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Greetings from Dublin Irerland

Discussion in 'Newbie Forum' started by dublintaxi, Mar 7, 2008.

  1. dublintaxi

    dublintaxi New Member

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    Location:
    Dublin Ireland
    Vehicle:
    2005 Prius
    I drive a Taxi here in Dublin.
    This car will be the taxi of the future as taxis spend 80% of their time stopped in traffic. At least here we do.
    I do a blog at Dublin taxi.
    So now you can follow my progress as I solve my Prius problems.

    My car was imported directly by me through www.ibcjapan.jp.
    A caution for you. Japanese drive on the left, so the cars are R/H drive.
    All the displays are in Japanese and Toyota Ireland blanked me when I asked for help.
    One thing about me is that I am not a quitter.
    With your help we will do it.

    Happy St. Patricks day.
     
    #1 dublintaxi, Mar 7, 2008
  2. EtN

    EtN Irish-Italian Hybrid

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    I'm in Cork and a new Prius owner as well. I have the manual but it's only in paper format. As for the Japanese display, I think it's encoded in the firmware of the display unit, a quick fix would be visiting your local scrapper (you're a taxi driver so you should have good motoring contacts!) and picking up a display from a broken Prius (there are instructions on the site on how to open the MFD). Alternatively, a new MFD. I don't know if the firmware is flashable but sure as hell Toyota IE won't do it (in the end you're using a parallel import so Toyota IE is losing money..).


    Good luck!
    Tony
     
    #2 EtN, Mar 7, 2008
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