Hybrid Battery Issue?

Well as a college student, you may want to start and learn to do a little DIY to your car so you don't have to pay the big bucks when you need service. The maintenance light that's on, when was the last time you did maintenance on the car?

Those lights just mean there's a problem detected, without knowing symptoms, you can't even guess at it.

 

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there is no way to know. the lights can mean a thosand things. more importantly, they mean you have specific trouble codes to be read. as a college student, are you tech savvy? 50 bucks and a windows laptop can provide answers

 

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or you can pay a dealer $150 to read the codes

 

Chances are, those are the lights that come up with a hv battery failure. On a 2008, 14 years old, it wouldn't surprise me if that is the problem.

But a quick read of the codes would tell you P0A80 or not

 

Looks like a nice low mileage car... If you take it to a Toyota Stealership they'll likely try to tell you to replace everything for $3K to $6K. But take it to a legit mechanic and in some case I've been able to fix it in five minutes for free due to a corroded plug going to the cooling fan.

First step is to read the error codes so you know exactly what's wrong. Get yourself one of these devices so you can use an app on your phone like Dr. Prius app to read and clear error codes: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265484403768