general problems of the 2013 Toyota Prius - part 1

My 2013 Toyota Prius with only 99,000 miles is experiencing a brake system failure. The brake warning light, abs light, and traction control light all illuminate. The brake actuator pump runs every 10 seconds, indicating loss of hydraulic pressure. Safety concern: this issue affects braking performance and disables abs and traction control, creating a safety hazard, especially in emergency braking situations. This appears to be a known issue with Toyota Prius brake actuator assemblies. Toyota previously issued a warranty extension, but my vehicle is now outside the time window despite low mileage. This failure occurred prematurely and without warning. What happened: the warning lights temporarily went off after adding brake fluid but returned shortly after. The pump continues to cycle frequently, indicating system failure.

I was driving and notice abs light and other light came on, then noticed that when I tried to brake it felt weak, had to pump brake, then later noticed a leak on brake fluid. I took car to Toyota and they checked it and said brake booster and booster pump needed replacing and they wanted to charge me 3,000 dollars. I could not do the job so I checked around and the auto one in my area informed me that many Toyota Prius’s had a recall on that issue. I made an appointment with parks Toyota in deland, florida to fix problem but when he got there they told me that my car was not on recall for that but was for battery ev fuse but couldn’t do because my engine light was off. I am having such a difficult time with this car. I cannot risk my life and that of others driving with this brake condition if I can’t have the manufacturer or who ever has to to take care of this issue. So far I was able to get a mechanic to do some adjustments so I can drive. I am being very careful and only use it as needed. I stopped looking for a part-time job because I need this fixed first. I am [xxx] , please tell me if I am able to get this recall show for me. Thanks information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).

My 2013 Toyota Prius has a failed inverter/converter assembly, including the intelligent power module (ipm). This component is critical for vehicle operation and designed to last the life of the car. Premature ipm shorting and inverter failure is a known defect acknowledged by Toyota through multiple recalls and service campaigns for other vins with the same part number. My vehicle is giving codes p0a94 and p0a1a which are also listed in the recalls for other Prius models of similar age. My vehicle experiences the same failure, yet Toyota has denied goodwill coverage, claiming “insufficient service history. ” routine maintenance like oil changes and brake inspections does not affect this component, making the denial unreasonable. There is nothing to service on the inverter. This defect poses a serious safety risk, sudden inverter failure caused total loss of power while driving and loss of power steering, it was difficult to pull my car off the road. This poses a danger to drivers, passengers, and others on the road. Toyota’s exclusion of my VIN from coverage leaves me financially responsible for a known safety defect. I request NHTSA to investigate Toyota’s handling of inverter/ipm failures, the denial of goodwill assistance for affected vins, and ensure that Toyota addresses this life-threatening defect consistently across all affected vehicles instead of narrowing the scope on who gets coverage when this is a dangerous electrical malfunction.

The Toyota brake booster system failed and is no longer safe to be on the road. The car will no longer brake properly and is a danger to anyone else on the road. It was inspected by Toyota prior. The entire dashboard warning lights for the brake system lit up 2 years ago and has fully failed now.

Pulled out of the driveway drove about a 100 ft heard large clunking sound front end dropped down as if there was a flat tire pulled off the highway drove through the grass 100 ft back to my home the car started smoking from the engine compartment and burst into flames. Tried to extinguish with fire extinguishers and water hose while calling 911. Fire department extinguished the fire. Car is a complete loss. There was an oil leak trail from where the car first drop down through the grass. The car did not have a previous oil leak. The car had 300,000 miles on it. No one was injured.

My 2013, Toyota Prius recently suffered a sudden hybrid system failure with dtc space p0a0f and a check hybrid system warning. This matches the symptoms described in nhts a safety recall 20v369000. Your recall look up tool shows my VIN is not included. However, I have never received this recall repair, and my failure is identical to the documented safety issue. I am requesting help in getting Toyota to complete a goodwill repair or warranty extension review as this is clearly a safety related inverter failure for which Toyota has acknowledged responsibility and similar vehicles.

