My son has a gen 2 Prius. Hes lately he is getting an intmt red triangle that flashes on while is being drive. There are two different situations. He has seen it flash on, accompanied by the steering stability ( not sure exactly what called) yellow light. This happens while slowing for a turn. The other situation is when accelerating from a stop sometimes there is a long lag before car gets going and also the power seems to cut in and out. This only displays the red triangle.... theres no other warning. I think his 12v battery is maybe 3 yrs old. Could it be that? So he took it over to Autozone to have fault codes read, but there were none, they said. So he left it with Mike Shaw Toyota service dept., which says it will be a 260.00 charge just for the diagnosis. I have done repairs on three Priuses Ive had...never dealt with this problem before. What is this likely to be? I'm sorry he took it to Mike Shaw without talking to me about it first. I would have told him to put a new battery in, and then see if the warning lights are resolved!
Please check your engine oil level immediately..........that's the only time I know of that will make the indications you speak of.
What Tombukt2 is talking about whenever he goes on about the "green car" "turning red" is this: On every one of the gen 2 MFD screens (except the map itself), there is a different icon in the top left corner that identifies the screen. On one of the dozen screens, the "Energy Monitor" screen, the icon happens to be a green car. No matter what screen you happen to be on, if there is a problem to report, a problem display will cover up a top portion of the screen, and have a little red car icon at the left that ends up roughly where the icon of the original screen happened to be. Depending on the vintage of your MFD, it looks like one of these: In both cases, you can clearly tell this is just covering what was on the screen beneath and drawn over it. In the top version, they even gave it "3D" shadows to really make that point. Even in the bottom version, you can tell it has blanked out a top strip of the screen that was showing under it. So the real question is just, do you have the red-car problem icon showing on your MFD? It will show regardless of what MFD screen you have up. If you happen to have the Energy Monitor screen up, and you're not paying much attention, then yeah, it can look like a "green car" "turned red".
And if you look really closely that red car may have a thermometer going right through it looks like an old-timey bulb on the bottom with lines from the old days with Mercury and. Then something's overheating inverter or ice radiator . If belts not on its ice if belts they're and jug full . Inverter pump or fuse . Generally
It's an exclamation point. The red symbol is used for any warning report from the hybrid system. I guess an exclamation point can look a bit like a thermometer, straight tube with a bulb at the bottom. Real thermometers don't have that gap between the bulb and the tube though.
I must have an imported MFD or something I'll fig out how to put up a pic in awhile soon as I make overheat sign again
