Prius gen 2 Death triangle randomly appears

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion' started by StillKedar, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM.

  1. StillKedar

    StillKedar New Member

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    Hi Gurus,

    Prius iTech 2004 (Australia)

    I just did the hybrid battery reconditioning and I am pretty sure all the cells are healthy as I did a 2 min load test on each cell and then paired them correctly. However there seems to be a weird issue happening.

    Issue : If I drive without cruise control or turning the aircon on, it drives perfectly no codes at all. However, If I turn on either of them, then after I drive for 10 mins it gives me death triangle and the code on OBD scanner says P0000 & P3021. And when this happens the hybrid battery fan starts running as well as Engine starts running too and fuel consumption shows 99.9L/100kms. Even if I park the car the engine still keeps running and show that fuel consumption rate.

    I initially thought the inverter coolant pump is dead so I replaced it with a new one, also did the bleeding and coolant top-up. Then I thought MAF sensor could be playing up so I took it out gave it a nice clean with MAF cleaner, It didn't look dirty at all it was super clean as is. Even after this the issue still occurs.

    My guess - Hybrid battery fan 'Plug' malfunction. Could it be possible? I saw on YouTube a guy mentioned even after replacing the hybrid battery with new one, the code was still flashing and then a Toyota engineer bypassed the connection of hybrid battery fan and that fixed the issue.

    Attaching the Hybrid battery monitor report from Dr.Prius app while I was driving. No issues occurred as I didn't use Aircon or Cruise, but if you can look at the report and let me know if something looks suspicious.

    Any help is appretiated!
     

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  2. Tombukt2

    Tombukt2 Senior Member

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    Take a look at your hybrid battery fan plug in the back right rear quarter and see what you got We got a lot of corrosion there a complete pin missing something you can just jump the wire across the plug and solder and tape it in or whatever you want to do for connection and that should take care of that if that's what's the problem that's a pretty easy fix A lot of people here in the States have to do that because they catch it too late and then you can push that plug and the new connections you made further in to the body panel and it'll be out of the way of future leaks water whatever seems to work well here anyway we get quite the rainy season.
     
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