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Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/prius/comments/1u8q803/

After reading y'all's comments, and a recommendation from my personal mechanic who got back to me, I went ahead and replaced the 12v battery and I also paid the $15 subscription for the unlimited tests on 3 vehicles with the Doctor Prius app. Thankfully I had a photo of the original receipt so I was able to get a 25% credit for still being within warranty on the old battery!

I've attached the screenshot of what I'm seeing in Doctor Prius, the cumulative Delta voltage has some big outliers so I'm thinking those 2 modules need replacing? Or do they all look bad? I'm debating just challenging myself to watch a few videos and personally swap out the bad modules with working ones from eBay and then balance them all. Is that worth doing based on the data I'm seeing in Dr. Prius?

Thanks in advance. I am keeping the car and I'll get her repaired, hopefully I can get another 100k miles out of her yet!

Edit: After driving a few min up and down my street all the cumulative Delta values increased, with the worst 2 remaining the same outliers as in the image above. The worst 2 had deltas of 5.65 and 6.21 while all the others are between 4.26 and 4.64.

I've been testing offering Goldbacks to merchants and waitstaff since getting started with Goldback in the last year, with mixed results (I don't live in a Goldback state).

Unfamiliar merchants refuse to take them, no surprise there, but the reception from waitstaff has been more positive. When I began the smallest denomination was the 1/2, which some servers would accept the first or second time they saw me for the novelty of it. But other servers refused and the ones that did accept at first would request cash in future visits. With the launch of the 1/4 Goldback I created a "pack" of money containing a $2 bill, a good condition half Dollar coin, and a 1/4 Goldback, and immediately my experience with waitstaff has changed.

First, I will lay out on the table my custom "wallet" with cards/cash/silver coins/Goldbacks each in their own sleeve and held together by a band, I will briefly explain the different options and give them an overview on Goldback and how it's a new privately issued currency containing real gold.

If it's close to a $5 tip I simply ask them, would they like a 1/2 Goldback (with a couple half dollars with the recent drop in Gold), a $5 bill, or a mixture? As I say mixture I pull out the "pack" and so far every time the waiter enjoys seeing the pack and requests it specifically.

I have given out this pack close to a dozen times over the last couple months (I don't eat out at sit down restaurants very often), and I have yet to have a server turn down the pack even on repeat visits to the same place. Sometimes servers will see their coworkers get it, and the next time I visit they get all excited "I finally got one!" referring to my pack.

The combined perceived rarity of the half Dollar coin and $2 Bill really make the multi pack containing the 1/4 Goldback appealing. I highly recommend giving this a try, the more hands we place Goldbacks in the more people will learn about the network and help it grow!