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literally a fish
Oct 2, 2014

German officer Johannes Bolter peeks out the hatch of his Tiger I heavy tank during a quiet moment before the Battle of Kursk - c:1943 (colorized)
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some texas redneck posted:

The battery packs really do seem to be luck of the draw in terms of the originals holding up.

This is because generally when a pack dies it's not the whole pack that's dead, it's one or two weak cells that sabotage the rest of the pack. Hence why there were a few brief years (before a bunch of mechanics worked out how to do it) where you could buy 2gen Priuses with "bad" batteries for $fuckall, drop $150 on two new cells for the pack, and carry on.

Unfortunately as I mentioned a bunch of people have worked out that you can do this with almost no knowhow as long as you have a step by step guide, so the market for cheap prii has been bought up.

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