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To: dangus
Unless you mean a plug-in hybrid, forget it. I get about 40 MPG from my Priuses, close to 50 MPG on the highway. But they’re virtually unserviceable. A brake repair job costs $3,000 Which is too bad, because hybrids create a LOT less wear on the engines.

$3,000 for a brake repair?...you must have let it grind down on the rotors

Brake linings cost about $80

And Y-Tube videos show how to do it.

Just a thin 17mm wrench...and an adaptor to reset the back brake mechanism.

I get 50 MPG steady in my 2014 Prius (now at 200,000 miles) steady as a rock driving a thousand miles a week for Uber

Trick is to use ECO and BRAKE (B) mode..reduces wear on front brakes.

38 posted on 01/20/2019 6:24:19 AM PST by spokeshave2 (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall.... $20,690,168 of $1.0B goal by 347,452 people.)
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To: spokeshave2

PS... only replaced the front and rear brake pads and spark plugs only once ...and did the job myself.


42 posted on 01/20/2019 6:31:43 AM PST by spokeshave2 (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall.... $20,722,141 of $1.0B goal by 348,109 people.)
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