Another triangle of sadness, please help me?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by lucasanderson298999, Nov 8, 2023.

  1. Tombukt2

    Tombukt2 Senior Member

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    Yeah that's all kind of funny stuff conking out of the dash yeah I wish that would be a thing The dash would conqu out have the CM monitor display code and that was the end but it seems it never works that way You can always move the ground on your frame bring the door open or trunk open light back on and your dash works for that trip at least till you turn the car off and I've noticed it has to stay off a while an hour plus and then you'll open your door and not see your door open light you know you have no dash but the car will start and work. It's kind of funny actually all the button pushing in the nonsense All you have to do is just move your ground Make it snap crackle one time and you see the hatch open light come on and you're good to go and then if you live in a safe space where people aren't trampling all over you all day like you have a home out in the country You can just park the car and leave the door not completely latch so you can see the little door open light on that's the only thing that's on you have the center lights and all turned off they don't go on with the door and now when you come out to this car it will dash will light up and it will run accordingly seemingly forever. I don't think the capacitor's going bad will ever completely kill the dash per say it'll just make it so you have to move your ground or that type of thing for the next trip. If you don't want to keep doing this put a towel under the hatch lock let the hatch down see the door open light through the hatch window going in the house they can sit like that for days till you leave again unless you're 12 volt is already dying or old or what have you that little LED or what have you is not going to do anything for a couple of days If it does you already had a battery problem. When you get irritated at these antics then you'll get the dash board upfitted with the right capacitors and then if you want you can dump the speaker on the back of that board and then you can have peace and quiet and a display in your car in the car not beeping at you every time a seat belt's not fastened or you're backing up or whatever. Driving pleasure.