grandson jumped 05 prius, no start, main fuse blown

yea, I forgot about the wireless hookup that's probably the issue with it , my bother is a computer engineer & does not have the patience for people like me that don't understand computers like him. ( he is the one that installed this on my lap top) I am trying to help out 1 more thing I am going to try is I am going to try & swap out the power souce ecu up behind the steering wheel , I have explained this in other post on of how I planed on doing this, but will work on the mini vci too just to learn how to. I will not use the grid charger until I talk to person out in calif. that I bought it from to make sure, thanks for your help on this it does help.

 

I looked at this yesterday it is buried up in there like u would not believe! can't even get my hand up in there, I have read other threads about this ecu & they all said the same thing. car is parked in a barn not needed now so no rush. going to work on mini vci to get to work.

 

yes, I will ask him again but will take my car to him OR have him come over to the house try it again we swap out help on certain things that he does not do ( hvac work) & his expertise ( on computers) that I do not know. just for your info I did get car started @ parking lot aft. fuses where replaced ( main fuse was jumped with clip) ran for short time with no charge going into hybird battery according to graph for battery & then car shut of with red triangle showing.

 

fuse was done lone time ago in earlier post along with inverter & hv ecu, ( marriage is completed for hv ecu ) that's how I ended up here with no codes on hand held scanner ( patrick wong advised to hook up mini vci to get rest of codes if any)

 

question, can I use mini vci on a working 2013 prius v with out screwing up the car? ( if I ask my brother he might show me if I take my car to him) just for instruction purposes.

 

ok, thanks

 

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ok, I will look into that scanner going to ask brother first, but my daughter & wife calling the car a p.o.s. this is his 2nd one first one he wrecked aft his dad put over a 100,000 miles on car ( 07 prius) with 0 problems, I have to bite my tongue every time this comes up my grandson gets uncomfortable when it is he knows he screwed up, I keep telling every body that these are good cars but this is a major no no with these cars or any of the newer cars, but what do I know. just for info, no more blown fuses & this is as alot farther than I have been. Car will not be needed to drive until june when granddaughter starts to drive on temps.

 

ok, working on that now other members said same thing too, working on scanner now.

 

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ok, up date on prius I got it going no thanks to worthless mini vci or the other p.o.s. scanner that I bought no key to operate both of them! would of had to buy it from toyota, won't do. so I had a friend that runs a shop he said he does not know much about prius's so let me borrow his nice snap on scanner for the weekend, well I found a code that would not show up on my scanner but did on his it was the same code about the emoblizer again found out that car would not let me reprogram hv ecm so replaced that & the module next to it, reprogrammed it again & it worked! car started ran for a short time & red triangle came back on again & stoped charging hybrid battery. it flashed a code that I wrote down but can't find it but it was a code I seen before something about high resistance in negative contactor in the hybrid system, it was a hard code it kept coming back so I bought a couple of contactors off of e-bay swapped out neg. contactor and all is good now! car runs good no lites on or any issues. the only thing I got to say this was a lot of work the right scanner made it easier but if it was someone Else's car I would of told them to junk the car, but wanted to help out my grand kid's.