Stuck in "P"

it's 08:30 here in the land of OZ, wife and self in G3 heading off to the shops BUT Prius she NO GO, tries to go, backward or forward but parking pawl seems to be engaged. I've tried everything I know including 12V battery check. Please send help.
Barry Jones

 

Yeah Spidey, it's a beautiful sunny morning here, about 23degrees C except my mood is rather stormy. All seems normal, release park brake, foot on service brake, push button, get "READY", shift to R, car jacks up, shows power going to traction motor but we don't move. Same for D. Since first post I've disconnected the 12v but still no go.

 

HHmmmm, you obviously don't know my wife!

 

It's sitting in my garage, flat as a strap. I'm now starting to wonder how anyone can move it even to get it onto a flat tow.

 

I can rock the car enough to see the rotors move within the calipers so I think I can discount a brake problem...unless the power brake actuator has a mind of it's own.

 

Grumpy, all of that, I am the only driver and I never engage PARK unless prompted.

 

Now wondering if there is a fuse for the park solenoid (if it is a solenoid)?

 

Don't now think it's the park pawl as I'm pretty sure I can hear it clacking in and out. Gonna jack up each wheel in turn to find the culprits.

 

Spiderman gets the gong:cheer2: I'd checked the front brake rotors for rotation, both free, LH rear free and because it's difficult to check, I didn't bother with the RH rear. Well, I've lived my whole life by Murphy's Law and when I jacked up the RH rear, it's frozen SOLID.
So solid that I could not free it with any sort of leverage I could get onto it.....sooo, fired up Prius, selected R and gunned it, still doesn't move...gunned some more, brake releases, Prius jumps out of garage at a great rate of knots (lucky the door was up) and except for some scraping noise from RH rear everything is hunky dory. Yes Spidey, we,ve had over a week of rain here and last sunday I washed car,PAYING ATTENTION TO HOSING WHEELS, and it hasn't been used until this AM. So there, thanks to all respondants my blood pressure has normalised and we're off to the shops...thankyou Prius Chat.

 

Well we didn't get to the shops, too much scraping so to cut a long story short..pulled off back brakes, found pads bonded to discs, scraped offa disc, not easy, re assemble, now fine. Why would pads decide to bond to discs, admittedly they were wet.