Multi-Information Display shows an Warning Signal - ! - with a picture of the rear of the prius belo

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  1. charles Y

    charles Y New Member

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    nothing in the manual about this one.
     
    #21 charles Y, Nov 15, 2014
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    Sounds like the standard PiP substitute for a check engine light. But it has to stay on to read a code. If it goes away after a few minutes, it sounds like your 12V battery is about to die. If I had my guesses my bet would be a "soft short" in the 12V battery.


    iPad ? HD
     
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    thanks for the info, but I doubt that is what it means.
     
    #23 charles Y, Nov 16, 2014
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    This sure does sound like the "approach warning" of PCS/DRCC. There are conditions listed (p. 340 in my '14s manual) where false triggering can occur.

    Or, you might have a defective radar sensor.
     
    #24 rxlawdude, Nov 16, 2014
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    can you upload this picture? on my there is only the sensor for the radar with a picture of my car and 3 lines and as the distance gets closer the lines disappears. However, I know that when you need to hit your breaks because you are too close it is a different warning and the alarm sound goes off. This doesn't have the alarm sound and as I said before in my original tread that it is the rear of the car that is shown. there is no other picture of this in my manual showing a "!" with a rear of my car in the display. Also I do not have rear sensors.

    I had my car checked completely from front to back and the on board computer and nothing is stored as an error.
     
    #25 charles Y, Nov 17, 2014
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    I don't have a picture of it either. Oddly, they don't detail the PCS/DRCC displays well.

    But I think it's not intended as a picture of the back of your car; rather, it's a picture of the car (it thinks) you are about to run into. ;)
     
    #26 rxlawdude, Nov 17, 2014
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