Ive got a 2007 Prius (in Alaska) that was just diagnosed with an air outlet servo motor failure, meaning i can blow hot air at my face, but not at the windshield, making driving impossible in the Alaska winter. Bummer is the shop is claiming over 20 hours of labor to service, at a cost of more than 3k. Does anyone know if this is really the only way to replace the part? Thanks in advance!
The location of your Gen 2 outlet servo (I'm looking in 2004 New Car Features Manual page BE-92) looks to be just about where it was in my Gen 1—left side of the unit, higher up than the air mix servo. It looks like still the same type of servo (unlike Gen 3, when it changed.) I had to attend to the air mix servo in my Gen 1, and the repair manual said to remove the instrument panel first (!!), and I thought, "seriously??" and stood on my head in the driver's footwell and I mean it was right there. Three phillips screws, five minutes. You'd have a trickier reach for the outlet servo, which is higher up, but I'm sure I could have reached it in the Gen 1, so it's worth a try. Maybe Gen 2 has extra stuff in the way. I didn't even replace my air mix servo, just took it apart and cleaned it. Total cost (if that's the only problem with yours), $0. Well, I guess I should apportion the cost of my can of Jiffy-Bath over the two spritzes I used up. -Chap
Thanks Chap, Ill check into whether or not I can reach it, thats what I was wondering, is this easier than stated by the book. Where did you get the New Car Features Manual, im unfamiliar with that book. Thanks -shad
The NCF is the No. 1 go-to book among the Toyota service manuals, because it's the one that tells you what all the bits are, where they are, what they're for, and how they do it. The various Repair Manual volumes then assume you've already seen that, when they tell you how to fix particular things. You can think of the NCF as your basic anatomy/physiology, while the repair manuals are all mechanics of diseases, diagnoses, and treatments, and can seem cryptic if you don't have the basics. All the Toyota manuals (and a whole ton of other stuff, like all the "University of Toyota" tech training coursebooks) are on their techinfo.toyota.com online site. You have a 2007, so there was also the option of paper copies (they went all-online around 2011) if you prefer those, but several of the volumes, including NCF, seem to be out of print, so you'd have to find someone selling a set. As for the online access, I described it more here. The New Car Features Manual is what you find under the NCF tab. -Chap
