Overheating just after Dealer engine coolant and inverter coolant replacement

As a noob that just changed own my own inverter pump, I'm wondering if the mechanic plugged the electrical connector back on? You can check that or see if the pump is working. It will vibrate (will feel obvious) when on and you can feel it when you touch the hose close to it or the pump itself.

 

I assume that the engine is overheating, correct, and not the inverter, you really did not say.

The first thing to do is check and make sure the drive belt is installed on the engine water pump. Next, check the coolant level in the radiator to make sure it is full.

Was the engine coolant thermostat replaced during the service?

 

Leave it parked for the weekend and contact dealership.

 

A common problem after a coolant change is air in the system. Check the coolant level and as Mendel said, have the dealer purge the system and add more coolant. When this happened to my 2004 Prius a while back, The dealer had to flatbed tow my Prius back to his shop (I offered to do it myself if they gave me a gallon of SSL coolant) as I was not going to stress my engine by overheating it.

JeffD

 

You probably don't need to take it back to the dealer unless you just want to do that because of the principle of things I wouldn't have taken it there in the first place to have coolant changed and bled and they should have nothing to do with your inverter that should be your engine overheating I don't think you get it overheat light for the inverter overheating you get the red car in the MFD display indicating something's wrong and then eventually the human that owns the car will figure out that the AM2 fuses blown or the pump itself is blown and the plug on the pump or the receptacle on the pump may even be damaged unplugging that and replacing the AM2 fuse will usually put the red car on the MFD back to green but you will have no inverter pump If it's under 70° outside you may never notice any throttling back of charging or any of that above 70 and humid you will If you drive anywhere worth discussing say over 5 mi maybe 10 so if you're under 5 or 10 mi you may never see any throttling back from the inverter but what you have here is engine overheating. Let it sit overnight in the morning before you touch the start button or anything undo the hood lift the hood look at the jug the one that's right behind the radiator where the coolant goes not the radiator cap what's that jug look like Is it full almost to the plus sign in the bottom of the field neck of the outboard tank the opaque jug? If not fill it up to that plus sign that you're looking down at when you're pouring the cooling in put it right at the bottom of that or level with that now start the car. Unfortunately with the Prius because it's so cold natured and all of that unless you're in Texas and it's 100° out You need to take the car for a drive preferably down the state highway black and white sign where you can go like 50 miles an hour Do that for 10 or 12 minutes 15 maybe and then pull over in a parking lot and whip open the hood again If you haven't seen the overheating light just leave the car running it'll stop all by itself in a second and then look at your coolant in the opaque jug again has it dropped bring it up to the plus sign again do a drive again. Check the cooling again now it hasn't dropped anymore. You should be done or you can go back to the dealer and they can use a machine to push the coolant through and make the loop and go back into their machine until there is forcefully nothing in there except red Asian coolant but that's unnecessary but it may be good for your mental health.