[sandoze]

I know all cars can’t be perfect but as a 2010 Prius owner (I probably shouldn’t complain given it’s 15 years old) it has had several well documented issues that never prompted a recall.

I was hit with a bad oil gasket that causes the engine to burn oil. It’s so much work to replace their solution is to replace the entire engine. My solution is to keep putting oil in it. I was told by the dealer this is common over 70k miles.

The steering controls (heat, volume, cruise) stopped working pretty early on. It was well over $1k to fix, mostly labor. Apparently the connection they use is prone to failure.

Leaves me wondering if my next car will be a Toyota. Maybe if they adopted Apple CarPlay.

That being said, batteries are still good and I’ve been pretty impressed how low the maintenance has been.

[fy20]

Another 2010 owner here. I'm at 280,000km, and other than burning some oil everything still works fine. Usually by this age cars here are pretty rusty, but so far my Prius has held up well. There's a few spots of surface rust in places, but nothing serious.

We had to replace the inverter a few years ago (apparently there was a software update to prevent this failure, but we didn't have it), but even when that broke the car was still driveable, just the ICE engine was running all the time.

The biggest issue I've had is with brakes. Three times now the rear pads have got rusty and I've had to replace both the pads and rotors. My theory is that as they are hardly used, they don't get hot enough to dry out any moisture. Last year I rebuild the rear calipers, so let's see if that fairs any better.

[michtzik]

Have you (or any other 2010 Prius owner) heard about or experienced problems with the brake booster / actuator assembly?

I think the issues might be described in this article: https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2019/toyota-brake-booster...

[mplanchard]

FWIW they have adopted carplay. I have a 2019 prius prime, which was I think the last year before they swapped over. My neighbor has a 2024 model, and it has resolved my two main complaints about my car, in that it has carplay and they have three seats in the back now instead of two.

[ezfe]

All Toyotas have CarPlay for years now

[philwelch]

My 2024 Corolla supports Apple CarPlay.

[brianbest101]

Good news! They have CarPlay on all their vehicles now