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What I have discovered is that you do not need to connect a battery maintainer regularly. It does not alter the setpoint of the battery-management...
The Toyota app and/or the Toyota Connect services (with or without a partial/full subscription) do not cause a significant parasitic drain.
It is less complicated than the explanations above. READY = hybrid system on (as indicated explicitly on the display) The car cannot be shifted...
The Uplus 140R/H4/LN1 AGM battery is very cheap on Amazon in case you don’t want to deal with the dealer, and it is an upgrade over both the OEM...
The ready mode refers to the driving mode of the start–stop button, as opposed to the accessory mode or off mode. You will see a green READY on...
Those cars with no electronics whatsoever are long gone. Even the brand-new 12-V battery in my brand-new 2009 Corolla died when I left the car...
When did you move to California?
@Roy Peterson has been testing his Gen 5 Prius Prime while I have been testing my Gen 4 Prius Prime using a battery monitor, and we have been...
It is Prime-only, and yes, the Gen 4 Prius Prime has it.
13 ft–lb is not that much though. I could probably apply that with my hand. LOL If you insist on using a wrench, I would go down to 10 ft–lb. Even...
It is still wrong. LOL 3/4 turns is an approximate value. Chances are that you can apply 1 ft–lb and it will be 3.02/4 turns and 100 ft–lb and it...
Spin-on oil filters should never be installed with a wrench! They should always be only hand-tightened. Just make sure that you have approximately...
In older cars without a BMS (like @Mendel Leisk’s Gen 3 Prius that he is familiar with), the 12-V battery sees 14.3 V at all times and, therefore,...
The Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEEHRA) program is a federal program created under the Inflation-Reduction Act by Biden and being...
You are asking Google to define problems that don’t exist and then asking for a solution for problems that don’t exist. That’s why it didn’t get...
There is no problem at all with the Prius 12-V battery or parasitic drain if (1) the battery is fully charged at the purchase using a battery...
Got my Consumer Reports April car issue in the mail yesterday. Toyota Prius is #11 on the reliability ranking among hundreds of cars—so, it is...
Perhaps it is a loose connection on the BM2 terminals then, with the BM2 momentarily losing power and producing a spike/spark. In any case, it...
I have never seen the DC–DC converter producing voltages higher than 14.5 V in my Gen 4 Prius Prime. Do you connect and disconnect inductive...
Why? Because things are never the way you think they should be.
