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I will say ive spent about $600 on unscheduled maintenance on my 2010 prius, so a 13 year old prius. Fixed up the pcv/egr issues which took me plenty of free time under the hood. But parts wise all ive had to buy was an egr cooler which was optional, some polk audio neodymium speakers when the stock jbl's went, slightly optional, I could've went cheaper, and I did a bad job keeping up with my lube jobs on my brakes at the beginning and i let the rear brakes lock up and i did new centric rotors and akebono pads lol.
A 60k mile pull jdm prius motor is $1600 if you throw a rod, a head gasket kit is $200 if you blow the gasket and keep the rods inside, and a new oem battery is $1700 every holiday before tax lol. At 50mpg average still seems pretty hard to beat at year 13 when my car is worth $2500 and I only spent $5100 on it 110 thousand miles ago back in 2016 lol
With that said it really depends on owners mechanical experience but it seems like a lot of prius owners are not afraid to tinker.
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