Prius 2012 head gasket

[pwuser15040259491]

I have a 2012 prius which I imported myself. It has run around 60k in Pak and total milage stands at 115k.. never had any check light or issue and i have maintained it well in time. It has travelled on hilly areas a lot.. Yesterday i took it to nathiagali and my car heated around ayubia and coolant came out of bottle .. i parked it and after 5 minutes when temperature of car settled i topped coolant bottle with mineral water. Car ran well after that till nathiagali and back till Islamabad too. In the morning car rattled at start for like 2 seconds .. youtube videos suggest that head gasked is gone but local mechanics whom i have taken my car to have said that it’s fine and i just have to change toyota’s lifelong coolant … anyone ever had this issue or aware of this gasket issue apparently on priuschat almost every prius owner had suffered this trouble.

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@Xulfiqar does this prius have electronic water pump?

[Xulfiqar]

The prius headgasket issue is well known and so is the coolant becoming corrosive in the engine and causing external leaks which causes airpockets in the engine.

Toyota coolant is not lifelong (its not a forever liquid) its a “Long Life” liquid.

Have it leak tested at a real proper car workshop, do not let a 30 saal tajurbaa do his tukka and andaaza on it.

Smaller Toyotas in general are quite poor in engine heat management when they are highly stressed.

[Xulfiqar]

This car has an electric pump for the inverter cooling loop, but an engine waterpump for its actual combustion engine.

[pwuser15040259491]

Thanks for your response.. can you recommend a workshop in rwp/isb which can carry out proper leak test cause I have shown it to 3 workshops yesterday and all were like you have to change coolant only and else everything is fine but yt videos suggest that if there’s rattle noise at start then head gasket is gone.