Posted on 04/15/2019 2:31:04 AM PDT by Libloather
Jordan Felo had just finished hiking in the local mountains outside Portland, Ore., several weeks ago and was headed home in his 2010 Toyota Prius when it suddenly lost power and slowed to a crawl.
Felo had taken the Prius to a Toyota dealer a few weeks earlier for a 2018 safety recall. New software was installed to fix an overheating problem in the electrical power system. Yet when Felo hit the accelerator pedal, a key electronic component called an inverter overheated and fried itself.
I was lucky nobody was behind me because I would have been rear-ended, recalled Felo, a salesman at an REI retail store. The car was towed to the dealer, which gave Felo the bad news: It would cost $3,000 to replace the shoe-box sized unit.
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Thought it was interesting that this inverter, which apparently is over heating is supposedly a shoebox-sized unit. Having worked on older Prius cars, I remember the inverter as much bigger than a shoebox. Maybe that’s why the newer unit is overheating. Without that inverter, it’s going nowhere.
Toyota Pius.
I bought a 2015 Prius and drove it for 33,000 miles. The engine light kept coming on and I was nervous. I heard about the cost of the batteries and since Im an old lady I was worried that I could not have board to replace them. So I traded it in for a RAV4. I love that car but I sure do notice the amount of money I spend on gas is a lot higher. I have more peace of mind though knowing I do not own a Prius
Libs, just keep saying to yourselves “we’re saving the planet. we’re saving the planet. we’re saving the planet”...
Great gas mileage. Zero to zero in sixty seconds.
Something similar was going on with my jeep. Lots of cars w/o working 4wd many just limping off the road after the critical software update. Turns out they used the update to Id the defective parts and charged a heap of money to “fix” it. I was able to get a refund after a year.
It’s really rude, but they know people generally won’t bother to fix their emission control system unless the car forces them to do so...and so it does. Limp mode does make sense in some cases, such as driving the car in its condition is bad or risky, but most of the time it is to force the driver to ‘bring it in’ - and that can get nasty when the cost of repair is high, with no warranty coverage.
I am not sure but I think each fleet finds its own way to manage total energy output mandates.
Nice to see your issue ‘resolved itself’...
No Im just frugal
Were there any Priuses parked in the upper levels of Notre Dame?
Askin’ for a fren.
Depends on how it ‘goes out’; as the BATTERY is still hooked up and supplying power to EVERYTHING.
I lost a serpentine belt in the winter and drove 20 miles down the interstate to the next exit.
HOW? one might ask; for the belt turns the fan/water pump.
There was enough air coming thru grill at highway speed to spin fan and turn the pump.
Plus, it was VERY cold outside so not that much heat was being dumped out thru the radiator.
Also; it was daytime and power hungry headlights were not being used. Also; all unneeded accessories were turned off, including the heater fan.
(It was a bit tricky steering though! ;^)
Them mice can also carry the PLAGUE!
Good luck with that. Someone going 40 mi/h (or whatever limping speed is) faster than you is not likely to slow down to your speed to let you change lanes. Try it some time. At best it will set off a massive traffic jam. On the worse side, you will get rear-ended, which will set off a massive traffic jam.
"It stranded me as I got off the Baltimore beltway and headed north on I-83. The car went into "limp" mode (battery only drive) where its highest speed is ~7mph. Not a good situation to be in on a 65MPH highway."
7 mi/h?? On an interstate?
https://priuschat.com/threads/my-2010-prius-goes-into-limp-mode-the-inverter-died.176754/
Guess I forgot the “/S.”
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