Learn something new everyday.. SKS

[Jabber]

I went to my official training meeting yesterday for the Prius. Didn't learn a whole lot of new things as most of it is already known by the PC posters here.. kudos to you.

But, I did learn something about the SKS system, whether it is a 1 door or 3 door system. If you press and hold the lock and unlock buttons together for 4-5 seconds, the car will beep twice, two times (beep beep.....beep beep). Everytime you touch the driver's door now, all the doors and the rear hatch will unlock. Thought that was kind of cool and a way around the 1 door SKS problem of having to use the remote to pop the hatch.

They also mentioned that on the gen 2 Prius, if you hold down the lock and panic buttons, it will do the same thing, but I haven't confirmed that.

[firepa63]

It's in the Owner's Manual...

[Jabber]

Ok. Sorry for bringing it up. I just thought that there might be someone who hasn't read the owners manual.

[DaveinOlyWA]

Originally Posted by Jabber

Ok. Sorry for bringing it up. I just thought that there might be someone who hasn't read the owners manual.

thanks for bringing it up.

at 100+ pages, i'm sure several things are in the owner's manual. its great to be reminded of some of the programming options available since most people would only look thru the manual to look up something they needed help with. in this case, they would only know about the option if they stumbled upon it.

posting this will probably encourage more people to look at it. hopefully, they will also post what they found to be cool about the new Pri's

[a priori]

Originally Posted by Jabber

Ok. Sorry for bringing it up. I just thought that there might be someone who hasn't read the owners manual.

Jeff,

It is part of just about every answer to a PriusChat question. Somewhere in the manual the issue is covered. Many times, however, the manual either isn't clear or the particular "answer" isn't something easily discovered in a review of the index. This is definitely the situation with the SKS system.

If you've read some of the other, related threads lately, you'll find I embarassed myself rather dramatically by making an assumption about the SKS. In a thread about setting the TPMS, I advised folks they could find the TPMS "Set" button by feeling under the driver's side dash. All they had to do, I said, was find the ridge with a button to the left and a button to the right. The left button is the TPMS. The right button, or so I said, was the SKS button. Wrong!

In the Gen2, that is the case. With the Gen3, though, the SKS was changed, to the benefit of most of us. Too many people had left their cars parked for weeks without disabling the SKS. The manual advised it, and the button was there, but people didn't read the manual and/or didn't get a good briefing from their sales people. In the end, the little 12V battery would be drained by the SKS's constant searching for the key fob.

This issue has been handled by an auto shut down of the SKS. I forget the "delay" time (it's in the manual), but I think it is about one week. If you don't bring the key fob to the car for the period of that "delay" the SKS automatically disables. I believe the SKS will restart as soon as you open the car using either the key or by pressing the unlock button on the key fob. It may scare some of us who had the Gen2 (and haven't read the manual), but I think most people would reach for the key fob as soon as they find the car doesn't open using the SKS.

The other button under the dash? The one to the right? That only exists in the Prius V, apparently. It is the "Off" switch for the Pre-Collision system (sometimes referred to as the Pre Crash system). If people are completely confused by the "buttons under the driver's dash" concept, here is a photo of the Prius V under dash:

[dogfriend]

Originally Posted by Jabber

They also mentioned that on the gen 2 Prius, if you hold down the lock and panic buttons, it will do the same thing, but I haven't confirmed that.

Smart Key System

[DaveinOlyWA]

Originally Posted by a priori

Jeff,




The other button under the dash? The one to the right? That only exists in the Prius V, apparently. It is the "Off" switch for the Pre-Collision system (sometimes referred to as the Pre Crash system).

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man oh man!! every thread i go, you are talking about this!!... i have a tinge of regret every single time!!

now, i have to go out and play with my sunroof to get rid of that feeling!! so stop it already!!

[Blind Guy]

Great

[Blind Guy]

Great Post!

David (aka Blind Guy)

[Jabber]

I still find that as much as I supposedly know about the car, there are little things that I didn't know. It was almost a full year before I found the little drawer under the center console

I'm sure it is in the owners manual also, but I wasn't aware of the 15 second time limit on the lane keep assist either. I'll have to read through the owners manual eventually...

And the distance for the radar cruise is 160 feet, 130 feet, and 100 feet...

I'm an absolute sucker for information that 1 out of 2,000 people will ask me I guess.