2007 Prius with 203269 Miles AC Shut Off/Red Triangle Warning Light/Check Engine Light

Man I can't believe through all these antics going back and forth to these places and nobody including the owner tells any of these shop owners that you need to print out of the codes that the vehicle is giving to the technician to help him repair the car $2,400 at the dealer to fix the brakes a cracked radiator and whatnot is almost too good of a deal to be true so what was really done at the dealer if it was a real Toyota dealer this should be really good The paperwork should be extensive If you look up radiators and brake parts for this car like the actuator you would have spent most of that money at Toyota retail parts of the dealer so not sure what happened there and that's the last place for this car I can't believe Washington State is as backwoods as it sounding on paper I have trouble believing that but I guess not I have a friend that went out to Oregon and couldn't believe what she stepped into but that's another whole story so something here is not making good sense The air conditioning going out is a clue sounds like maybe an intermittent inverter pump which when it gets hot enough that will slow down charging immensely of your big battery while driving and things like that so if you're looking at your energy monitor you will be in the low blue possibly middle magenta lines on your battery display in the energy monitor section won't be charging like it normally does things like that your air conditioner is being cut off by the car on purpose to save overheating the inverter and damaging it while it's not being cooled properly The pink liquid in the middle jug between the engine and the silver top hybrid synergy drive inverter needs to be full it needs to be moving when you take the cap off door open in the car is ready something you'll hear the pump whirring that's proper now we need to see why the jug is not on the full mark it's okay to open it It doesn't come squirting out and hit the roof of the car anything like that It's not under that kind of pressure or heat even when it's real hot it's only about 130° nowhere near boiling or pressurized

 

It was hard to read that, but check the inverter cooling water pump located directly behind the driver side headlight. This pump circulates coolant through the electrical portion of the hybrid system. This pump often goes intermittent or fails completely, allowing the inverter to overheat. Sometimes it even blows the AM2 fuse, which will shut the car off. Quite often, intermittent AC operation is one of the first signs of this pump failing, and people end up spending big $$ chasing a ghost AC problem.