Red triangle and 300+ miles from Toyota-capable mechanic

is the battery icon filling up as you downhill?

 

Keep us posted. I’m curious what was the problem.

 

Curious because my 2007 is doing something similar, but only going up hills! No codes. Intermittent Red Triangle of Death. Not every drive. Never when I take her to mechanic!

 

You should check you oil level or coolant level, it probably is very low (to non existent)

 

AFAIK, only low oil pressure, door open (when in drive), or possibly high engine temperature can trigger a master warning light without setting a code.

If there is something else , there should be a "historic" code stored in whatever ecu set it. Not every repair shop has a capable scantool that can talk to all 15-16 ecu's on a Gen2.

There's a sticky thread at the top of the Technical Discussion forum that reviews several OBD apps and devices if you want to be able to scan things yourself.

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Thank you. Oil is consistently fine so I will check coolants.

 

maybe a bad door switch