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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
I just scoped my cylinders in the 2006 Prius with 215k miles and the block is junk. Regardless of the oil change intervals the previous owners did it didn't keep it from tearing chunks out of the cylinder walls. And you can't bore these engines so my engine is now junk. Three cylinders have chunks missing out of the cylinder walls and all four have grooves.
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How does that even happen?
I've had high mileage Toyota Camry engines seize up from overheating and quit when the wife was driving it, and later after filling the coolant back up the thing runs fine.
Guess that scoping helped inform your best move on that Prius. The value of used cars isn't going to get any better than right now, but I guess it's probably scrap value?