Rodent wire damage

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by NDsouza, Dec 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM.

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    Wondering what my options are for fixing this rodent damage on the wires coming out from the fuse box and going into the control box? Found out that something was wrong when the Check Hybrid System warning came on and the car will not go into drive. Will I be able to purchase the entire wiring assembly and replace it?

    There is also damage to one of the orange wires coming out of the inverter but that is less damaged.

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    i would just splice in some same gauge wire
     
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    The Orange wire coming out of the inverter is high voltage. Can you post a photo of that? You can't have hardly any damage in a high voltage cable before you have to replace and you could probably pull one off a vehicle at a wrecking yard so you can get a sense of the work you'll have to do to replace it.

    The two low voltage wires in photo (is that all of them?) that are busted can simply be spliced to repair because buying and replacing that entire wire harness is likely gonna be a super expensive part that will take many, many hours of disassembly and re-assembly.
     
    #4 PriusCamper, Dec 31, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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    #5 Georgina Rudkus, Dec 31, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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