2006 TOYOTA PRIUS Complaints

BREAKS, IBS AND OTHER LIGHTS CAME ON DURING A ROAD TRIP. BREAKS SIENGSGED AND I HAD TO PRESS HARDER AND 'PUMP' IN ORDER TO BREAK. TOOK TO MR. TIRE TO CHECK -AND REPLACED BREAKS AND FLUSH. LIGHTS STILL ON. TOOK TO THE DEALER- IBS ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY FAILURE. QUOTED REPAIR OVER $2400. APPARENTLY, SOME OWNERS OF THIS MODEL RECEIVED LETTER FOR WARRANTY AND EXTENDED WARRANTY FOR ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY. DEALER DID NOT MENTION THIS OPTION AT ALL. HTTPS://ATTACHMENTS.PRIUSCHAT.COM/ATTACHMENT-FILES/2017/12/136422_PRIUS_2ND_GEN_-_BRAKE_ACTUATOR_WARRANTY_EXTENSION.PDF

THE RIGHT SIDE HEAD LIGHT ON MY 2006 TOYOTA PRIUS WILL TURN OFF ON ITS OWN. IT WILL WORK AGAIN IF I SHUT ALL THE LIGHTS OFF AND TURN IT ON AGAIN. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO HAPPEN WHILE THE CAR IS STATIONARY, BUT WILL TURN OFF SOON AFTER THE CAR STARTS MOVING. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT IS ON A BUMPY ROAD, MOVING SLOWLY, OR ON A HIGHWAY. IT WILL TURN OFF WITHIN SECONDS TO SEVERAL MINUTES. I TOOK IT INTO THE DEALERSHIP AROUND JULY 8TH, 2019 WHEN I FIRST NOTICED THE PROBLEM. THEY SAID THERE WAS NO SIGNS OF ANY DAMAGE AND SAID THERE WASN'T ANYTHING THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. SINCE THEN I HAVE JUST BEEN SWITCHING THE LIGHTS OFF AND BACK ON WHEN IT HAPPENS. BUT THEN LAST NIGHT ON NOVEMBER 7, 2019 BOTH LIGHTS WENT OUT WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON A PUBLIC ROAD. IT HAPPENED AS I ACCELERATED AFTER A FULL BREAK.THANKFULLY TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF AND ON AGAIN WORKED. THE RIGHT SIDE TURNED BACK OFF AGAIN THAT NIGHT, BUT BOTH DID NOT SHUT OFF AGAIN AFTER THE INCIDENT.

THE HID HEADLIGHTS ARE BOTH OUT, AFTER BEING ON MAYBE 5 MINUTES. FROM EVERYTHING I HAVE READ ONLINE AND FROM MY MECHANIC, THIS IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH MY MODEL OF CAR, THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS. THE BALLAST IS FAULTY, AND WOULD NEED TO BE TESTED PRIOR TO REPLACING A HID LIGHT. THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR MONTHS, AND I SIMPLY DO NOT DRIVE AT NIGHT AS A RESULT. WITH THE TIME CHANGE, THIS IS TO DIFFICULT.

HEAD LIGHTS RANDOMLY GO OUT WITHOUT WARNING. TURN SWITCH OF THEN ON AND THEY GO BACK ON FOR AWHILE. SOMETIMES ONE HEADLIGHT. SOMETIMES OTHER OR BOTH. NOT SAFE WHEN DRIVING IN DARK AND LIGHTS DISAPPEAR IN MOUNTAINS ON VACATION AT NIGHT!!!

WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY CRUISING AT HIGHWAY SPEED I SUDDENLY RECEIVED A LOUD CONTINUOUS BEEP AND MY ABS , BRAKE , AND (!) ILLUMINATED. I ATTEMPTED TO STOP AND I HAD NO BRAKES EXCEPT WHEN THE PEDAL WAS ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR IT FELT AS IS IT WAS JUST PULLING THE REAR DRUMS. IT TOOK A WHILE TO STOP AND I SIDE SWIPED THE MEDIAN BARRIER TO AVOID A COLLISION WITH THE VEHICLE IN FRONT OF ME AS TRAFFIC WAS BUILDING. I ASSUME IT WAS THE BRAKE ACTUATOR THAT THERE WAS AN EXTENDED WARRANTY FOR ALMOST A DECADE LATER BUT NO RECALL. FOR SOMETHING SO DANGEROUS I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW THAT ISN'T A RECALL.

BOTH OF MY HEADLIGHTS WENT OUT AT THE SAME TIME THE OTHER DAY NOW THE FACT THAT BOTH OF THEM WENT OUT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME ALREADY TELLS ME THAT ITS NOT THE BULB,BALLEST OR ANYTHING OTHER THEN AN ELECTRICAL ISSUE BECAUSE EVERYONE IS HAVING THIS PROBLEM AND THEY HAVE CHANGED BOTH BALLASTS AND BULBS AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED OVER AND OVER AGAIN, PLEASE MAKE THIS A RECALL BECAUSE IT IS VERY UNSAFE

RIGHT FRONT HEADLIGHT OCCASIONALLY GOES OUT. SOMETIMES IT WORKS WHEN I SWITCH THE LIGHTS ON AND OFF AND ON AGAIN BUT MOSTLY IT HAS ME DRIVING DOWN THE STREET AT NIGHT WITH ONLY THE LEFT HEADLIGHT VISIBLE. I'M SCARED TO DRIVE AT NIGHT, KNOWING THAT MY RIGHT HEADLIGHT WILL MOST LIKELY ACT UP AGAIN. I EVEN TOOK EVERYTHING APART TRYING TO GET TO THIS HEADLIGHT TO CHANGE THE BULB BUT FOUND THAT THE CURRENT BULB WAS WORKING FINE. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!! I CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE WORKING HEADLIGHTS AND I DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO GET PULLED OVER BY A COP AND ISSUED A TICKET!!

ABS ACTUATOR FAILURE. THERE WAS A RECALL THAT WAS GOOD UNTIL 2017 AND 150K MILES. MY VEHICLE HAS 192K MILES. I WAS BACKING OUT OF MY DRIVEWAY AND THE THREE ABS LIGTHS CAME ON AND MY BRAKES FAILED. I SCANNED THE COMPUTER USING AN OBD AND IT INDICATED FAILURE.

MY CAR OVERHEATED SUDDENLY, SHOWED MULTIPLE WARNING LIGHTS, AND WAS DIAGNOSED AS HAVING A FAILURE OF THE ELECTRIC WATER PUMP --SYMPTOMS EXACTLY IDENTICAL TO THOSE DESCRIBED IN !2V536000. MY CAR DID NOT STALL BUT HAD THE SECONDARY CONDITIONS SHOWN WHEN TOYOTA ENGINEERS TESTED THE LIKELY RESULTS OF FAILURE OF THE FAULTY COIL WIRE.

ON MOVING CAT, I KEEP GETTING INTERMITTENT BREAK ALARM WITH PUSH BACK OF BREAK PEDEL AND INABILITY TO APPLY BREAK. IT'S SCARY. I TOOK IT TO TOYOTA OF TAMPA BAY ON, AND THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY PROBLEM.