2006 TOYOTA PRIUS Complaints

THE RIGHT HEADLIGHT WENT OUT AND THEN WENT ON. THE PROBLEM HAS RECURRED. NOW THE LEFT HEADLIGHT WENT OUT AND THEN WENT ON. WE READ THAT THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THE 2006 TOYOTA. WILL THERE BE A RECALL? *TR

THE ELECTRONIC DISPLAY INSIDE MY HUSBAND'S CAR HAS BLACKED OUT TWICE NOW. BOTH TIMES IT WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE FIRST TIME, THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO LOCATE THE PROBLEM; THE SECOND TIME THEY WERE ABLE TO DISCOVER WHAT WAS WRONG, TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS A COMMON PROBLEM IN THAT MODEL CAR (APPROX. 2004-2010), THAT THERE WAS NO RECALL FOR IT, AND IT WOULD COST $700 TO REPAIR. IF THIS IS HAPPENING TO OTHER OWNERS, WHY ISN'T THERE ARE RECALL? WHEN IT HAPPENS, THE SPEEDOMETER IS GONE. WARNING LIGHTS, FUEL GAUGE, BACK-UP CAMERA, ETC. ARE ALL OUT. THIS MAKES THE CAR UNSAFE TO DRIVE. *TR

HID HEADLIGHTS ON THIS VEHICLE AND TAILLIGHTS GO OUT ON THERE OWN SOMETIMES JUST ONE OR SOMETIMES ALL LIGHTS GO OUT. PROBLEM IS FIXED WHEN YOU TURN THE LIGHTS ALL THE WAY OFF AND ALL THE WAY BACK ON AND THEY STAY ON FOR THE DURATION OF MY DRIVE OR GO OUT A FEW MINUTES LATER. HAVE BEEN PULLED OVER BY POLICE MULTIPLE TIMES FOR HAVING LIGHTS OUT. HAVE SEEN MANY TOYOTA PRIUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS SAME EXACT PROBLEM. *TR

DRIVER HEADLAMP TURNED OFF. AFTER REALIZING SOMETHING WAS WRONG. I PULLED OVER TO THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD, AND TURNED THE VEHICLE AND HEADLAMPS OFF. I TURNED THE VEHICLE BACK ON AND THE HEADLAMPS AS WELL. BOTH HEADLAMPS WORKED AGAIN. THE DRIVER HEADLAMP CONTINUED WITH THIS BEHAVIOR AND THE PASSENGER HEADLAMP STARTED TO EXHIBIT THE SAME BEHAVIOR ABOUT A MONTH LATER. I FOUND OUT THAT THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR IS COMMON AMONG MY MODEL AND THE 2006-2009 YEARS WITH THE HID HEADLAMP PACKAGE. MANY OTHERS HAVE ALSO EXPERIENCED THIS SAME OCCURRENCE WITH THE HEADLAMPS BALLAST. IT IS NOT THE HID BULBS THEMSELVES, BUT A DESIGN FLAW IN THE VEHICLES ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. I HAVE BEEN IN SOME SITUATIONS WHERE BOTH OF THE HEADLAMPS HAVE TURNED OFF BY THEMSELVES AT NIGHT AND ALMOST WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT DUE TO THE FLAW OF THIS KNOWN PROBLEM. IF I CAN NOT SEE WHEN DRIVING AT NIGHT AND OTHER DRIVERS CAN NOT SEE ME, THE VEHICLE IS NOT SAFE. *TR

PASSENGER SIDE HEADLIGHT WENT OUT. LATER LEARNED THAT HEADLAMP SOMETIMES DIMS WITHOUT GOING COMPLETELY OUT AND THAT TURNING THE HEADLAMPS OFF AND ON WILL TEMPORARILY TURN THE LAMP BACK ON. HAPPENS NEARLY EVERY TIME IN ABOUT 20 MINUTE DRIVE WHEN DARK. DEALER WAS UNABLE TO REPRODUCE PROBLEM AND RECOMMENDED NO ACTION. *TR

I HAVE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY HEADLIGHTS GOING OUT FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW. THIS IS THE SAME PROBLEM DESCRIBED BY OTHER DRIVERS WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT AND CAN BE RESET BY TURNING THEM OFF AND BACK ON AGAIN. FOR THE FIRST FEW YEARS, THE ONLY BULB TO GO OUT WAS THE RIGHT SIDE. THE BULB APPEARS TO HAVE NO BEARING ON THE PROBLEM. I HAVE PUT IN NEW BULBS AND HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. I EVEN TRIED SWITCHING THE NON-WORKING BULB WITH THE ONE THAT WAS WORKING ON THE LEFT SIDE. THE LEFT SIDE WORKED FINE LIKE THIS AND THE RIGHT SIDE CONTINUED TO FAIL. NOW, SEVERAL YEARS LATER, THE LEFT SIDE APPEARS TO BE FAILING ALSO. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE GOTTEN OTHER RECALL NOTICES, TOYOTA NEVER NOTIFIED ME OF A SETTLEMENT IN THIS CASE. AND, BY THE TIME THAT I FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, THE SETTLEMENT HAD EXPIRED. *TR

