What Does 90,000 Mile Service For Toyota 2011 Prius

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Hi all,
I am new to the forum. I have a 2011 Prius 4 that I bought new in April 2011. I took my car to the dealership for the 90,000 mile maintenance 2 days agone. I know everything's a lot more expensive at the dealership, just I was surprised they wanted $1,100. I know nothing about cars and had no thought what's supposed to be included in a ninety,000 mile maintenance, and so I didn't feel similar I had a option. I looked at the list of services and had no thought what a lot of them were for and couldn't tell how piece of cake/hard they were.

If yous're interested in what's included in the service, I take attached the list. Past the way, I live in the San Francisco bay area, so I imagine the labor cost is college, but they charged $700+ for labor and so $300+ for parts.The guy told me every ninety,000 miles would be a major service, afterward that information technology'll be small and intermediate services again until I hit 180,000 miles. I bought a 5 year maintenance when I bought the car so I didn't pay for maintenance until 2016, then I had iii services which costed me between $340 and $500.

I retrieve I was ripped off and would like to utilise a new mechanic side by side time. I need to acquire more than about maintenance though. I have a couple questions:

1. Where can I get a list of services included in each type of maintenance (small-scale, intermediate, major) so that I can tell the new mechanic what I need?
2. Tin I do some of these easily past myself though I have never worked on cars?

Please help.

Thanks,
James
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Read your owners manual. There is a chart toward the back that volition show you what needs to be done
and when. And y'all can practise all of it yourself.
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Wow, looks like they hosed you pretty good. Yep, there's a list of essential service demands in the owners' transmission. You tin become free PDFs from Toyota if yous bought your car secondhand without manuals, or if you've separated them from the car.
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welcome!
i'thousand sorry to see that you lot were taken advantage of by an unscrupulous dealer.

log in to the toyota owners website for the warranty and maintenance guide, if you can't find the one that came with your automobile.

unfortunately, 90k is not a major service, but it doesn't hurt practise practice some things early.

the easiest things do practice yourself are the air and motel filters. you tin can find lots of videos on youtube, and check out fellow member @NutzAboutBolts videos specifically.

the fuel system cleaner may or may non assistance

the brake fluid change was good.

the crankcase service was probably a rip off

injection and throttle torso probably a good thought

fuel system drier and coolant conditioners are a ripoff

mass air flow sensor a good idea.

what you're going to demand, before you maybe blow a head gasket is a complete egr circuit cleaning, which is non in the manual
and a tranny fluid replacement would likewise be a good idea

spend some time here earlier proceeding, and acquire about your car. taking good intendance of it at present will atomic number 82 to less future problems if y'all intend to keep it.

looking at my own schedule, you have the major services coming at:

100k; replace engine and inverter coolant.

120k; supplant spark plugs

all the best!
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Greetings!
Welcome Aboard!!That's all pretty much been covered above.
To those that follow:
Call up.
Y'all E'er have the right to choose!
Peculiarly if you drive the car TO a mechanic....meaning you can ever drive Abroad from a mechanic.
Don't feel too bad.
You accept a 9 year old car that you haven't actually had to put a lot of money into that is yet saving yous a lot...especially in taxes, insurance, and gas.Also...asked and answered.
You're proficient for another twelvemonth given your past mileages.

ane. Check your oil every calendar month.
No.
Really....your car is virtually nine years erstwhile. That'south when they showtime experimenting with drinking and smoking. Also consider clubbing down to a 5,000 mile oil change interval.
If zip else, information technology volition get yous or an interested bystander a chance to yank your hood open more than one every 10,000 miles.

2. You tin can learn how to practise encephalon surgery past watching YouTube videos, and then why not something as elementary as changing out your engine air filter?
All of the maintenance items that you're just now learning about are covered in item out on the interwebs.
@NutzAboutBolts has some very expert ones.
It'southward not a heavy elevator....even in Caly, where you lot probably accept to perform an ecological impact report and get permits to alter your own oil....but there are however (probably) ane or two DIY-ers left over at that place.

Don't go crazy and think that yous take to purchase $18,500 worth of Snap-On tools.
Really.
For most of the items, I'1000 thinking that brands like Stanley and Craftsman will exist more than than acceptable and about $100 volition get a long way towards making you rip-off-resistant when y'all REALLY have to have something important washed.

If nothing else, familiarizing yourself with all of the maintenance tasks for your car volition give you a much ameliorate thought of what is existence done and you will exist able to more than easily gauge whether or non information technology's done RIGHT.

Call up.
A dealership employee gets paid by the JOB more often than not.
More jobs = more money.
This encourages short cuts and sloppy work.
Even "master mechanics" who are salaried or hourly employees are judged by how much work they crank out.

When I piece of work on one of MY cars?

I tin take the extra time to check things out or detect that fastener that went skittering across the garage when I dropped information technology.
If nothing else?

