I bought a 2009 Prius in this condition. It will only start when jumped, and I often have to disconnect the 12v battery for sometime to get it in ready mode/ in drive. I used Techstream to find the following fault codes: Hybrid System P3000-123 Battery Control System P0AA6 Detail Code 2- 526 Detail Code 4- 612 P0A84 Hybrid Battery Pack Cooling Fan 1 Control Circuit Low Air Con. B1423 Open in Pressure Sensor Circuit / Abnormal Refrigerant Pressure ABS/VSC/TRAC C1310 HV System Malfunction Any advice on where to start would be greatly appreciated. Would love to have a normally running prius, only other issue is the AC doesn't blow cold. Not sure if that is related or not. THANKS!
Start with the P0AA6-612. That's why the car doesn't want to start (except when it has just had the power disconnected long enough to forget it has a P0AA6-612, and hasn't rediscovered it yet). There is an electrical leakage path within the battery, which you may find responds to a good cleaning, costing you little more than some tedious labor. Here's one thread (out of many you could search up) to get an idea what that may entail. You may have seen a lot of threads suggesting that high-voltage gloves and safety warnings are overblown, working on the battery is no big deal, all the car's interlocks will protect you, and so on. A lot of that is kind of true when the battery does not have extra electrical leakage paths. When it does and you know that's the reason you're working on it, because that's the code you have, the rules change. You do not know what voltages you will encounter where. Use the gloves. Once that's sorted, you might look at the cooling fan issue. You can deal with the air conditioning at your leisure, if you care about the air conditioning. Don't worry about the C1310; that's the braking computer acknowledging that there are trouble codes in the HV computer, and will go away once you have fixed those.
HV battery assembly Battery ECU System main relay System main resistor Main battery cable No. 2 main battery cable Battery plug No. 2 frame wire Junction block Found the battery cooling fan disconnected. Seems the previous owner was pretty clumsy with his work. Does anyone have a photos or a diagram of the HV Battery assembly circuit?