2008 Toyota Prius 160k miles see photo for dash indicators No issues outside a recent Cat Converter theft. Had it replaced by Toyota 1 year ago. Turned on the car this morning, starts up just fine, but I’m getting all these indicators on my dash. My first thought is hybrid battery. Any other ideas? If it is the hybrid battery, I don’t have $2-3k to drop to buy a new one as I’m a student and this is my only vehicle. Questions: 1) likely hybrid battery? 2) if it is the hybrid battery, am I literally out of luck here, or are the alternatives? Thanks so much.
Well as a college student, you may want to start and learn to do a little DIY to your car so you don't have to pay the big bucks when you need service. The maintenance light that's on, when was the last time you did maintenance on the car? Those lights just mean there's a problem detected, without knowing symptoms, you can't even guess at it.
welcome! there is no way to know. the lights can mean a thosand things. more importantly, they mean you have specific trouble codes to be read. as a college student, are you tech savvy? 50 bucks and a windows laptop can provide answers
About 6 months ago. It was a smooth maintenance and nothing out of the norm was detected. I haven’t seen that maintenance light on. All these lights are really just sudden. So I guess I should take it to the dealer and have them run diagnostics.
Yea I have a windows laptop. I can spend the $50 - is that for a self diagnostic program or something?
yes, you want mini vci and tech stream. you can search here for adviceon what to buy and how to use it. big learning curve, it's a bootleg chinese system. or you can pay a dealer $150 to read the codes
Chances are, those are the lights that come up with a hv battery failure. On a 2008, 14 years old, it wouldn't surprise me if that is the problem. But a quick read of the codes would tell you P0A80 or not
Looks like a nice low mileage car... If you take it to a Toyota Stealership they'll likely try to tell you to replace everything for $3K to $6K. But take it to a legit mechanic and in some case I've been able to fix it in five minutes for free due to a corroded plug going to the cooling fan. First step is to read the error codes so you know exactly what's wrong. Get yourself one of these devices so you can use an app on your phone like Dr. Prius app to read and clear error codes: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265484403768
