Strange electric issue - post rear view mirror destruction... related?

Yesterday a large angry child ripped my rear view mirror off my 2009 Prius (230,000+ miles) and pulled so hard, the wires separated and the glass broke, rather than the glue. Got child under control, and drove the car (by myself) for 100+ miles, no issues with driving. Today, drove another 30 miles, no issues...

Then after lunch today, I went to take a different child to an event, and one mile from home it seemed the car quit. This curious child had been playing with the wires hanging from the ceiling (not sure that's related, but just in case). There are three wires hanging that used to be connected to the mirror somewhere. Wires were not destroyed, but may have touched each other.

My rear view mirror is the kind with 3 garage door buttons and on and off buttons. I never use any of those buttons.

When the car stalled out one mile from home, I turned it off and then on again. I was able to drive forward, but here's how that looked:

- no power steering
- no air conditioning
- no speedometer light showing
- dash lights literally flashing: all gear lights (could not tell I was in drive) and gas gauge bars (could not tell the tank was full)
- dash lights on solid: seat belt light, TPMS light, ABS light,brake light
- Info display had a few small things lit up maybe but not the usual photo of engine use or mpg

There was NO check engine light, no red triangle light at all

- fan worked to blow the 90 degree air around
- windows worked
- brakes worked, not sure if they were "normal" or not
- hazards worked
- door locks worked

I limped my way to the dealer, where they are initially stumped. They are finding a Prius "expert" to examine and warned me it could take days (ahem "thousands" probably) to figure it out.

I did NOT think to plug in my own ODB2 reader. busy getting kiddo home in an uber and canceling his appointment.

Any ideas?

I do not THINK it's related but 10 days ago, the car was diagnosed with a throttle body actuator(?) problem that occurs intermittently. I deferred repair as it can go weeks between issues. Those symptoms are totally different than above, but this is the only known problem with the car so I mention it "just in case".

 

Funny, I asked the dealer intake person if it could have blown a fuse, and he was not inclined to think so. Made a big deal out of explaining to me that a blown fuse means the power can't pass through it (duh). I shoudn't have panicked and headed to dealer - should have known to come here first!! (Although checking each fuse on a 90+ degree day is not my idea of a good time.) Thank you.

 

ECU-IG fuse fixed it!!!

Most expensive fuse ever, but thanks to you guys, at least three people learned a lesson from this, including me!

Thank you thank you thank you!

 

For the record, the dealer recorded that my car showed 13 different dtcs:

p0A0F, 3108, u0129, 0146, P2103, U0129 (again? Or the dealer made a typo), C1242, 1310, B1421, 1412, 2286, 1650, and 1271.

 

Will do.

At least he wasn't too proud to pass along your recommendation to the tech working on the car. I'm sure they get a lot of people self-diagnosing or armchair quarterbacking with less merit. And they shaved off their diagnostic estimate $$ by more than half and don't seem to have charged me even a penny for the fuse, so it could have been worse I suppose.

Maybe they used one of the fuses I had in my glove compartment, LOL.

That'll teach me for panicking and thinking there was no way this was a DIY solution.

 

And I got to drive a brand new Camry for a day. Which just confirms that I don't want one, but I don't think I've ever driven a brand new car before so it was worth that.