THE PASSENGER SIDE HEADLIGHT WOULD INTERMITTENTLY GO OFF. IF I TURNED THE LIGHTS OFF AND THEN ON AGAIN THE LIGHTS WOULD BOTH COME ON BUT WHILE DRIVING THE PASSENGER SIDE HEADLIGHT WOULD GO OFF AGAIN. I DRIVE 20 MILES TO WORK. WHEN I WOULD FIRST START THE CAR WHEN LEAVING WORK TO GO HOME, BOTH HEADLIGHTS WOULD BE ON BUT BY THE TIME I WOULD GET HOME THE PASSENGER SIDE WOULD BE OUT AGAIN. I BROUGHT THE CAR TO THE DEALER AND THEY SAID IT WAS THE BALLAST THAT CAUSED THE PROBLEM AND CHARGED ALMOST 1000.00 TO FIX THE PROBLEM. FORTUNATELY I DID NOT HAVE TO PAY THE FULL AMOUNT DUE TO THE FACT I HAD AND EXTENDED WARRANTY. HOWEVER, JUST 2 DAYS AFTER HAVING THIS FIXED THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO THE DRIVER?S SIDE HEADLIGHT. I WILL BE BRINGING THE CAR TO THE DEALER AGAIN. I HAVE READ ONLINE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING TO QUITE A FEW PRIUS OWNERS, PARTICULARLY WITH THE 2006 MODEL. IT ALSO SEEMS FROM MY RESEARCH THAT IT HAPPENS TO 2005,2007 AND 2008 MODELS ALSO. THIS SEEMS TO BE A MANUFACTURER DEFECT AND I FIND IT A BIT RIDICULOUS THAT REPLACING HEADLIGHTS SHOULD COST SO MUCH MONEY. IT COST ME 227.00 TO FIX ONE HEADLIGHT AND 2 TAILLIGHTS DUE TO BALLAST ISSUES AND IT IS MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO COST ANOTHER 200.00. SO ALL IN ALL TO REPAIR HEADLIGHTS WILL COST ME OVER 425.00 AND WITHOUT THE EXTENDED WARRANTY WOULD HAVE COST NEAR 2000.00. IF THIS IS HAPPENING TO SO MAY CARS THERE IS OBVIOUSLY AN ISSUE WHICH CONSUMERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR. MY YEAR PRIUS HAS HAD SEVERAL RECALLS AND OBVIOUSLY HAS ITS FAIR SHARE OF MANUFACTURER PROBLEMS. THE AFFECTED PARTS INVOLVED WERE/ARE THE BALLAST , HEADLIGHTS AND TAIL LIGHTS THANK YOU *TR

I FOUND THAT THERE IS MALFUNCTION ON THE BUTTONS ON STEERING WHEEL, ESPECIALLY INFO BUTTON AND BUTTONS FOR CLIMATE. I RESEARCHED THE PROBLEM ON INTERNET AND I FOUND THE PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY A BAD CLOCK SPRING. ALSO, I FOUND THE CLOCK SPRING IS RELATED WITH AIR BAG MODULE. THERE ARE A LOT OF OWNERS HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM (SUCH AS PRIUSCHAT.COM). I THINK THAT IT COULD BE A RECALL ISSUE. AND I EXPERIENCED ANOTHER PROBLEM. THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL OF MY CAR WAS REPAIRED BY THE RECALL SERVICE BEFORE. BUT WHEN I RELEASE THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL AND TRY TO PUSH BRAKE PEDAL, THERE IS DIFFERENCE OF HEIGHT BETWEEN BOTH PEDALS. THE HEIGHT OF BRAKE PEDAL IS HIGHER THAN THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, EVEN IF I RELEASED THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. SO IT IS DANGEROUS TO OPERATE BOTH PEDALS. WHEN I TRIED TO PUSH THE BRAKE PEDAL AFTER I RELEASED THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, MY RIGHT FEET WAS STUCK WITH THE BRAKE PEDAL. I THINK THE RECALL SERVICE FOR THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL OF MY CAR WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL. OR THERE IS ANOTHER PROBLEM ON THE BRAKE PEDAL OF PRIUS. *TR

2006 TOYOTA PRIUS WITH HID HEADLIGHTS WITH 55,000 MILES IS USED AS A TAXI CAB. ON JULY 11TH, 2012 AND PROGRESSING, THE PASSENGER SIDE HID HEADLIGHT WOULD FLICKER AND THEN TURN OFF COMPLETELY AFTER 5-15 MINUTES OF OPERATION. HEADLIGHTS MUST BE TURNED OFF AND THEN ON TO RESUME NORMAL SERVICE. HID BULB REPLACEMENT DID NOT RESOLVE THE ISSUE. TOYOTA DEALERSHIP ONLY OFFERED TO REPLACE THE HEADLIGHT WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION TO WHAT MIGHT BE CAUSING THE ISSUE. *TR

HID HEADLIGHTS GO OUT RANDOMLY WHILE DRIVING. EACH ONE GOES OUT SEPARATELY, BUT SOMETIMES THEY WILL BOTH HAPPEN TO BE OUT AT THE SAME TIME. WHILE DRIVING, THIS IS CORRECTED BY TURNING HEADLIGHTS OFF AND THEN BACK ON. SAME THING HAPPENS WITH THE YELLOW RUNNING LIGHTS, ONE MAY TURN OFF RANDOMLY. THIS BEGAN HAPPENING IN FALL OF 2011, HOWEVER NEW BULBS (HID AND RUNNING LIGHTS) WERE PURCHASED AND THE PROBLEM STOPPED TEMPORARILY, BUT WITHIN 1 YEAR THE SAME PROBLEMS ARE OCCURRING AGAIN. SIMILAR PROBLEM WITH THE REAR LICENSE PLATE LIGHTS; ONE WILL BE OFF RANDOMLY, BUT SHUTTING THE TRUNK HARD SEEMS TO APPEASE THE PROBLEM. THIS MAY BE A WIRING PROBLEM, BUT THE FRONT LIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE TURNING OFF RANDOMLY. *TR