Greetings from Dublin Irerland

dublintaxi · 03-07-2008, 02:52 AM

I drive a Taxi here in Dublin.
This car will be the taxi of the future as taxis spend 80% of their time stopped in traffic. At least here we do.
I do a blog at Dublin taxi.
So now you can follow my progress as I solve my Prius problems.

My car was imported directly by me through www.ibcjapan.jp.
A caution for you. Japanese drive on the left, so the cars are R/H drive.
All the displays are in Japanese and Toyota Ireland blanked me when I asked for help.
One thing about me is that I am not a quitter.
With your help we will do it.

Happy St. Patricks day.

EtN · 03-07-2008, 03:05 AM

Hi,
I'm in Cork and a new Prius owner as well. I have the manual but it's only in paper format. As for the Japanese display, I think it's encoded in the firmware of the display unit, a quick fix would be visiting your local scrapper (you're a taxi driver so you should have good motoring contacts!) and picking up a display from a broken Prius (there are instructions on the site on how to open the MFD). Alternatively, a new MFD. I don't know if the firmware is flashable but sure as hell Toyota IE won't do it (in the end you're using a parallel import so Toyota IE is losing money..).

Good luck!
Tony

03-07-2008, 02:52 AM	#1
dublintaxi Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dublin Ireland Posts: 2 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #5 Touring Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Greetings from Dublin Irerland I drive a Taxi here in Dublin. This car will be the taxi of the future as taxis spend 80% of their time stopped in traffic. At least here we do. I do a blog at Dublin taxi. So now you can follow my progress as I solve my Prius problems. My car was imported directly by me through www.ibcjapan.jp. A caution for you. Japanese drive on the left, so the cars are R/H drive. All the displays are in Japanese and Toyota Ireland blanked me when I asked for help. One thing about me is that I am not a quitter. With your help we will do it. Happy St. Patricks day.

03-07-2008, 03:05 AM	#2
EtN Nickel Metal Hydrate Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ireland Posts: 21 My Car: 2007 Prius Package: Base Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 1	Re: Greetings from Dublin Irerland Hi, I'm in Cork and a new Prius owner as well. I have the manual but it's only in paper format. As for the Japanese display, I think it's encoded in the firmware of the display unit, a quick fix would be visiting your local scrapper (you're a taxi driver so you should have good motoring contacts!) and picking up a display from a broken Prius (there are instructions on the site on how to open the MFD). Alternatively, a new MFD. I don't know if the firmware is flashable but sure as hell Toyota IE won't do it (in the end you're using a parallel import so Toyota IE is losing money..). Good luck! Tony

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