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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 005042807 | Incident Date: Sep, 07 2005 |
| Consumer's City: MECHANICSBURG | Consumer's State: PA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Toyota Motor Corporation |
| Model Name: PRIUS | Model Year: 2004 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Engine and engine cooling:engine |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: JTDKB20U740 | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Oct, 15 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Mar, 01 2004 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: I own a 2004 toyota prius purchased on march 2nd 2004. approximately 4 months after acquiring my vehicle i was merging onto the interstate when i experienced and ice engine failure. all the warning lights came on and i was able to pull to the shoulder of the road using the electric motor. subsequently i rebooted the car and the engine turned over. the next day i took the prius to a toyota dealership. they had the car for six days and apparently performed diagnostics and performed a software fix. recently, on september 8th 2005 i experienced a 2nd occurrence of the ice engine shutdown. this scenario occurred while pulling up to a red light. again all the warning lights came on and the engine shut down. i rebooted the car and took it to the dealership for service. the toyota dealership completed a tsb eg047-04 for recalibrating the engine ecu. note, i did not receive any prior tsb's from toyota regarding the engine problem. *jb |
