Hybrid Battery Issue After Sitting Months

You should pull the oil dipstick and see if it has too much oil in it (or worse, not enough oil)

 

Odds are good you have bad modules and maybe buss bar corrosion. Letting it sit is always bad, we have heard many similar stories.

 

The battery is weak and out of balance; unfortunately driving it around will not repair it.

http://www.newpriusbatteries.com/

If you want to see what reconditioning involves, see the link in my signature. In your case this late in the game, I wouldn't suggest going this route as it's really a maintenance procedure. IOW, changing the oil won't fix an oil burning engine.

GOOD LUCK!

 

You leave jiffy the cars messed up you don’t you don’t check the oil lol?

they over filled it by one quart. There database says it takes 5 quarts it
Takes 3.9 quarts,

 

You would think they would check the oil level after they filled it but that has happened before. Check oil level first, it's free.

 

Stay away from jiffy lube!!!

They recently overfilled my engine oil.

I emailed corporate and two days later the shop calls me and sends me to another jiffy shop to do a compression check.

They did not do it and pretended to do the compression check.

I did not sign anything and drove to the shop that oveefilled it.

The owner was on the shop phone and they passed it to me.

He listened to what I said and it was a repeat of what I emailed corporate.

At the end he said he needs a third party to confirm any damage by overfilling it.

He then told me he sold the shop the very next day and he emailed me right after the call and denied any damage and that I took too long to let them know.

This was just days away from two months later and just a tad over 1,500 miles.

Limited liability warranty they have is 3,000 miles or 90 days.

I remailed corp and letting them know all the games they played and still no word back from corp.

I said to check all cameras.

Tip for anyone with same issue.
Have them put it in the system notes they overfilled it and get the oil that came out.

Though corp didnt seem to mind I didnt have those two things.


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You live in California? Tell them your going to contact the Bureau of Automotive Repair and see what happens.

 

@Skibob

That would be the final step and yelp review too.

Im sure Corp is looking into getting the footage of me getting the oil change and then going back to have them drain it and then the footage of me going to second location to have the so called compression check done.

I will create my own thread on the outcome.

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In block 10, one of the modules has a difference of 1.2 V which indicates that one of the cells in that module has died.

No, when you have a dead cell, there is nothing you can do to revive it. The module with the failed cell needs to be removed and replaced with another module that has a similar capacity so that it will play nicely with the rest of the modules in the battery.

The HA charger/discharger equipment works best when used before modules get to the stage of failed cells.

 

It needs at least one module. You can see block 10 is 1.3V lower than all the others- that shows that one of the modules has a shorted cell and is "dead". Buy a few modules, replace the bad one, replace the bus bars and inspect the wiring and connectors to the battery ecu. Then use the prolong charger system.

Or get a full set of new modules from Toyota or Newpriusbatteries if you want to go that route.

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Your battery is dead. Unfortunately sitting allows a weak module to stray into death and it is rarely recoverable. It is really just a symptom showing up earlier in miles than it would have if you continued to drive it. When the car is READY, the pack is being balanced continuously. If you drive gingerly and barely tap the go-pedal, you can probably eek out an infinite life from the pack if you never turn the car off.

I recommend you get a new pack, either from me or the dealership. If you want to try and repair yourself, you would want to pull all the modules and charge/balance a few times. You will get some time out of this, but it is the beginning of the whack-a-mole game. If you only plan on keeping the car for 3-months, then this shouldn't be an issue.