (105k miles) which does not seem to consume oil between annual (5k) oil change intervals (Valvoline 5W30). The car has been a very reliable partner, so far.

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote cite> <ul> <ol'> <code> <li> <i>
  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.