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Slip control stays on? Or transmission?

Discussion in 'Prius v Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by joey066, Dec 11, 2019.

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    joey066 Junior Member

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    Pulled into road, hit gas on wet road, and felt like the slip control activated...
    The gas engine is running but not providing power to wheels or charging battery, so I can crawl around slowly...?

    What could this be? Lots of yellow lights on the dash..
    2013 Prius v
     
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    Could be several things.
    Probably associated with the ABS/traction control.
    Have you turned it completely OFF for a while and tried again ??
     
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    How old is your 12V auxiliary battery?
     
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    Yes it persisted through the night someone mentioned something called limp mode I guess the Prius has an auto protective mode? Not sure how old the 12-volt battery is but it seems to be nice and strong
     
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    tires, speed sensor, wiring, ecu, inverter pump, icm module, time to read the codes
     
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    There is no way that a "normal" human being can tell if the 12 V battery really is "nice and strong" in a hybrid vehicle just by look and feel.
    A meter is needed to test.
     
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    If you have a way to get the trouble codes (which are there, because dash lights are on), that's the quickest way to what the car wants to tell you. Codes from the braking and traction systems can be read (in abridged form) with a short wire and some blinking-light counting, if no scan tool is available, but that won't retrieve codes from all possible subsystems.

    It's possible for the gas on the wet road to be directly related, indirectly related, or not related to what you're seeing now; coincidences do happen. The codes will be most informative.

    Because the car was in READY at the time, the voltage on the 12 volt bus was coming from the DC/DC converter just then, irrespective of the 12 volt battery condition.
     
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    While it is true that the car runs on inverter power once it boots into READY mode, my experience is that starting it on a flat 12V (or a flat traction battery) leaves a legacy of fault indications and dash lights.
     
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