Need help getting blink codes

My mother practically lived at Tuscaloosa Toyota she loved it over there and they loved her when we moved to Birmingham things were quite different and quite different charges and the whole nine Not as bad as they can be further up to East Coast and North Carolina in places but it got kind of ridiculous I might could find you a person that could do your actuator swap for you in the Birmingham area I need to make some calls I still have family there and I'm used to be back and forth pretty regularly but it's been about 2 years. My family's over in mountain Brook

 

The Toyota dealer should just be able to give you a printout of the main codes when they run the test they should be able to send it to your phone whatever it's not rocket science and from there even if they've lost their hybrid expert they should have somewhat of a clue and if you can get that on your phone from them and post it here you'll get a myriad of answers so don't let the break actuator worry you too much if the brakes are working fine you're okay mine worked with the lights on for 2 years and then all of a sudden the brake pedal got as hard as old breaks without a brake booster or power brakes 2 ft Flintstones action. But if you don't have that yet just keep driving it's not going to come on and scare you like that you'll find this out like backing out of the driveway or pulling into park all of a sudden you need two feet to stop the car going two miles an hour and then you might want to park it but you could get it home I've done in a million times is it dangerous in Birmingham probably not too much.

 

The brake system is kind of complicated and a lot of different things can happen to it. That's why it has around 200 different trouble codes, though they all light the same warning lights on the dash.

The best predictions of how Suzy's brakes will behave would come from comparing the experience of other people who have Suzy's trouble codes, not just who have the same dash lights on. There won't be many of those necessarily; Suzy's C1241 / C1257 combination isn't one I've seen here a lot.

The combination suggests that there might be an electrical supply issue that might be fixable short of actuator replacement. If it can be, I think the car is likely to be better to drive with it fixed.

 

At least she has brakes like my '09 did for 2 years whereas the '04 went out and had the rock hard pedal in one instance. So gives her some time. Getting someone in BHam to look over connectors for signs of scrapes tears etc should not be to hard . I'm calling a friend today or tomorrow.

 

We have a contact at Franklin's on Acton road in Birmingham I'm trying to find out who that is My mom has been over there three or four times with the Camry when she moved from Tuscaloosa or T-Town to Birmingham and that place gets five-star reviews all the time they are a smoking place

 

If it were my car, I'd certainly start by pursuing that angle, and stick with a simple fix if I found one. It would still be possible to go through the troubleshooting and end up at the actuator anyway. I wouldn't necessarily write them off as unskilled if that happened.

I just wouldn't want them jumping there first.

 

No surprise at all I was waiting until we could get the thing up on that screen those are the exact codes that I had on my '09 what is it guys 3 months ago now and I had no wiring scrapes no damage anywhere to the car had a brand new battery HV in it so I knew all this was straight I bought a used actuator from what I thought was a reputable supplier installed it and if not looked back I was able to bleed the car without using the computer and the pedal is just like it was when I got the car. Susie if you want if you guys are ever in t-town down near the University of Alabama I have a guy there locally that could probably swap out your actuator for you I'm going to guess for 250 bucks labor and then probably includes bleeding it and what have you giving you back the car with the brake pedal working and the lights out there are a couple of places that you can buy these things and if you're careful it may work out right and cost you a total of $800 possibly a tad less maybe considerate or if you have the 3000 or whatever and that's doable like my brother who has plenty of money then by all means.

 

I don't know about a redesigned part but I do know if you find 07 to '09s like I do with silly low mileage like 84,000 down here in the south in the junkyard or heading that way you can usually buy that break actuator off that car like from LKQ if I'm there to get it 35 45 dollars never more than 65 matter of fact I have one sitting on the shelf here I guess I could consider selling it because I don't have another Gen 2 to put it in it.. is ruined. But anytime I see LKQ or on the Facebook marketplace I see a lot of these Spanish towing places are pulling these things in with small dents in them that have been totaled out by I guess the insurance I just stripped a blue car with 90,000 look like a little old lady's car had the rear shade in it for the trunk and everything was pristine had the guy not sold two doors off the one side for $200 I'd have kept the whole car had a brand new hybrid battery in it this does happen pretty regularly in these times

 

They're hydraulic systems with electromechanical valves that move. I don't hold out great hope for anyone to miraculously engineer one that never wears out.

 

150 something thousand? Your car is not even well broken in yet keep the oil up and like me you probably take it to 666,000 miles actually pretty easily wheel bearings and brakes and hub bearings in the rear all relatively cheap stuff to do maybe your daughter's boyfriend after grad school will be able to handle some of this stuff or if they going into those kind of careers they'll be going straight to Ev or something. The Gen 2 is a great car even if it's the ugly brown with the crappy velor interior when you get semi done with it makes a great work vehicle for many more years I use mine all the time in my business Friends of mine are driving around in the vans getting 12 miles to the gallon and stuff it's ridiculous. Enjoy it just look at the new ones primes and whatnot $25,000 and stuff and more You're driving the same technology for two grand or something minus a few bells and whistles.

 

No they'll be none of that especially for a vehicle this old but I did notice when I was out and about in the junkyard last week that some Jesus what was it I think corolla's and the couple of other cars use a very similar if not same plug going to a very similar if not the same actuator pump assembly whatever that thing is it's just that it sits at a different angle so it's turned sideways and right side up or hours is laying flat etc etc not saying that this would work but it seems there are a lot of very similar ones in other Toyotas so that tells me that my buddy's over on toy mods could probably come up with the way to make one of these squeeze off the brakes and a Prius and then in other countries our Prius is called the I think it begins with an A don't remember the model name but those parts seem to be plentiful online without shipping being too crazy