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Under no circumstances should you be using the Prius 12 volt battery for jump starting conventional cars or trucks. The battery was not designed...
I think you are missing the point that the 12 volt battery in the Prius does not carry engine starting current loads as with other normal cars....
The ECM will not be involved. Fuses are also ruled out as the light can be made to work by moving the connector. If the fault appears on low, and...
It is difficult for me to give precise instructions from a distance. Do you have a multimeter for testing? and the ability to use it. The most...
I do not post here very often now as I no longer have a Prius having bought a hybrid Lexus. So I am still keeping the faith with the system, and...
I am happy to hear of your good progress. The "solution" is a mixture of NOAH, and KOH, but that is not critical. I do not understand your...
Good to hear from you again MTL. Although I do not participate as much as I did here on PC I still do drop in to see what is happening, and...
The only way I know is to take the pressure up, but do this with the module inside a container or a sack. If doing it on an assembled battery...
Heating the cells helps dissolve dried out KOH/NOH chemicals back into solution it does not break down large crystalline structures. Taking the...
Charging at 4 to 5 amps will do no harm providing you monitor them for temperature. In use they will see up to 80 amps charge for short periods....
If you discharge the modules slowly once you get below about 5 volts you can take them down to zero at say 100 ma. Then charge slowly at around 2...
Thanks Bisco. I do from time to time drop in, and see whats happening here adding what I can to the subjects. The Lexus although not as frugal as...
Hi Shaked. I think you will have trouble trying to make holes with a needle. The plastic tops are quite tough and thick. Why not use a drill the...
I found the Hankook Kinergy Eco tyres excellent in all respects. If a peice of steel on the motorway had not taken 2 of them out I have no doubt...
Having sold my Prius. I am now the owner of a Lexus GS450H hybrid, and have removed the OEM 90 AH battery. It has been replaced by a 120 AH...
As already stated above the Prius does not have any changeable gears. In fact it has no true neutral and no reverse gear. Reverse is purely an...
AlthoughI rarly if ever have work other than services done at a garage I would always insist that any parts replaced are left in the car after...
Another item that is upsold is the coolant change. Every gen2 prius should have had the inverter coolant pump changed under the recall. Yet...
I was talking about the discs themselves rotors in the US. Front discs are 23 mm thick when new, and the reccommended change point is 19 mm.. John.
Somewhere among my posts you will find one descibing a simillar situation. The dealer reporting the need for new discs due to ware thickness. On...
