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Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Tadashi, May 24, 2005.

  1. Tadashi

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    What is this I hear that there is a soft reset procedure? Anyone know how to do it? A search of the boards came up with the feul economy meter reset info.
     
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    Soft reset? What do you mean?

    you can reboot the car by turning the power off, waiting a few minutes and turning the car on. That often clears a few problems. Sometimes the car hangs on Ig-On mode when you intended to go to Ready. Only way out of that is to power off (press power without brake pressed). I believe that is caused by the immobilizer not detecting the fob on re-verification of its presence.
     
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    Not sure someone mentioned that they performed a soft reset on their car when it stalled on the freeway. This allowed it to be restarted so they could drive to a dealer. They mentioned it was a procedure that took about 5 min.
     
    #3 Tadashi, May 24, 2005
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    They probably turned the car off, waited 5 minutes, then powered back uo. Usually the car will retry starting ICE and succeed.
     
    #4 DanMan32, May 24, 2005
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    I believe that I made the reference.

    If memory serves, the red triangle warning light was on, and the normal power-up, power-down cycling did nothing to turn off the light. The car was in 'park.' Would not shift into 'drive' mode.

    The solution was, while the car was on, triangle illuminated, shifting the car into neutral, with the foot on the brake. Holding down the power button for 3-5 seconds turned the car off. Turning it on again seemed to clear the triangle. Might have had to do it twice, I can't remember.

    I recalled seeing this mentioned as a 'soft reset' procedure but can't remember exactly where... Sorry if I mis-spoke.
     
    #5 jsorger, May 25, 2005
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