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Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by jiminredondo, Nov 11, 2005.

  1. jiminredondo

    jiminredondo New Member

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    This is my first post and I hope I am doing it correctly.

    I have an 05 Prius. When I park and shut the car off, the dome lights come on inside the car. This annoys me because sometimes I am just parking and waiting to pick up one of my kids and I don't want the lights on. Is there a way to override this? I checked in the manual and found nothing.
     
    #1 jiminredondo, Nov 11, 2005
  2. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Turning the switch to OFF?

    Other options:

    1) Go to ACC mode
    2) Lock all doors
     
    #2 Tideland Prius, Nov 11, 2005
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    Welcome, your post looks fine to me. Well there is the switch on the light itself. It has door, on, and off. If you turn it off the light will not come on when you open the door or shut down the car. The light in the back seat has the same switch. I don't know of a way to keep it from coming on when you shut down and still working when you open the door. Just have to use the switch I think.

    Edit: tideland prius' answer is better than mine I didn't know that either-I think I really missed a lot in the owners manual I need to reread the whole thing
     
    #3 tumbleweed, Nov 11, 2005
  4. KMO

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    I pop it into ACC mode (and listen to the radio). Alternatively, just wait - it'll go off again.

    PS - why oh why oh why can't you go directly from READY to ACC?
     
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    If you are staying in the car why bother to Power Off? I usually just set there and wait. Yes, the ICE will occasionally start but if you have nothing turned on the amount of fuel used is very small and it keeps the ICE/Exhaust at the right temperature so you don't take the big milage hit you get when doing a cold start (not a temerature cold start but a computer cold start).

    Besides. I like to listen to the radio and I'd perfer not to have the 12V battery run down.
     
    #5 mehrenst, Nov 11, 2005
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    The radio uses very little power and will not drain the battery. Besides, the car will automatically shut itself down after 1 hour in ACC mode.

    KMO, the only car I can think of right now that goes from "READY" (i.e. engine running) to ACC is the new 3 Series. When you pop the fob into the dash, it goes to ACC mode immediately. So, based on that I can assume that when you shut off the engine using the "Engine Start Stop" button, you'll go into ACC mode.
     
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    jiminredondo, if you want the interior lights to come on when you open the doors, but not come on when you turn the car off, ask your dealer to change the way the interior lights operate. With the hand scanner, the dealership can change setting "I/L ON/ACC OFF" which is described as "Function to light the interior light when the ignition switch is operated from ACC to LOCK." The choices for this setting are ON and OFF with the default as ON.
     
    #7 8AA, Nov 12, 2005
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