Prius wouldn't start

Hey guys, so small update; so I received a used one from another guy on eBay & apparently its something else in the battery pack. So come tomorrow I'm gonna take the battery pack out and do a more intensive look. I honestly have no idea why it has to be this complicated, but unfortunately it's become this way. Thankfully tomorrow is a holiday, so I'll have plenty of time to figure things out.

 

Hey guys, so I believe I found the root of my problem (and its probably a very rookie mistake). So I was working on taking the battery pack apart and hiding right in front of me was one of the battery contacts that's supposed to be screwed down by an 8mm nut, but it was just handing out. I'll admit that sometimes I rush through things and this just happens to be one of those times. Now my problem is that I have a package of nickel plated bus bars with the nuts, but that's what I'm currently trying to find. If I can't find it today, then I'll have to contact the dealership and see if my original crate is still on their premises or not (hopefully it is based on how long it took them to ship it to the dealership to begin with).

 

Hey all so heres a little update on my end; so I don't have anymore problem codes, but still my car just won't start. None of the data on my obd2 scanner is giving me any kind of information. For those of you talking about doing Techstream, I can't do that because I don't have any laptop that runs Win XP and can bypass any kind of setup stuff. My laptop runs Win 10 & even then it wants to see if I'm a registered mechanic. Therefore, I'm considering taking it to a local mechanic that does work on hybrid vehicles because I can't think of any other ideas, but like always I'm open to suggestions.

Hey all, so a quick search from these forums said that it could be possible low oil. My oil is currently at the bottom dot, but since it hasn't been run in over 6 months, I don't understand how that could have any bearing on the situation since my situation has been the hybrid battery this whole time. Also I wouldn't even know how to jump up the front of the car properly to even perform the necessary oil change (I do have proper stands to keep the car up though).

 

So I found my mini vci cable and found a great video on how to install a virtual box with Win XP in it. The only issue is that the video didn't really explain how to update the firmware so that Techstream recognizes it all.

 

Hey all, great news. So I was able to get Techstream running on my laptop and I was able to take a photo of the health check results that my laptop gave me. I did a quick search and apparently the currently code has to deal with the safety plug (P0A0D). However, my understanding is that the orange plug can only go in ONE way (which I made sure I did correctly and safely). Anyways, heres the photo I got from the results

 

Oh, so that's what I didn't do. Thanks for showing me this.

 

So I was able to get the car to drive about a couple of miles before I started noticing a faint odor. Apparently its coming from the hybrid battery pack because I got the red triangle again & was safely able to park the car in my local Walmart. Thankfully no one was injured during the experiment, but now I have to get into my truck & turn on the car to find out what the error code is.

 

So I was able to get some DTC from the car while its sitting in Walmart. Heres an image of the new codes

 

So based on some of the research I've done, it looks like I gotta do (hopefully) some repair on my inverter as some of the codes are in reference to the inverter. So far I found a really good Youtube video on the P0A94 code, but that's gonna take some work as well as a different kind of multimeter (have to get one that measures Ohms), so gonna have to look for one of those. Hopefully I can figure this issue out here soon.

 

Hey guys, so just curious, since I'm probably gonna be replacing the inverter, should I go ahead & replace the inverter water pump as well?

 

Hey all, so I just noticed that the inverter coolant level is extremely low, but I honestly don't know if that would cause the inverter itself to fail or not. I'm wondering if I should just buy more of the SLLC coolant from the dealership and put it in the coolant tank and maybe that will help me to save on not having to replace the inverter.

 

Now I need to figure out how to get the step by step instructions for the p0a0d error code. Apparently there's a few sub codes on that from what I've been reading. Unfortunately when it comes to a possible pdf file on that, its very hard to find or just come by in general.