Installed a Switch to Keep Driving :)

It would be great to be something like this:
2002 prius - battery block 8 becomes weak - which cell? | PriusChat

Like I said earlier, the whole reason owning and driving this car was to save money, the more poured back in and I’m losing the savings of HV anyway. The replacement mods will be here this weekend. I’m going to clean everything really good and find the leaker, I may sit them in paper, I’m going to load test, then if bad replace mods, then balance them out everything together and see what happens, I’ve got everything ready just waiting on the salvage mods to come. I only drive 12 miles a day in this car so it’s just about keeping her alive at this point. Wil probably go back to a camry after this one. Thanks for the replies!!

 

It's pretty messy in here. According to the computer it's number 16. From what I read that's starting away from ECU and counting towards it. I've drove around with the Prius using electric and I can see on Techstream Mod 8 really drop off at low volts and be a good volt and a half higher on recharge so I think the computer is right at ID'ing it as the problem. resistance is the same on the whole pack and the others are tighter/similar voltage. I hope I can get away with just replacing these 2. This leak makes sense why I threw the isolation fault the computer ID'd as 612 in the pack. Its sensing the leak so yeah everything is adding up at this point.

 

You do realize Gen 1 and Gen 3 don't brick the car for isolation faults in the pack 612 right? Resistance levels are nominal. Its an electrolyte bridge I can see it. Toyota no longer bricks the cars in gen 3 for isolation faults in pack... that says alot about the danger.. Toyota actually has a P release talking about risk assessment that stranding the vehicle was more dangerous than allowing the vehicle to return to it's destination, thats why they no longer brick the vehicle... but I guess you know better right? Bypassing safteyyyy WahhhhhhhHhHh.. 1000 times more likley!!! lol.. cool math bro.. Go on somewhere crybaby

 

Prodigyplace you arent very observant are you? "Lighthouse-Beacon, 37 minutes ago" Why don't you catch up before you post. Another 2017 prius steps into the thread ahahah.. go on somwhere gen 3.. you're not welcome here

 

Just to clarify, I've made it 6 months driving on the Isolation fault which I isolated to the case with sub code 612 and verifying with this method:

As well as monitoring resistance levels and visually inspecting the leak area.

My plan was to keep driving until the computer ID'd the failing module. It has now done that and I am moving to my next plan phase. Which is change both module 15 & 16 and cleaning connections on entire pack.


P3018 Battery Block 8 Becomes Weak =

Gen II Module Position Map / Diagram




(I am going to continue to add my documents and experiences with this in this thread regardless of what haters chime in because I know one day, could be years from now, this thread may prove valuable to someone else, which has been my case in the past)

 

No that's fine.. But user's like you who chime into threads with negativity and animosity are useless. I see it time and time again on this forum. You posted snarky crap before you even read the thread.

 

I've got a friend that works in an nyc taxi garage. i sent him my techstream live data and he said to keep driving. Cabby's do this all the time with moderate leaks with low resistance. It's not 'good' practice.. but the cabbies arent on this forum. They are driving hard miles to make money...

I think many users on here forget that the more you spend money/time on the vehicle the more you refute the entire point of HV, which is operational savings..

You might as wel buy a camry if you're into sinking cash into a 10 year old car with quarter million miles on it.. and go no HV

Id rather put my money in property and mutual funds.. and drive this vehicle in the ground and rinse and repeat

Will update as I proceed.. Thanks

 

So we’ve got an “If” story here...cool... cool.. lol

 

And a story about the inportance of seatbelts here... lol... great thanks for the insight? Why even post in my thread? Just go on somewhere Christ

 

Watch me take the steps I did. Make it 6 months. Repair a set of modules and clean and go another 2 years and do it again, then sell the car and there be no issue and you guys will say, “oh I was the lucky one” no not the case there are thousands of others who do the same or similar but they don’t log into this forum to deal with grandpa lecture them on buying new cells for 1600 at the first site of a triangle. I’ll be the documented “lucky one” and maybe more will post so it time it won’t look so “lucky”. I’ve worked on far more complex machines than this Prius and guess what? I’ll be right.. and you’ll be logging into Prius chat running your mouth lecturing strangers with your “insider knowledge” not really helping anyone