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Blown center consol?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by aolm, Dec 15, 2007.

  1. aolm

    aolm Junior Member

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    My entire center consol is dark… MFD, clock and radio. I believe I have checked every fuse in my 05 prius. My 12v outlets work fine. This was caused by accidentally shorting my on/off wire on my amp.

    Any ideas?
     
    #1 aolm, Dec 15, 2007
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    My entire center consol is dark… MFD, clock and radio. I believe I have checked every fuse in my 05 prius. My 12v outlets work fine. This was caused by accidentally shorting my on/off wire on my amp.

    Any ideas?
     
    #2 aolm, Dec 15, 2007
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    pay mechanic money?:eek:
     
    #3 fish_antlers, Dec 15, 2007
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    it may be a grounding problem.. then again.. maybe not.


    where did you pull the 12v switched power from?
     
    #5 V8Cobrakid, Dec 15, 2007
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  7. aolm

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    easy fix

    That thread makes is seem difficult to fix. My installer checked the fuses with a 12 v light pen attached to a ground wire. He checked the entire car in minutes by grounding the "pen" and then probing each fuse face left and right looking for a short. He did not need to pull an fuses. He found the bad 7 amp fuse and fixed it no charge. The fuse was under the steering wheel.

    One fuse controls the entire center console.

    I am glad to be back to full high power audio.
     
    #7 aolm, Dec 15, 2007
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    easy fix

    It was a bad fuse, fixed in minutes by my installer who has the right tools and knows what he is doing.
     
    #8 aolm, Dec 15, 2007
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    Fuse

    Nice to know that there is a fuse under the steering wheel. This may come in handy. Glad to hear everything is powered up and back to normal.
     
    #9 N3FOL, Dec 16, 2007
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    Re: easy fix

    Any idea which fuse was bad? i have same issue, checked every MFD related fuse. all appear good. MFD, Radio and Clock off. Everything else appears to be working.
    thx
     
    #10 Lloyd9, Apr 21, 2009
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    There are three fuses that supply power to the MFD:

    15A ECU-B
    7.5A ECU-IG
    7.5A ACC

    There are two fuses that supply power to the radio control head:

    15A DOME
    7.5A ACC

    Since you say that both the MFD and the radio are not powered up, check the 7.5A ACC fuse first.
     
    #11 Patrick Wong, Apr 21, 2009
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  12. Lloyd9

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    I located it as being the 7.5A ACC fuse
    No visual indication that the fuse was bad, but when a new one was used - it worked.
    Thanks
     
    #12 Lloyd9, Apr 21, 2009
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