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Bill Testes Toyota did agree to replace the inverter under a Toyota warranty extension. The vehicle is a 2010 Prius with roughly 150k on the...
You're the PriusChat poster with the greatest technical training. Things you've written have been quite helpful to me in recently years on Gen...
I loaned a family member my 2007 Prius without telling her that the gas gauge is drastically inaccurate. (Two bars means you're close to...
The deed was done yesterday. I drove the vehicle to the dealership on surface streets, a distance of approximately 15 miles. It is not easy...
I have a 2010 Prius with the instrument panel looking like a Christmas tree: ABS system off, red triangle of death, LCD screen announcing hybrid...
Thanks guys. I'll buy the idler pulley, a pump and a drive belt.
Tom, is the electric clutch on the water pump pulley or the drive pulley on the crank? And is there a tensioner?
Besides the pump and drive belt (which is a given) what additional pump-related parts should I replace during this job? Vehicle is a 2006 Prius...
Thanks for the replies, PriusCamper and rjparker. The vehicle in question is a Gen 3 (2010) I bought used for my grown daughter 3 years ago....
How common is a head gasket failure at 155k miles that doesn't breach a coolant passage? The engine's running rough (so much so that the vehicle...
Working on my Gen 2 and Gen 3 Prii the last couple of years has sensitized me to the maintenance consequences of late intake valve closure of...
This is all hypothetical about what a revised knuckle design might include, but removing the 4 bolts that secure the bearing assembly to the...
Just spent Memorial Day 2023 replacing a front wheel bearing on a 2007 Prius. I have these observations to share with you: 1. Time to Failure....
In 17 years I've paid for about a dozen front wheel bearing replacements on the Gen II Priuses I've owned, but this weekend was the first time I...
Yes, perfect description: a disk drive trying to find a track on a bum 5.25" floppy. I think a noisy coolant diverter valve has lost signal from...
Thanks, guys, for catching that error. I was confusing the inverter cooling loop with the engine cooling loop. Physically where is the engine...
The sounds of the inverter cooling pump are most apparent when the engine stops and the coolant bottle is being refilled. During this time my...
Never mind. I got this figured out. The correct clips attached to the bumper cover are not U-clips but S-clips. The distinction is that the...
I've mis-described the assembly sequence above. The right and left splash shields are sharing the same U-clips as the bumper cover tabs, not the...
I'm replacing the plastic front end parts on a Gen 2 that was in a fender-bender accident that shattered the bumper cover and splash shields....
