Inverter? HV Battery?

I have a 2006 Prius I bought from a used dealership about a month ago. It had 169k miles on it. He said he had replaced the hybrid battery with a refurbished one about a month before I bought it and he replaced the 12V right after I bought it because I was having an issue with the electric park (which seems to have fixed that issue). It has about about 172k miles now.


Driving it yesterday and the red triangle came up and the screen said "problem" then the vsc light and some others came on, car had no acceleration. At first the accelerator wasn't working at all. Turned it off and let it sit, restarted it and it would just barely accelerate, wasn't kicking over to the electric motor, it stalled and died a couple times, and the a/c stopped blowing cold air. Managed to get it home like that. It would get up to about 50mph but that's it and it would take a long time to get there. When I got it home it had a strong electrical smell coming from under the hood. It had been close to 100 degrees lately and I drive it about 125 miles a day and run the a/c all day with a lot of parked idling. I let is set overnight and it seems okay so far today after about an hour of driving but I still have the red triangle. I checked the inverter coolant tank and it has good turbulence.


Any thoughts on what it could be? Thanks.

 

I took it to the dealership today since they are the only ones in the area that will even look at it. Dreading the bad news tomorrow.

 

Dealership said it was the hybrid battery. Quoted $2700 plus tax to replace it. I bought this car a month ago under the impression the battery had been replaced a month before I bought it.

 

Unfortunately local lemon laws don't cover used vehicles. Especially "sold as is" vehicles. Battery was luckily under warranty. BUT got it replaced and drove 3 miles down the road and the same thing happened. Here are the error codes from the dealership.

 

Yes that is from the dealership.

 

After it did it again right after I had the battery switched I was able to restart the car a few times and it cleared and has running fine for the last four days with no issues (about 100 miles a day) today drove it about 10 miles and suddenly same issue again.

 

Is it at all possible that it could be a bad relay? Because I do have the issue of when I turn my headlights on at night I loose my dash lights. I also one time had no headlights at all and had to wiggle the relay around for them to come back on.

 

I traded an 05 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo with 210k miles they gave me 2k for it and I gave 2k cash on top.

 

Problem is they will charge me another $250 again for another service trip on top of the work I have to do that you described.