Check hybrid system stop vehicle

good day to All,

Im having a problem with my prius right now. My dash shows check hybrid system and when i press on the brake pedal, the power button light turns green. As i press it, its still green. But when i let go of the brake pedal it goes back to orange light on the power button. I had replaced the 12v battery and cleaned the throttle body with throttle cleaner and still same thing.

Anyone think that it will be my hybrid battery is the one acting up or the inverter as i read sfrom some other threads.

Please help.

Thanks.

Ahlvin

 

80,858 miles

 

The coolant is flowing. It just happened yesterday.

Code seen was 0901 and 0930. I think the hybrid battery is already dirty. I need to bring it to the dealer and i think it will be still covered.

Thank you for your reply though.

 

Good day Sir,

Not Nevada. Im in California and i dont have a pet that goes in and out of the car.

Also, ive learned from a guy who specialize hybrids that in time, the slot or the gaps between the battery cells accumelating dusts and hairs that doesnt allow the cells to breath and have room to juice up.

He charges $250 to clean the battery cells. If your car is under 150,000 miles or within 10 years. Dealership still covers it. But once the battery has been replaced, the warranty will be for 3 years or 65,000 miles.

Hope this infor help all the prius owners out there.

Thank you.

 

No worries.

Every 30k miles, the hybrid battery cooling fan needs to be cleaned. But i was thinking that since the fan spins slow, if i put a computer fan on the vent and the air going torwards the battery, the battery might get more dirtier fast since theres more air that is going in.

I do not know what to do yet. But if i have any update on this i will make a post.

Thanks replying.

Thank you.

 

Thank you for the info. My car is at the dealer right now and they called me earlier and told me that the technician drove it for 11 miles and everything seems to be fine. No erro message on the dash. So i told the guy who called me to try running it with A/C. He told me he’s stuck since no message on the dash is popping out. I told him to check and run a diagnostic to find out. Also, he told me that i should clean the hybrid fan. Lol.

Im still waiting for the end of day to what the dealer will say.

I will write an update to it.

Thanks guys.

 

Good day Members,

So after taking my car to toyota dealer, it came to my surprise when the person who was handling the case for my car called me after a day i brought the car in and he said “everything is fine so far, and no message on the dash board came out saying please check hybrid system” so i still insisted that i really saw the dash message of it and my car wouldnt run and once the engine starts, after a few seconds it will just die on me.

Before bringing to the dealer, i had just taken out both terminals of the small battery at the back and Cleaned the fin of the hybrid battery. Thats all. I didnt try to start it before taking it to the dealer and i couldve saved the towing money that day. Lol.

Thats all i did when everything started working back to normal. Until now that it has been like 2-3 months that im not getting any problems.

Hope this helps and until now this issue is still a big question mark for me to what the resolution of that warning message.

 

Good day Sir,

The fin is the little fan where its sucking air from the vent of the hybrid battery to keep it cool. Its located where the vent is. You have to take out the vent panel and alot more stuff to get to it. Its attached to somewhat like an induction plastic that goes straight to the hybrid battery.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

 

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the insights though.

Will those codes come out on an ob2 scanner?

 

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the advise.

When i brought my car to the dealer all the history was lost per toyota because i had unhooked the accessory battery the reason that the history was gone? Then i said why is the mileage still there if it get reset? Lmao. Wish that the mileage had reset too. Ha ha.