2008 Malfunction and trouble codes

Hi all, I am a proud owner of a 2008 Prius with 117,000 miles on it. actually my daughter has driven the car almost exclusively except for the first six months. Anyway, during her travels today a series of lights came on including the Malfunction light, engine light and on the screen the hybrid trouble light (the icon of a car with an explamation point in it). I took the car to advanced auto and had the codes read and they were 1. P3193 Fuel Run Out CURRENT, 2. P0A93 Inverter A cooling System performance PENDING and 3. C1241 Low batterry positive voltage or Abnormally high batterry positive voltage. I have been reading through the forum and I am a little nervous with the inverter code and wonder what is the differrence between it being a pending code as oppossed to a current code. I am also curious if the C1241 is a engine battery code and if a bad battery would/could make the other codes. I guess I am asking if I might get lucky and just need a new engine battery? and of course if the Inverter code means anything what kind of charge am I looking at for repair? Thank you in advance for any help.

 

No I have not, I did not know about it. I will definitely check into this and maybe I will get lucky. Thank You very much for letting Me know about this, it is appreciated.

 

I'm not sure except that I did get the C1241 code which I believe is telling me to replace the 12volt battery. could that battery being bad give false readings on the other codes? I checked discount Auto and they sell an Optima battery for the prius ($200.00 with a 25% discount making it $150.00). I wuld pick up the battery and put it in myself and save some money over the dealer, should probably do this anyway. The Prius does have the inverter recall as howardbc pointed out along with the overspeed one and possibly the steering one so a trip to the dealer woulod not hurt anyway. Your thoughts on the battery would be appreciated, thanks again.

 

well. I had the vehicle towed to Toyota and the comments from them so far is that there is a recall on the floor mat (what a joke that rec all is) and that the inverter is not a recall and that Toyota has not decided what to do with that yet. I told her that according to the national highway safety transportation system it is a recall which calls for Toyota to change the water pump at no charge and the campaign number is 12v536000. I am now waiting for their call back on the diagnostics and cost. I expect they will want to change the battery, if they quote $250.00 I will probably have them do it as it is an expensive battery that I found with discount for $162. as far as running out of gas, my daughter has not run out of gas and there was fuel in it, I did not check for water flow in the reservoir before towing to dealer, damn, I hope I am not in for a ride with this dealer. I gave all the information to 3 different people in service and when it was towed in they asked me by name what it was here for? unbelievable. I will post the results and do appreciate all the insight I am getting in the forum. Thank You

 

Toyota told me the inverter is a campaign, not a recall but they would do the work for free anyway because the recall is coming? Then they said my engines pump is also bad and the belt (timing?) is also bad and that would be about $370.00 and they recommend the air filter and cabin air filter be changed. I said to go ahead and do the work because the car was already towed there and change the oil while your at it. The car has well over 100,000 miles on it (not sure how many, I said 117,000 but that is the other car) so needing the work did not sound unreasonable, the price sounded a bit high but? Anyone else have their engine water pump changed and the belt (timing or serpentine?)

 

Brit Prius. I almost did not put that I let them change the filters because I did not want to get a response like this, because I know it is easy to change as well. That being said I did say being the car was already towed to the dealer, I let them do the work. I realize that I paid to have it done and being someone who usually does everything himself that was tough. I did also realize after I left the post that the belt was a serpentine and yes the labor charge for it is part of the pump changeout, if I knew that pump was bad and the car was running I would have had a friend who is a mechanic change it and saved money (I am presently recovering from fusion surgery in my back, L2-S1, I would have changed the filters in my present condition but not the pump) but again, being it was already at the dealer needing the inverter water pump, I let them do the work. I do appreciate the response, the info would have helped greatly under normal conditions. Do You know anything about the inverter/Hybrid system? I don't. It looks like it is regular 100,000 mile coolant in a closed system which would mean that the coolant needs to be changed along with the radiators coolant every 100,000 miles, is that correct?