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Can't figure out how to enter secret service menu?

Discussion in 'Gen 4 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Nico3d3, Sep 27, 2021.

  1. Nico3d3

    Nico3d3 Junior Member

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    I have a base model 2017 Prius and I can't figure out how to enter secret service menu. All I could find was a tutorial showing how you should hold Media button while turning on and off headlights four times. My problem is that, there's no Media button on my Prius.
     
    #1 Nico3d3, Sep 27, 2021
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    Link? Is it for 4th gen? What can you access (sceptical here…)?
     
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    My guess is not much different from the infotainment service menus on the earlier generations. Everybody gets excited about them, then discovers they're only for the infotainment stuff (and a somewhat biased 12 volt battery meter).
     
    #3 ChapmanF, Sep 27, 2021
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    You can get in big trouble for impersonating a federal officer. :cautious:
     
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    Could be worth it, depending on what's on the menu.
     
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    Secret service menu? What do you mean?

    Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
     
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    It's a secret!
     
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    Maybe maintenance mode where the ICE engine will run and not be shut off by the computer? (Useful after doing a radiator coolant change or troubleshooting engine problems, etc.)
    I heard other Toyota's have a series of things they do that makes the windshield wipers go straight up then stop...great for replacing them. Anybody know if the Priis have this feature? (I tried the one I heard about and didn't work.)
     
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    With hardly any exceptions that I can remember, whenever someone shows up on PriusChat and posts about wanting to get into the secret service menu, it means they have read something about the maintenance screens you can get to on the MFD, but they don't realize those are only of any use for the infotainment components, and you tell them how to get in, and then they are disappointed.
     
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