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  1. ChapmanF replied to the thread Cylinders misfire while in park in idle only.

    Load is the amount of work the engine is being called on to do. Increasing the load (say, by calling for more charging current out of a...

    Mar 20, 2026 at 9:41 AM

  2. ChapmanF replied to the thread EGR Valve Plug Type/ ID.

    ^ This. Where that page describes the wiring diagram, it also links to posts that demonstrate how to use that diagram to find a...

    Mar 20, 2026 at 9:33 AM

  3. ChapmanF replied to the thread How to remove the Prius 2012 abs cylinder pin.

    The words 'actuator' and 'accumulator' are just similar enough to invite confusion. That animal is (some of a disassembled) actuator...

    Mar 20, 2026 at 9:28 AM

  4. ChapmanF replied to the thread Does it make sense to replace front bearings at 95K miles?.

    Yeah, in my gen 1 by 238k miles I had replaced only two, and those years and tens of thousands of miles apart. People sometimes get...

    Mar 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM

  5. ChapmanF replied to the thread AC compressor locked up.

    Do you? Have you isolated which part has 'locked up'? With the belt removed, try turning (a) the pulley, and (b) the pressure plate in...

    Mar 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM

  6. ChapmanF replied to the thread Vaccine provocation.

    There was a website here that I had open in a tab for months and refreshed daily or so, which showed the utilization % of general and...

    Mar 19, 2026 at 4:47 PM

  7. ChapmanF replied to the thread Vaccine provocation.

    Some of the more heartbreaking stories I remember from fiveish years ago were the unvaccinated people who had said exactly that, from...

    Mar 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM

  8. ChapmanF replied to the thread What did you do to ur Gen III Prius today????.

    If rogue cops or ICE officers also stole cats, would that deter them?

    Mar 19, 2026 at 5:30 AM

  9. ChapmanF replied to the thread Car does not turn off.

    It could also have meant "around 10 volts or less", a common threshold for "completely drained" for a 12-volt lead-acid battery.

    Mar 19, 2026 at 5:26 AM

  10. ChapmanF replied to the thread Cold start : cuts out after ~7 seconds. Did this once every few months, but now totally dead..

    OT, but wasn't the designation NHWxx, not NWHxx?

    Mar 18, 2026 at 9:32 PM

  11. ChapmanF replied to the thread Car does not turn off.

    How is the combination meter (speed, odo, fuel, mpg, PRNDB) behaving?

    Mar 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM

  12. ChapmanF replied to the thread Repair Questions for the group - 2007 Prius.

    Have you seen anyone speculate as to any causal mechanism to explain it? That would be some tricky math to do, especially the part for...

    Mar 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM

  13. ChapmanF replied to the thread Cold start : cuts out after ~7 seconds. Did this once every few months, but now totally dead..

    I wonder if this description might be considered off by one. There is a sensor that's forward of the whole engine: that'd be the MAF...

    Mar 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM

  14. ChapmanF replied to the thread LED Headlights in 3rd Gen Prius!.

    Right, the OEM LED headlamps are purpose-built assemblies with non-replaceable LEDs in them—of course engineered by Toyota from the...

    Mar 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM

  15. ChapmanF replied to the thread Vaccine provocation.

    If you really still have yet to ever 'get' M or M or R, then the MMR vaccines have never had a chance to 'prevent' anything in the first...

    Mar 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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