Techstream in PDX (Pacific Northwest)

Hi folks, am working on a Gen3 Prius issue and need a quick programming task on my car. Is there anyone in the PDX area that would be able to offer a hand with this? A few years back, I shadowed the dealer tech with his $15k Toyota laptop and had to handhold him in how to use the software. Kind of comical to be in that position; so I just need to DIY this thing. I'm also interested in seeing what is required to get this software myself; and would be interested in seeing your setup. many thx in advance!

 

Hey PC, thx for quick reply! I got some interesting news. Out of frustration and desperation, I toyed with this problem yesterday. I already had the dr prius iphone app, which is good, but doesn't appear to have all the program features I needed. I also had the veepeak OBD adapter. Well, after screwing around in the apple app store for a few hours and testing like 5-6 crappy OBD apps (most of them are locking you into their OBD hardware), I had brainfart and went to veepeaks website:

VeePeak – OBD2 Scan Tools, Read Your Vehicles

they recommended this app: "car scanner elm plus", as shown in the support page here (kind of hard to find):

Support – VeePeak

they actually call it "OBDCheck BLE" in other webpages. Its a bit confusing. Anyway, I installed that on the iphone and took note of the fairly robust experimental "coding" section. To my surprise this allowed me 3 free setting changes. I quickly made them and screwed one thing up (actually the app is a bit experimental still). So after purchasing app for $7 for a 1 year subscription, I was able to make unlimited changes. its quite robust actually and maps at least 50-100 settings as i recall from the toyo dealership techstream interface - to my iphone!

I found my setting and made it and voila! So I cannot commend these folks (veepeak + car scanner/obdcheck BLE) enough at this point. the dealerships in PDX wanted $150 just to take a look at this; and as mentioned, I would probably have to be in the garage showing them what to do, after i figured out again how to finagle my way into the usually off-limits garage. They usually dont let customers in the garage.

Anyway, I'm out of town next weekend, and a bit new to prius chat, but if you want to stop by while in PDX, and have a way to reach out to me through PC email, drop me a line. I have 2 G3 prii and am starting to work on them now, after some dealership mishaps. I thought i could give up car maintenance many years ago, but looks like im back at it for a while.