Fender Bender, check hybrid message

hard to say without more description/pics, but it's likely a wire(s) or plug was pulled loose and finally disconnected altogether.

 

Check your manual. Mine States if in collision the hybrid system may disable itself.


XT830C ?

 

The dealership could declare it is related to the accident, based on what took place. Common sense is also and sometimes you have to argue about why it is related to the accident, or otherwise the handling of the car about the accident. It is good that it is minor.

You could have a dealer check it. Insurance companies do not build hybrids.

 

"some wire under the driver seat"??? Seat belt detector / occupancy detector / seat warmer / side air bags what else could there be under the driver seat? No hybrid system wires from what I know.

Didn't they specifically say what was disconnected

 

Well since the battery is under the rear seat one supposes that the high voltage cable goes that way. That would certainly be consistent with the "check hybrid system" message. He didn't say anything about the connector being under the driver's seat, just the wire...

 

Nope.. the high voltage cable goes under the body and its on the passenger side. If you look under the car you will see the orange plastic cover that protects the cable.

BTW all orange color cables are high voltage cables (obviously not the thin gauge cables like 22AWG), that is for the emergency respondents to identify the high voltage cable during a crash recovery and not to cut through them.

 

I just checked my car and you are mistaken - the orange high voltage cable does indeed travel on the left side of the car. Perhaps you're thinking of the full sized Prius rather than the Prius C that we're discussing in this thread, or perhaps you live in a right-hand drive country...?

Or perhaps gmacfan01, the Original Poster, lives in a right-hand drive country and it is I who's in error...?

 

Or, like me, when you crawl under the car, and are looking at everything upside down, dyslexia kicks in, lol.

 

Yes, I have a right hand drive and the HV cable goes on the passenger side (left) under the car, the inverter/motor assembly is also on the left side. So if you have a left hand drive things should be other way around.. right?

 

The difference between left and right hand drive cars is in the controls, not in the rest of the vehicle. It would be unnecessarily expensive to make mirror image parts of everything in the car. So the engines, transmission and most of the other stuff under the hood is the same on both types, and the HV cable always goes down the left side of the car no matter where the driver is sitting. The main underhood difference is in the steering linkage.

 

odd that you should have corrosion on a 4 year old vehicle interior.

 

Did some digging and yes that was a BIG STUPID assumption on my part Thanks for correcting