Oil pump replacement and following.problems

With the low road clearance of our '16 Prius, it's not hard to hit objects in the road. We hit a rock. Nothing was leaking out so we continued our trip. When we got home I had the oil changed at a local Midas shop. They showed me my crunched oil pan and wanted $500 to replace it. I took it to my regular repair shop for this simple repair. I got oil pan and a gasket on eBay. He was going to charge $190 to replace the pan and change the oil. When he dropped the pan, he found the oil pump pick-up was was broken and in 4 pieces. He told me the oil pump replacement was about a 20 hour job. Checking up with Mr T, they said replacement was $3250 for labor alone. I gave go ahead for my independent guy to do the work as the car wasn't drivable ($1500 labor). When he had it repaired, he backed it out of his shop and after he shut it off and tried to start it again, it wouldn't start. Now, when the power button is pressed, two warnings cycle across the display, "Hybrid System Malfunction" and "Braking Power Low". The system doesn't/won't start. The brake feels very spongy. The headlights come on, horn works. There is a C1259 code. Anybody know what next step should be? My mechanic is not a Prius Pro, he's an honest guy but this is something he has never faced.

 

I met the GEICO rep yesterday. My check will be forthcoming.

 

What type of scanner would that be? I really know nothing about such things.

 

Thank you so much for your help. I apologize for asking that question about the scanner. I'm not a frequent user of this forum but I should have known there would be oodles of information about something like that. I'll engage my brain before I push the reply tab.

 

Because my mechanic couldn't figure out what was wrong, he gave me a $350 deduction from his very reasonable charges to help offset for my inconvenience and possible future charges. I had it towed to Mr T' house of backside pain. $150 diagnostic charge sounded reasonable enough to me. After a couple phone calls over several days and increased troubleshooting labor, we're up to $6000 to get it fixed. They told me the timing chain was put on incorrectly and there's the possibility a valve might be bent. If we don't take the head off and just put it back together, if there is a bent valve, they will have to go through all the labor accumulated so far to fix the possible bent valve. I'm wondering if the use of a full synthetic oil might take away just some of this discomfort. I really hate to be facing this type of expenses that wasn't really my fault but also hate to seek damages from my little Vietnamese mechanic. Any thoughts?

 

We live in San Diego. We only have about 55,000 miles on it. Never had any problems before this. We have Geico insurance and I already have a check that covered my first repair charges, covered under the collision portion of coverage, less deductible. It seems to me that this part of the repair shouldn't be the insurance company's responsibility. They have already paid for the repair once. The damage done now was the result of mistakes made by the first mechanic.

 

The oil was not for my car's discomfort but for mine. You know, the usual discomfort one could feel after Mr T has had his way with you.

As for the timing chain, they said something about it being 3 teeth off. (I wasn't aware the timing chain drove the oil pump) I was in shock during the last guestamate conversation and not sure how to process all that. And if it was indeed off like that there is a risk of a bent valve or valves. Most prudent approach is to take off the head and check the valves prior to re assembly.

 

I thought the same thing and mentioned it to the service writer. He did the hard sell with the threat of "what if" they put it back together and they had missed a problem, they would have to repeat the entire repair. It sounded prudent to do this one more thing as insurance.