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Reconditioning Experience with Hybrid Automotive's Prolong System

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by biglew8, May 16, 2017.

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    At 120k plugs are due for replacement. Seems like a cheap way to try to get where you want to be.
     
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    Well, finally had a chance to clean the corrosion and ended up finding… acid buildup? Is this a really bad sign? About the same on both sides. Any thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated.
     

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    This is normal. Remove the bus bars and you'll see more stuff that needs to be cleaned off
     
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    You da man! Thanks a ton
     
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    Hey @Scott2011 thanks for the pic. Another post last week with a guy asking if he could hook up a home spun power supply to the HV pack "without having to disassemble the car". I was asking myself, geez what di you want to be able to do, plug your power supply into the cigarette lighter socket? Long story short I recommended he not try to use a home spun charging hookup with what seemed to me to be way to little understanding of how to even hook up the power supply leads, to be anywhere near safe enough to give further instructions for a simple recharge.
    Looks to me like you have done some homework already, and getting the info you need to take your repair to a higher level. You might want to get some shots of the acid buildup too, if you have the chance. It can't hurt having them archived.
     
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    Scott

    use the search forums link up top and search

    hybrid battery

    hundreds of posts many very technical. They will be very helpful as you begin a battery exploration.
     
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