If you catch this problem in time, you won't damage the battery. It got to the point when I would power up in the morning, the auto headlights would turn on to a sickly yellow glow, and almost go out before the main relay closed the the Traction battery supplied the circuit. A combination of a 15 minute commute, winter so headlights on, -40 temps so Max Heat and constant electric defrost, all managed to drag the 12 vdc battery down. I had problems the very first winter with my Prius. I think recharging it will not work, as the prius should automatically recharge it but it still fails.Īnyone know if this is possible, and if so, have any local places to do it? I'm in the Los Angeles/OC/Inland Empire area. I was hoping to get the original battery reconditioned and put back in. Because the battery post were so close together, putting on the connectors and it was in the way of the small trunk compartment panel closing.Ĭar is working great now, but I can't close that compartment, and will need to buy a little hose to properly vent out gas. It had a similar size and the plug for the gas vent, etc., but they didn't exactly fit the same. They said it is almost new (looked like it), but that it was not from a prius. Luckily, I went to my favorite place which sells new/used batteries, and they had a similar battery, and am working fine now. I could not even open the door, and trunk. The battery meter shows average 50% charged (not sure if this is the main battery or aux that I'm looking at), but yet it has trouble starting the car this past week, and finally went completely dead. i'm 100% sure mine is bad as I have a 90+ mile daily commute and the battery has problems even after driving all this distance. I've seen threads about replacing the aux battery, but none about whether this battery can be reconditioned.
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