Apparently if you stomp hard enough on the accelerator, the car can stall. Brakes and steering will still work, though. Toyota is working on a remedy, it says, so there will be a further notice. Until then be careful about flooring the accelerator. It's nice that Toyota is taking responsibility for this problem, but I'm surprised it wasn't detected before.
It's the J1V recall notice. Mine just came in the mail the other day, but it's been discussed here on PriusChat already. The 1 in J1V means they don't have the update ready to roll out yet. When they do, the J0V notices will get mailed, and then we can go in and get the update. -Chap
Yep got mine in the mail yesterday. Just waiting for the next notice when they actually have it available for us.
Well we're special and want to create a thread just for ourselves exclusively, how are we supposed to get attention then
so ... it's just a flash? rather than actual parts swap out? Surprise of all surprises, we just got an OTA flash on our stinking mini van. Who knew? Makes me wonder which manufacturers have not yet bought into this time-saving process. .
Well, I’m not too happy about Toyota doing a re-flash of the ECM because it almost always comes with a cost. What seems to be a design flaw in the electrical inverter is being addressed by Toyota with another software bandaid. It not going to do anything except save THEM (Toyota) money at the expense of their customers.
Did you get an opportunity to approve the OTA flash on the minivan? What was the notification like? Of course I want to make lots of comforting assumptions about how they handle security and authenticity for their OTA updates.... Hmm, well, almost everything about the inverter is software. Software and a dozen or so big honkin' transistors. Everything about what it does, and what it makes MG1 and MG2 do, is all about the timing of trigger pulses to those transistors, and that's ... the software. In the case of this recall, the issue is a particular set of circumstances where the software was supposed to transition to failsafe/limp-home mode, but could end up transitioning to immediate OFF instead. The software is the obvious place to fix that. In traffic, immediate OFF is pretty clearly not the behavior you want. -Chap
