Driver door open/Red Triangle of Death

That's the way it is designed. Always has been.

If the vehicle is on and engaged and you open the door without turning the car off, it warns you that the car could run away from you.

 

If you were to put the car in neutral and apply the parking brake, because you were going to exit the car you could easily drain the HV battery if you had the AC running. The car does not charge the HV battery when it's in neutral. One of the reasons we always warn people about going into automatic carwashes that require the car to be in neutral. AC system can put a significant load on the battery.

If they didn't put that warning up, think of how many times they would be trash talked/sued because someone ran the HV battery down to Zero.....

 

it doesn't. it is simply telling you to put the car in park, and it will continue to charge the battery. in neutral, it will not.
nothing changes when you open the door, those are just warnings to educate you by sending you to priuschat

 

Exactly... Everything still works... Even works better in some circumstances. Like sometimes when racing people at stop lights I swing my door open right as I floor it and not only does it make the car go faster, but if often confuses the person I'm racing which gives me that extra second of advantage because they think I'm crazy! BUT I'M CLEARLY NOT CRAZY.... I just like to win in the 0-10mph race away from stoplights. That's the category that Prius is fastest at....

 

Turn off your AC....

and open the windows..

JK about opening the windows.

It will depend greatly on the condition of your HV battery. If its original, I'd probably turn off the AC completely. If it's in good shape, you could probably leave the AC on lowest setting and make it through with no problems at all.

It's the owners risk to take......but getting the RTOD in the middle of a car wash would be rough...choose wisely young grasshopper...

 

if its the original battery, i wouldn't. find one where you don't have to put it in neutral

 

If it is not a new battery it doesn't matter. It's a used battery. He could have 100% paid someone to put in a replacement battery. Doesn't mean the battery isn't crap. The best replacement batteries you can buy without doing lots of work yourself are the GreenBean and Dorman ones because they have so much equipment and material to choose from to make a properly paired pack. Having said that, most of them are crap. We have just aged out of the time period where replacement cells were possible and now replacement used packs are possible. It is now replace it fully with a new pack or junk the car.

 

You're unlikely to get 2 years of driving at 10k year out of a refurb. Lower miles means more sitting periods which is detrimental and then 2 years is iffy with most of them.

 

Quick charge and discharge times is the easiest to spot symptom.

 

@Tony714 , @2k1Toaster didn't once mention it, so I'll jump in: check out his signature.

 

There no signature if your using your phone.

 

Yeah, I see too: even if you click on his avatar (on a phone), doesn't seem to get you his avatar either. Unless I'm missing it. Anyway, His signature has this link:

NewPriusBatteries

As viewed on a pc:

 

all you can do is drive until you start having issues, then make a decision. in the meantime, stay out of neutral