Hello All, I have a 2 Gen Prius with 161k miles and normally gets mileage with 41 miles. I come across the red triangle in addition to the triangle, I also see VSC, check engine, air Now, I'm looking for info from this group regarding any help to find some help in fixing the battery in central Illinois ( Bloomington - Normal) by replacing it with a new/reconditioning cells or swap with another one. I am trying to find people who already done similar jobs or some one who knew if they can do it. Local Toyota quoted 4k with labor and I cannot afford that. Any information pointing me in the right direction helps, Thank You !
You can check LKQ for a used OEM battery pulled from a wrecked car. I have seen them $800-$1200. Your labor is free to you. Its a big job but not crazy difficult. I'd help but I'm 5 hours away in KC.
How do you know this is the battery again Just buy those lights? You really need to be reading the codes I think You have the exclamation point with the waves around it on too what about the VSC or traction controls squiggles? If so yeah you really need to be reading the codes for you just start hunting a battery down unless you know that your battery looks like h a l e under the hood under the cover of the battery in other words which is in the back You really need to do that If you really think you're hybrid batteries bad remove the tray and the pad and the safety plug for a minute use a safety plug to take the iron safety tab out undo a few screws and lift your battery hood or top up pull the black tabs down and looking under the orange strips and look how bad the copper bus bars and the gold nuts look they'll probably be frosted and the copper bus bars will be blackish dark brown not good.
Sometimes you can clean the corrosion off the voltage sensor system in the battery pack and it will work normally again. Or sometimes the battery coolant fan gets corroded terminals, which is a 5 minute fix... First step is to know what your error codes are pointing at.
