AQuach

My Gs450h is 1100 miles over 100k miles and Lexus is trying to get me to pay $8000 for a new traction battery. Apparently the CARB extended warranty only applies to Toyota, ironically they get 10 years/150K mile warranty.

So essentially dont buy a Lexus hybrid because they dont get the same extended warranty like Toyotas.

Does anyone know of someone selling remanufactered Lexus batteries?

ISFjimmy

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If I were you, I'd fight it. Take it up to Lexus corporate.

Stoodo

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Try another dealer... Some are better than others when going to bat for you. Some don't even try.

Joeb427

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Corporate will probably pay at least part of the cost which will be help..

AQuach

They did reduce the price but its still over $4000. Seems like bad goodwill for a car that is 1100 miles over warranty to charge that much.

Joeb427

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Sucks but better than nothing like some other auto manufacturer would give you.

ISFjimmy

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Keep on fighting!

ibidu1

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Have you guys ever thought about opening your batteries and testing each cell and replacing just the dead cell? They do for the prius and only cost them $37 bucks a cell vs replacing the whole unit.

ISFjimmy

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That's awesome! Nice find. I would most definitely go this route first as I am a DIY kinda guy. But, where would we buy the single cells?

OP, I found this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2007-2008-LEXUS-GS450H-HYBRID-BATTERY-/121158025500?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item1c3594c11c&vxp=mtr
which is these guys: http://www.highvoltagesolutionz.com/

I just found them online so I don't know who they are but they seem to offer a 18-36 month warranty. Again, I don't know who they are so buy at your own risk!

Does anyone know how long the battery is warrantied for if you have it replaced at the dealer, like mine was?

ibidu1

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Open your battery up and experiment! I dont see why toyota/lexus would use a different style cell battery in their hybrids, and prius batteries are plentiful as the batteries are only $36 ea cell

Even if it was slightly different maybe you can mod it a bit to make it fit. You would be saving a ton of money

http://www.ebay.com/sch/?_nkw=prius%...d=532812213340

ISFjimmy

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That's great! My battery was just replaced about 2k miles ago and paid out of pocket by the previous owner ($6k!). I plan on keeping this car forever so when the battery DOES go out again, I will def experiment.

If anyone in the DFW area has a gs450h with a bad battery and wants to try this, I am more than willing to help anytime!

AQuach

got lucky and Lexus agreed to replace the battery as good will. However the standard battery needed replacing and that sucker costs $550.

ISFjimmy

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I knew it was possible to have it replaced by them if you bugged them enough!

Also, the standard battery can be bought at just about any auto parts store.

XxGoKoUxX

that's an expensive standard 12v batt LOL!

AQuach

was breathing a sigh of relief and figured $500 was less that $5000