u/ManyHope5842

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▲ 142 r/prius

2005 Prius (second gen)

She drove about 25 minutes mostly on the highway, pushing 70 mph. As we pulled into the parking lot of our destination I noticed from the passengers sear that the dash was suddenly lit up. That’s when we figured out that the ebrake was still on (the warning light to disengage the ebrake before driving doesnt work on my car.) Brakes smelled like they were burning. I just replaced my rear drum brakes and brake cylinders last month and I thought that maybe if we let it sit overnight the dash lights would go away. The next morning I took the covers off and inspected the drum brakes, brake cylinders and brake line and saw a little fluid on the seals, but no other obvious damage. I’ve driven around 200 miles in the last few days since (out of necessity) and the car feels normal, but please advise me if I’m wrong. I also marked my brake fluid was when I changed my brakes and the level has not changed. The dash lights have not gone away. Any suggestions??

u/ManyHope5842 — 10 days ago

I got this car used, and replaced the spark plugs myself about a year ago. Not knowing at the time that I should, I didn’t replace my coils along with them. I’ve put at least 60k miles on it since.

Before replacing them I had misfiring in cylinder 2, 3, and I think 4 too. The codes stopped after. I regularly have to top off my oil, at first after maybe 4k miles, but today I did it after just 2.5k. (I usually change after 5.) Sometimes when I’d put oil, I wouldn’t wipe up what I spilled. (My mistake.) But I decided to clean some of the residue and check my spark plugs today and saw this.

2005 Toyota Prius w/ 1.5L 4 cylinder engine. The car has close to 400k miles on it (the odometer stops reading at 299,999 miles.) I do my own oil changes and reset my trip odometer each time so I somewhat keep track of my mileage that way.

u/ManyHope5842 — 16 days ago