2005 Prius dead

2005 prius with 190k,,,,,,wishing to get 300k.

Started car, ( let ac cool down car) walked in house, returned to car after 25 minutes, backed out of driveway, drove down the block, Prius stopped all systems dark.....12 v battery was dead, towed car to dealer.

Dealer had car for a week, burnt through several 12v batteries tring to figure out cause of drain. Inverter damaged, wiring harness damaged, main battery damaged. Estimate 7k for repair of everything...Ugh. Yes I should have been reading the chat from 7 years ago... They did play with it for 10 days.. The orange Prius c loner has been fun.


Went to sales after shop was closed.
So the sales folks offer me us$3500 for my dead Prius as a trade-in...which still doesn't run (I visited it on its death bed).

Thoughts?

 

New Jersey...

The only thing I think I could have done wrong was turn the ac on and let the car cool down for maybe 20 minutes (I was thinking I would be right back outside). When I walked back to car and drove off all the badness happened within 100 ft of my house.

 

OK--back to week one--these are all the potential contributing causes with the car/battery and inverter back to day 1. at 498 miles I ran the battery to near zero discharge because I ran out of fuel--made it to gas station on battery only. Drove down hill battery charged to 100% after first fuel fill up. (I thought I could drive 500 miles on a tank of fuel)
2. At 75K I left the 12 V discharged because I left the dome light on--car jmped all is well
3. At 100 K ran our of fuel --battery discharge to near zero-stopped fueled up--battery recharged by itself
4. At 125 K I left the 12 V discharged because I left the dome light on--car jumped all was well
5. At 170L-- intermittent red triangle of death comes on for a few seconds... I noticed that "oil" shows on screen I get oil change all is well
6. Again--At 176K-- intermittent red triangle of death comes on for a few seconds... I noticed that "oil" shows again (once) on screen I get oil change all is well
7. Again--At 182K-- intermittent red triangle of death comes on for a few seconds... I noticed that "oil" shows again (once) on screen I get oil change all is well
8. same day...Listed to radio while getting oil change--12 V drawn low. Car does not turn over. For Third time--car jumped--test 12V at the oil change garage--all was fine with charge.
9. At185K Dog needed to go to vet so I cooled the car off w A/C while parked (10 minutes or so)
10. At 185K+ hour latter took dog from the vet--let car sit with A/C to cool it down again (10 minutes or so)
11. At 185K+ Drove home-- battery was >40%
12. Next morning I did the AC thing again-- car does not want to move
13. Wait 5 seconds try and try again. car moves goes out of drive drives gfeet everythign goes blac,
14. call wife--she deals with AAA tows car to Toyota. I get on a plane to California
15. Dealer says 12 V low.. replaces. calls back second 12 V drained. calls back says they will need a while.
16-20. Service attempts to diagnose problem continues to drain 12V batteries. Comes back with diagnosis that inverter, main battery and wiring harness are all damaged.
21. I return from California.--dealer offers $3500 on trade in after telling us the service repairs are $7K and car is selling for $5,500 in similar markets.

that's about all I remember. should have been on the forum step 2-21/

 

No... When the red trainge showed the words oil and/or an oil can showed on the nav screen! It would stay on for a millisecond and dissappear..... Yes I will never listen to the radio at the oil place again.. Good suggestion! The guys at the oil place tested the battery.... Was fine ....no codes were provided... I would have grabbed the, but the car was "dark" even after AAA tried to jump it....they could not.

 

I have been changing my oil ever 5000k.. I stopped checking it in between changes.. Bad habit..but the true oil light never went on.


I will get the codes

 

I have been changing my oil ever 5000k.. I stopped checking it in between changes as it was not low when I checked it.. Bad habit..but the true oil light never went on. The triangle thing would last a flas of the eye. By the time the tone rang i would look over and the the triangle was gone.


I will get the codes

 

With 50 mile trips to work each way the fill ups will be a little more frequent than that. Although I could charge up at work for free as we have four bays to plug in.

 

That would explain the guilt I feel. I did not think you could run the a/c unless you were in ready mode though.

 

Codes:

P0A09

P0A08, P0A0F

The following show up because of the top three are on the report

P3190
U0293
C1259
C1310
U0293
B1421
B1260