I know who to blame if it's not washed correct!

Skillful Luck!
Which wonderful Bay Area dealer provided those "necessary" services ?
Just proficient to know what places to avoided when possible.

Prior to your side by side servicing, I'd investigate another dealer or shop equally the current service provider appears to have their all-time involvement in heed and non yours.

Good luck and keep us posted .
$19.46 for "Mass AF cleaner" is fashion too high: a week or two back I bought a tin can of CRC MAF cleaner to utilize on a unlike vehicle -- less than $x, and it will do a lot more just i vehicle. Many of the other "parts" charges may have been artificially high also.
And how did they calculate the labor charges? Did each 5-minute job get charged at their minimum time (15 minutes or even longer)?
In that location is no "chart towards the back"; yous're sending him on a wild goose chase. In that location is an effect-by-event maintenance caption, in the split Warranty and Maintenance Booklet. As well, everybody has different mechanical "condolement levels". Information technology's expert to button the limits a bit, but non everybody is willing to do everything involved.Ok, Dutch uncle time:
You can read? Hither'southward an excerpt from the Toyota Warranty and Maintenance Booklet , for your auto:

The highlighted items are really all you demand the dealership doing. The engine and cabin filters: waive them. Inspect them yourself, and change merely as needed. The residue of it, is mostly fluff, and/or lawyer requested...

Virtually all the stuff on the dealership invoice is quick-buck nonsense.

That said, note the brake item above: that is a Total brake inspection. The dealership evidently didn't feel inclined to practise that. They DID stiff you lot for some brake fluid, for topping upward the reservoir I'd assume. The latter is totally unecessary, in a brake organization that is operation normally, not leaking. Which I'd assume applies to yours.

Just, toyota usa recommends that total brake inspection, tri-yearly or 30K miles, whichever comes kickoff.

Hither's the sub-note three text btw, same page:

You should have this booklet, btw. If it's missing, you tin can download pdf version from Toyota Tech Info (just google that), in the manuals section.

That said, the outcome-by-event format sucks, makes information technology more-or-less impossible to become a sense of the patterns, frequencies of various services. I did a table summarizing it:

Spreadsheet and pdf versions of the higher up also attached:
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^ Well said.
But brand sure to plow your Dutch uncle off.

We only need i around here.
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I meet that a lot of snakes were sacrificed for this service. All of those items behave some level of legitimacy (especially 44K and #109 EPR), but not at the prices they were being sold.
I am a trivial concerned that they added the #704 frigi-charge; the Prius a/c organization is sensitive to the oil used. If it's a POE oil, then it might be fine.
Since BG products were used, I would presume Dublin Toyota or Capitol Toyota?
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The coolant conditioner is the scary one. A member here once had a failure related to coolant, toyota investigated the coolant and institute coolant additive was added which crusade the coolant to thicken. The fellow member ate the cost of all repairs because toyota said the coolant was contaminated, the stealership that did the service was not responsible.
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For comparing, I brought my 2010 Prius in at 92,000 miles to my local Toyota dealer: accuse for Oil &filter, tire rotation and multi-bespeak inspection: $55.00. They didn't advise annihilation else.
So,I exercise believe you were ripped off. How long did they have it in the store?

If annihilation, I wonder if my dealer'due south brief inspection may miss something but the Prius still runs perfectly. I plan to ask about details of their restriction inspection at the next oil alter. When I get to 120,000 miles and spark plugs are due to be changed, I will bring information technology to a well respected hybrid specialist elsewhere in my land and find out what they recommend at that mileage.
My mom was Dutch, had a lot of married sisters...
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For $55, they changed the oil and filter, topped off the washer fluid, aired upwards the tires and handed your keys back to you.
The poor soul who received this job probably got paid .2 or .iii hr and could care less about the condition of your automobile. And service writers know that customers who merely asking oil changes rarely buy annihilation else. So, they tell their techs to not look too hard...especially if it was not your first time in that location.

If you pay for one of their "overpriced" small-scale services, then the tech may become paid enough to await over your car a bit more thoroughly.
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i'm at 65k and 90 months. i discover it astonishing that this car doesn't need any major service until 100k or 10 years
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"...you're sending him on a wild goose hunt. "
I'm NOT sending him on a wild goose hunt simply because it's a separate booklet.
It was a Pocket-size error. I'll have 30 lashes with a wet noodle.

And some may think information technology's an "event-by-event maintenance explanation" merely it'south not. It informs you of
what to do at sure intervals. Y'all can choose to ignore or not exercise certain items, similar why would you
cheque the cabin air filter or engine air filter?????

All the maintenance things Most people Tin can practise, should they chose as well, unless they are physically unable too.
That book is NOT a details version of what SHOULD be done, like changing the transmission fluid.
It's plenty for the average possessor to understand what and when things should exist done.
But if they follow that schedule, every bit least, they should be in expert shape.
Yes it is.