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05 cant read trouble codes

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by balmeral, Mar 31, 2011.

  1. balmeral

    balmeral Junior Member

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    I have a 2005 prius and I got a scanguage to read the codes. I have two lights on my dash. One is the check engine and the other is the (O) light. I think this is something to do with the regen braking. Anyways when I run the scanguage it says no codes found. What type of scanner would be able to pull up all prius codes? Thanks!
     
    #1 balmeral, Mar 31, 2011
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    Probably the Toyota one is needed... you may need it to talk to the skid control ecu. I think the scangauge only sees the main ecu but there are lots in the prius.
     
    #2 BAllanJ, Mar 31, 2011
  3. richard schumacher

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    Yup. There are many proprietary codes that a generic ScanGauge won't see or report.
     
    #3 richard schumacher, Apr 2, 2011
  4. balmeral

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    Are there any scanners that CAN read these codes? The dealer wants 70$ to read these codes and I would rather spend the 70 on something I can keep using to read the codes.
     
    #4 balmeral, Apr 25, 2011
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    seilerts Battery Curmudgeon

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    AutoEnginuity will read these codes, but costs $400. You can jumper the data link connector to get skid control or air bag codes.
     
    #5 seilerts, Apr 25, 2011
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    #6 balmeral, Apr 25, 2011
  7. seilerts

    seilerts Battery Curmudgeon

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    Not quite, you need the Proline connector with a Toyota add-on. They only sell it on their website, autoenginuity.com
     
    #7 seilerts, Apr 25, 2011
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