Is this dash light supposed to flash whenever the car is off ?

Our car had been sitting for hours unused, it is now night time, I was walking near the car where it was parked and thought I heard a hum, I'm guessing that was the battery fan coming on automatically ? (it was evening and not hot outside)

Does the battery fan come on by itself in the evening even when it's not being charged ?

Anyhow, back to the main question: glancing inside the car I see a red light flashing on the dash display.

I had to search the manual to figure out what it was for, it was listed on page 83 of the manual.

If I am understanding the manual correctly, the light is supposed to keep flashing continuously whenever the car is off to show that the security system is working, and it stops flashing whenever the car is turned on.

Am I understanding that correctly ?

Here is a copy of that page:

 

Okay, thanks !!!!

As a new Prime owner I was "somewhat" freaking out hoping nothing was wrong with our new car when I saw that flashing light

It just seemed strange as I have never had a car where it was normal for a dash light to keep on flashing non-stop from the time the car is turned off until it is turned on again, even flashing for days if the car sits unused that long. I guess the drain on the battery is so small as not to be a concern.

Thanks for explaining that hum noise too, after having average cars before the Prime there are some new things I need to get used to

 

I think it would be better if it just flashed for about 30 seconds after the car was turned off, just long enough for the owner to know that system is working, I don't see what the reason is for it to keep flashing non-stop beyond that.

 

Fortunately where we park our car at home on our property we should not have any concerns, when we go somewhere to shop it is usually in a very public busy area where people trying that would be unlikely.

Thanks, so many things to learn about a Prime when you've never owned one before, when we picked up the car the salesman brought out a big stack of manuals, the big one and smaller ones, and joked saying something like "have all this read by tomorrow"

 

For now I just mostly educated myself on things I needed to know right away, been busy working on getting a canopy put up where we park the Prime, not as quick of a project as I hoped but it will be worth it first cleaned off the concrete parking area with a power washer (takes time) then I got the metal frame put up today, (too hot out to keep working today) next I need to mix concrete to fill concrete blocks with the legs inside one of the holes on each block (8 legs total) then paint the blocks and canopy legs black to match the outdoor decor. Then I can add the cover to the top.

Thanks, This is our first Toyota, the cars we had before didn't have a constantly flashing light.

Thanks !

This is our first Toyota so I can't answer your question.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but why would we want to turn off the alarm system, I would want that anti-theft system active.

As far as the flashing light it is my understanding that it is normal for it to keep flashing simply to show that the theft deterrent system is active and on, and not that any alarm went off.

 

Thanks, it helps to get clarification when you're learning your very first Toyota, kinds feels like your back in elementary school as far as cars

Okay, thanks, so the Prime has the system that will blare the horn if it thinks something is trying to get in the car, if so I hope it doesn't get set off too easily when there's no problem, I don't remember us ever having that feature in any of our cars in the past.