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Hybrid battery dead?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by ryguy, Jun 30, 2023.

  1. ryguy

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    I pay pretty close attention to the activity on my dash from the hybrid battery charging screen while I'm driving. I noticed some out-of-the-ordinary charging patterns going on, for maybe a little less than a week before the red triangle of death showed up. During this time prior to the triangle showing up, the car would go from nearly a full HV battery charge when parked to being fully depleted when I would drive it the next day basically. It would go from around 4 bars on startup in the morning to fully depleted within 200 feet. Now when red triangle showed up, the car still ran but now the charging patterns were much more insane. It would charge all the way to full, then still be trying to charge the battery more at a completely full charge. Would go from full bars to 1 in an extremely short amount of time. Just completely wacky charging patterns being displayed but still driveable. I'd guess I put about 30 miles on it or so before the car just wasn't charging anymore at all. I drove to the store, came back out and it was showing 1 bar and did not move from that 1 bar. No charging at all being shown. Car felt like the emergency brake was engaged while trying to accelerate up to about 30, then at 30-35 or so it would be somewhat normal feeling, but still no activity from the battery, just 1 bar and nothing. Car has 190k on it but the battery was replaced at 150 with a refurb about a year and a half ago. Car just recently had the inverter coolant pump go bad, which I replaced, about 1000 miles ago.

    I did get codes during that first week while hybrid battery was still somewhat normal(triangle had just come on). Codes were C1300 and C1310. Does this behavior sound similar to anyone else's experience? Something else of note is that the blower on the passnger side backseat has come on full blast without me doing anything to it. Had another prius with a bad battery that did the exact same thing. I'm pretty certain it's the hybrid battery but is there anything else it is likely to be?
     
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    That’s a long read for a simple answer
     
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    Who says I read it all. It’s only like the 12,000 post about a bad G2 battery.
     
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    Yes this is exactly how a failing cell in the battery is super fast charge and discharge rates an engine runs almost always with lower power,mileage drops .I just had to put a new cell in mine (third time) if you have Dr prius app and a OBD LINK you can watch the cells on a bar graph and see which one of the pairs is failing (12 pairs for 24 cells) . Again you will see very high bar graph during charge and very low under accel/load(will change fron green to red/yellow depending how drastic voltage difference is to the good cells. The monitor on display is referencing the worst cell which is why you see the drastic change.

    If you know someone who can change the bad cell and has some good replacements you can swap get it working again. I have a 2007 pack that had 127k on it (car has 205k) in my 04 for 4 yrs and have had to do 3 cell swaps, once changed it lasts about a year with mpg back in the 50s.

    SM-G960U ?
     
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    Appreciate that detailed response. I have a lifetime warranty with green bean battery so we'll see how that goes. Either way, I'm going to post a detailed review of that process here on the forums for people to know what they're getting themselves into -- good or bad.
     
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    module, not cell.
    Blocks, not cell.
    You have more than just P1300 and P1310 so you need to get a proper OBD scanner in order to get the codes that GB will need to validate your claim.