Something strange happened while pulling out of my driveway this morning. Started my '13 Prius Three up as I normally would, and immediately noticed that my steering was looser than usual and a brake light popped up. Tried to shift to drive and it wouldn't budge when I put the normal amount of pressure on the gas. I stepped on the gas harder and my car began moving and it felt like it was in neutral, although I was in drive. Took it for a spin around the block. The whole time it was beeping at me. I went and parked back in the driveway and there was a smell of burnt rubber towards the back of my car. This car is coming fresh off a brake booster and master cylinder replacement so definitely a bummer. My fear is it has something to do with the transmission. I'm taking it to the mechanic tomorrow. Does anybody have an idea of what I could be looking at?
I don't know but I'm too curious to be worried about getting it to the mechanic if you were burning rubber going around the block I might want to jack up the car and see if in fact my wheels will spin by hand and trying to push them round and round It sounds like you're dragging something I'm assuming you're parking brake is not on.? But something certainly amiss and who replaced the brake actuator accumulator? You? You have the software to bleed and all that? Are the lights on the dash about the braking system at all? Very interesting especially the burnt rubber smell We don't really have any rubber to burn except on the tires if they're not going around and around and being dragged.
Can you raise the rear and check how freely the wheels spin? There’s a link in my signature on this (on a phone turn it landscape to see signature), and how mistake in rear brake assembly may cause drag.
The rubber smell is certainly the interesting part to me I don't think you're exhaust should be in contact with any rubber even the mounts or grommets so other than dragging a wheel around on pavement no less which would seemingly be quite loud put the windows down I would think you would hear that or something I don't think our transmissions has any rubber in them per se to burn up I could be wrong I hope not.
Soooooo.... you just had the brake booster/master cylinder replace so you naturally suspect the trasmission????? It's likely not rubber you're smelling, it's the brake material. Did you release the parking brake? You should have it towed back to the place that did the brake work and have them fix it. They should be able to read the code that is setting off the light, as it's likely related to the work they didn't do correctly... And have them replace the overheated pads and rotors that got messed up because of it, at their expense of course.
Who did the work on your brakes? How many miles on the car? Come back and post what your mechanic says. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
