New owner needs HELP

Keyes Collision Center on Oxnard is a Prius certified shop. Give them a call (818-780-2000), they may be able to help you.

 

what side? left? right? check engine lights? any lights? any response at all upon trying to start? there is a collision sensor right next to the inverter that might have been tripped.

 

Could it be a simple 12volt issue? I.E. is the little battery dead?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hybrdman @ Aug 20 2007, 11:01 AM) [snapback]499121[/snapback]</div>

Put a motorcycle battery charger on the 12 V battery and let it charge for a few hours at less than 2 amps. Anything more will cause damage to the 12 V battery. You can charge/jump from under the hood on the right side there is a large black plastic cover for the batt conn. I agree with the charging thing. The HV battery has a fuse at the connector for the HV batt. under the back hatch area but i would not mess with that until you charge the 12 V battery. The actual 12 V batt is in the passenger side rear hatch area. Do you have a multimeter to measure the voltage?

 

sorry, we're on the other coast! sounds like we would do much better independently on your end of the country.

if there's no response at all that could be simple as the 12v battery. first check the connections at the battery in the hatch (passenger side). you can try charging it as listed above, or try to jump it. just make sure the jump is done correctly- reversing polarity can do major damage. good luck!

 

Okay, duplicate post. Having some problems with PriusChat right now.

For the access to the batteries, for now you'd probably have to fold down the rear seats, crawl in there, and lift the battery hatch panel out. The trunk hatch lifts out too, if you need to get to the spare tire or HV batteries. Not sure if there is a manual override, but I would think you could put a screwdriver in the hatch lift mechanism from the inside and release it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hybrdman @ Aug 19 2007, 11:36 AM) [snapback]498668[/snapback]</div>

This seems kind of obvious, but the high-voltage battery has an inertia switch like the air-bags, to shut off the voltage in case of an accident (as has been mentioned a couple times in response to worries about people cutting into the car to free someone after an accident). I'm not sure if these things auto-reset, but it would be worth checking.

 

i can't upload an attachment right now... go to john1701a.com and download the user guide HSD. check page 47 for instructions on the manual release.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hybrdman @ Aug 20 2007, 12:41 PM) [snapback]499176[/snapback]</div>

Tried to call you 3 times. 2 times I got a fax and one time I got an answering machine that barely let me give you my name before it shut off. If you read this before 7pm your time please don't call me back after 11pm eastern time.(maybe 7pm your time)

 

pop open the hood, open up the left side fuse box and there is a red cover that you can flip open for a jump,the positive wire from your jump source goes to this terminal and you can find any good clean part of the car or engine for the ground cable. then if the problem is the 12 volt battery the car should start right up, if the car does not start you can at pop open the hatch and take a look at the orange connecter that disables the high voltage battery. hope this helps you keep us posted.
I wish you were in the north east so I could take a look at the car myself. it could be something as small as just clearing the codes in the computer. some codes will prevent the car from starting.
good luck