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  1. Obviously you refering to the HV battery. If you have the service some at Toyota they do a free hv battery test every year which carries a 12 month warranty, this goes on for 10 year. If you have a hv check before the end of the 10th year the warranty goes for another year, effectively 11 years. If you choose to have service done outside Toyota then the cost of hv check is £40. The actual battery is made up of cells which are replaceable, so if one or two cells go down they can be replaced individually. There are now businesses specialising in replacing individual cells, either new or 2nd hand, so to keep costs down. however, when I was doing my research into Toyota hybrid cars, I never saw a car for sale that said “new battery fitted recently” like you do when you replace an exhaust system, fit new brakes all round, 4 new tyres etc; never. And some of my research was on American sites where 250k miles was not unusual, add that with the fact batteries generally don’t like excessive heat (nor cold) meant to me hv batteries are long lasting. Obviously someone is having failures of whole lot or individual cells, or else those specialists businesses would not exist, but failure is not a “common” thing like clutch, alternator, starter motor etc, all of which Toyota hybrids don’t have. Some othe manufacturers hybrids have those things, Toyota doesn’t. the fact Toyota hv batteries have effectively a 11 year warranty (with annual checks) shows they have full confidence in their hv batteries. Remember the Prius hv cars have now been on the uk market 20 years, the hv parts seem to have been well engineered in the first place. Obviously there will be differences in design of the Prius hv system and aYaris hv system but the same ethos will be behind the systems I would think - I never yet heard anything bad about the Yaris hv system like I not heard anything bad about the Prius and other model hv systems. hope it helps.
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  2. Just about to get my first Toyota Yaris Hybrid and was wondering if anyone has any advice about keeping one long term, will the batteries last ok? or need replacing after say 12 years? any tips or advice would also be appreciated.
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  3. Welcome to the club.
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  4. Hi Steve, Welcome to the club. Was the people carrier a Toyota?
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  5. On the centre MFD, look for these options:
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  6. I don't have an answer to that question, but, you might like to try the apps 'Hybrid Assistant' (free) or 'Doctor Prius' (free - but payment for further features). The second one offers battery testing as well, but at extra cost.
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  7. Thank you Joe, good to know 👍
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  8. Yeah i bet it will be interesting to see how different it is!
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  9. Hi If he had locked the centre diff then the car would have driven off just fine. And yes, permanent four wheel drives should not be tested on rollers. Leo
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