Prius ICE won't turn on. Limp mode.

An inexpensive walmart one because that's all I could afford. Which one should i buy and how much is it?

 

Which one should I buy? If it REALLY makes that big a difference and can help me get the car started I'll seriously look into it.

Unfortunately I'm not Made of money and this ordeal has lost me 1k dollars easily and counting.

 

Before it died while driving it'd last acceleration especially when driving uphill which I had to do everyday based on where I lived. The last couple days of driving it a few times it wouldn't make it uphill and was going at a literal snails pace so I had to pull over and wait 5 minutes or so to get up the hill then coast all the way down it while never having it to touch the gad pedal. Every day I go down that steep mountain it completely charges my battery according to the dashboard screen.

The last couple days I had noticeable loss of power and acceleration and it'd make a sound like a paper plate touching an open box fan flapping noise with noticeable loss of power and acceleration. Literally the very next day a friend of mine and I were going to at the very least soak the Cat overnight or replace it with one I found on ebay and then it stopped while driving and hasn't started since. A few times after disconnecting the battery it'd move briefly before that red steering wheel exclamation point dashboard light showed up on screen. Now that dashboard symbol never leaves even after erasing codes.

That accident was over 6 months ago. A friend of mine that knows 10x more about cars then I do looked everything over two separate times now but I'll go look again. I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for but I'll go out there very shortly. I've driven it every day since that accident without that red steering wheel with exclamation point ever showing up. It has to be somehow related because it's the first thing that appears when I started driving after I reset it briefly and the only time I've ever seen it is now after my Car stopped driving. Hopefully your right somehow something got unplugged or disconnected but I seriously doubt it. I'll go check anyway. It's making strange noises when I try to turn off engine and the red battery dashboard light started appearing after I tried to get it working while broke down on side of road. Ive already hooked up a brand new battery to it to check. The red battery symbol went away after a couple minutes but it still didn't start. I even tried the other guys suggestion and unplugged the maf sensor. That didn't do anything either. I'm going to try here in a few minutes and see if any wires or damaged or unplugged

 

I really appreciate the help but my brain doesn't register literally any of this electrical kind of thing. I've literally never have learned anything in my life electrical related outside plugging guitars into amplifiers, cell phones and computers.

My brain can't even register what your saying and the diagrams might as well be In Chinese because they mean and are doing absolutely nothing as far as helping me.

In retrospect this wasn't a wise decision buying something this involved. I'm check mated. My brain might as well be toast because this is day 7 of all this constant new info overload. I don't have the desire or the will to keep trying to figure this stuff out anymore. All the wires look plugged in and fine to me.

I'm check mated on this car. I'm pretty much done. I've wasted literally HOURS and HOURS and am literally not any closer to getting it started then where it was 9 days ago when it happened. I don't have the money to pay some over priced mechanic to fix it. I can barely get anyone that even wants to try and attempt to.

I'm check mated and defeated for now. These diagrams do literally nothing for me as far as trying to figure any of this out. This is way over my head.

 

Zero clue where I'm supposed to check. None of this means any sense whatsoever. No idea what I'm supposed to check and wouldn't know if it were damaged if it were.

Everything looks plugged in to me. There is alot of dust and dirt surrounding the outside of Everything. I don't have any cleaner to clean anything with. I go to the store later I guess and buy something I guess but I'm starting to just want out of this. It has 240,000 miles. Both batteries are low. The engine guzzles oil. And now I have codes related to emissions abs gas lines possibly clogged up and damaged to.

No thanks. I have A Honda civic as well with 200,000 miles that has literally never had not one problem. Even if it did it'd be 50x easier and cheaper to fix then this.

Hopefully I can sell as is. I'm waving the white flag. To say I'm annoyed and frustrated would be the understatement of the century. All this wasted time for absolutely nothing. When all these issues are ambiguous and can have several solutions .

Some people enjoy this sort of thing. I'm most definitely not one of them

 

Yes I'm slowly but surely realizing this.

 

That's A good point aactually. At least I could give the person everything You all sent Me. I hate to sound ungrateful when You all are giving Me your time and expertise for free.

I just tool a long break and a long sleep as well and feel more refreshed. Either that or I'm A glutton for punishment but I guess I'll l keep trying to figure it out. If I could at least get it started and running it'd make a night and day difference if I were to sell it.

I'll look at those diagrams with a fresh set of eyes here shortly. Beyond frustrated yesterday. Just needed to get away from it for awhile.

 

It was A failed fuel pump. Which I was strongly leaning toward. The cataclean and seafoam I've ran through Gas tank must have cloggedit.

That P0A4B was caused by me spilling coolant when I added some hoping that was the reason for the no start.

P3190 is known for failed pump allegedly and I had that in conjuction with the P0456 and the EPS red warning light with exclamation point which I read on these forums that inadvertently can mean fuel related issues.

There was also someone one reddit that ICE engine wouldn't start and had the EPS red warning light and exclamation point and the check hybrid system and it was the fuel pump.

It was almost immediately after I added that can of cataclean to the gas tank that the situation happened so was almost certain it had to be related to that.

 

It wasn't low. It was right above low. I figured it wouldn't hurt to at least try to add and see if its start and did spill a little. No idea itd set off a error code. Next time immediately clean up afterward. I didn't spill that much either and had a funnel.

Ok I have a friend of mine that said he'd help me drain the gas tank tomorrow if you think that's what I should do