Warning light after cooling fan cleaning? “( ! )”

Are all the connections on the 12 volt battery solid there's a little skinny white wire that goes to a plug that's not directly where the band is that goes on the lead plug that sticks up out of the battery It's behind that on the rack that's covered with the red cover when you cover the terminal assembly that white wire needs to be connected to that one single terminal like it always has been did you break that loose by chance while you were working sometimes bending it and moving the plug a few times was all it takes?

 

If the brackets look like they could be little brake shoes inside a drum, that's the Electronically Controlled Braking warning (ECB).

If they have a little wavy line between their bottoms that could be a tread, that's the Tire Pressure Monitoring System warning (TPMS).

Either way, you can make it blink to tell you why it is on:

Blink (a/k/a Flash) Codes – How to. | PriusChat

 

Oh did you spin the fan around when you cleaned it? A Toyota mechanic once told me to never let an electric fan spin when you are doing anything with it...it will break it. (I asked him if it was okay to spray some compressed air in my HV battery cooling fan to clean it...NO! But if you remove it and can hold the fan still while spraying air, that's okay!)
If nothing else works, I'd buy a new fan...probably be $130-200 for your 2006

 

Wow that is hysterical I've never heard such I have a white battery cooling fan from a Gen 3 sitting on my porch right now that has been sprayed with cleaner and then with water and then blown out with air and it's plugged up to 12 volts running wide open matter of fact all my battery cooling fans have been cleaned this way only been three the other two were so clean. I didn't bother cleaning them so I guess I've been lucky both those times same with alternator sometimes I'm at the junkyard and they're full of mud and funk and weirdness I spray them out with super clean blast them out with water blast them out with air spray some electrical contact cleaner through the system blow it out with air sit it on a shelf and the sunlight for about 30 minutes then it goes in the shop on the shelf ready for service when I need it far as I know none of these things have come off my shop shelf and gone on a vehicle and not worked so far and that's been a long long many years now.

 

Sometimes if you are cleaning a fan with compressed air, you can get it spinning at such high rpm that some damage might be done. I've heard of it as a possibility, but never from anybody it's really happened to.

I think I've pretty much never held an electric motor of any kind in my hands without spinning it. I mean, who can resist?

 

As soon as you've given the link a read, you will know how to retrieve the trouble code(s) telling you why the light is on. And finding out why the light is on is the way you find out what kind of problem the car has, and finding that out is the way to judge whether the car is safe to drive with that on.

So giving that link a read is on, as a project manager might say, the critical path.

 

It's a bit of sensory overload with all the lights blinking at once.

Just focus on a single light at a time, and count the blinks out into two-digit codes the way that page you read says to.

Each light will keep blinking out the same codes in the same order, so as soon as you see the first code you wrote down come around again, you know you have all the codes from that light, and you move on to the next light.

Once you have the codes, you can post them here. (The way to interpret them is to look them up in the manual, which that page also explains how to do, but some of the codes may already be familiar to us.)

 

I thought that was the ABS. I have that too. I need to learn more about that. That white wire is part of that? Very delicate looking.

I've heard this business of not spinning the fan. It's about the bearings. Shop air can over-spin them and ruin them. They're rated for much slower rpm. Makes sense. Is it true? Could be but not confirmed.