Needs Maintainance light flashing despite maintainance given

It's a mileage based timer. 4500 miles after being reset, it will start blinking like that, and stay on permanently after 5000 miles. There is a procedure for turning the light off for DIYers out there, but i don't happen to know it... maybe someone else will chime in here, but i think it should be in the manual somewhere.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(karat @ Oct 17 2006, 02:30 PM) [snapback]334026[/snapback]</div>

It is a milage based timer. While I don't know offhand how to do it, there are supposedly instructions in the user manual for how to reset it. You could probably also find the instructions if you searched this site.

I found it... See this thread:

http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=12537

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(karat @ Oct 17 2006, 02:37 PM) [snapback]334035[/snapback]</div>

With the car on, toggle the odometer switch (below the MFD) until the odometer is
in the "ODO" position (not Trip A or Trip B)
Shut the car off.
While holding down the odometer button, turn on the car....hold the button until
the service light stops flashing....and "voila" you're done.
Cheers

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(karat @ Oct 17 2006, 01:37 PM) [snapback]334035[/snapback]</div>

In addition to what other posters on this thread have provided, you can find the instructions on pages 130-131 of your Owner's Manual.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(brandon @ Oct 17 2006, 03:37 PM) [snapback]334070[/snapback]</div>

Gee and I had to bribe the salesman to ask the service tech "How you do that?" Guess it all comes down to the fact that we really need to read that book like they tell us to. I could have saved myself a brew! :blink:

 

Eh, it's kind of buried in there. That's one of those topics that makes you say, "Now where would they put that in the manual?"

 

I feel that this should be one of those items on the MFD when you press MENU, along with the settings for which doors will unlock when you grab one.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(karat @ Nov 16 2007, 03:10 AM) [snapback]540427[/snapback]</div>

Yes. It's in the Owner's Manual and describes the sequence to use with the buttons on the fob to have all doors unlock, or just the driver's door unlock when you touch the driver's door handle.