My electronic brake booster failed at just under 215000 miles, causing a brake line to snap. I now have to get the car towed 40 miles at my expense for a costly replacement of this major component, which Toyota already conceded was faulty by virtue of extending the warranty to 2023.

Hybrid system fail safe. I was driving on the highway and the car started to slow down on its own. There were no warning signs. I was able to pull over in time. I turn my car off and when I try to start it, it stalled. I couldn't drive off. Three hours later hybrid system fail error appeared, stating for me to pull over. I could have gotten in an accident.

Rear hatch does not have manual release. Had to have the rear hatch pried open when the battery failed.

The hydraulic break pump system failed, causing my brakes to go out for a minimum of 10 seconds while I was driving. It put me and my passenger at risk for collision until they abruptly came back on but weren’t working well. The vehicle has been inspected by Toyota itself, and there were no warning lights until the system itself failed.

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In less than 30 days after having bought the car, the brake booster system went out and the dealer is requesting I pay despite this being apart of the massive Prius recall.

The contact owns a 2013 Toyota Prius v. The contact stated that while driving approximately 65 mph in stop-and-go traffic and applying the brake pedal to decrease in speed the vehicle failed to decrease in speed immediately. The contact had to apply an excessive amount of pressure for the vehicle to decrease in speed. The slip indicator light, brake system failure, and anti-lock brake failure warning lights are illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a certified mechanic who informed the contact that code c1391 which showed on the diagnostic machine. The dealer stated the brake booster pump needed to be replaced. The mechanic informed the contact that the failure was related to the customer support program 20te07 with the NHTSA id number 10184564 (service brakes, equipment, equipment adaptive/mobility). The dealer was contacted and informed the contact that the warranty coverage was associated with the customer support program. The vehicle had not been repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred the contact to the NHTSA hotline to file a safety complaint. The failure mileage was 79,000.

I had just dropped off my daughters at school. On my drive back home, this trip is roughly an 8 mile round trip distance . I heard (then saw) an explosion coming from the rear passenger side of the car. I noticed flames and proceeded to steer the car (car shutdown) towards a side street. Shortly after I was able to put car in park, making sure that it was out of any potential danger to others. I quickly jumped out of my car. This followed by a loss of fluids under the hood and smoke. After everything subsided I called a tow truck and had it towed to my home. It has been parked outside and I am so discombobulated about this whole incident that I do not know how/where to even began with the next step. I have no clue how this happened but what I do know is that by no means should a vehicle ever create a fire .

Parts failed: accumulator/brake actuator and brake pump 5/21/I dropped off my car at the coggin Toyota dealer in jacksonville, FL to replace all (4) brake pads 5/22/I picked up my car during lunch and their multipoint inspection passed with no issues 5/23/maintenance lights came on the dash during lunch, brakes were not responsive, and my car was beeping non-stop. I dropped off my car to coggin Toyota to check the issue. They estimated $2722. 81 before tax to replace brake actuator and brake pump because there is an internal leak in the brake actuator. 5/24/the Toyota advisor stated that my car did not qualify for their extended warranty to replace the parts. He also stated that if I pay for the repairs, they will only cover the parts for up to 12k miles or 1 year.

The abs system and brake lights started showing on my dash and when I put my foot on the brake it makes a noise and the car shakes hard to brake when to the mechanic they said is the abnormal leak acc pressure code c1319.

While driving on the freeway, all of a sudden the abs, slip indicator, brake, and brake system lights lit up on the dashboard. I immediately switched lanes to one that had no cars in front/back of me since I was going about 55mph. I tested the brakes since I saw the brake lights appear. It felt as though when the brake pedal was pushed, they didn't activate until you reached a certain point, almost to the point where the pedal needed to be fully pressed to stop. It didn't feel like the brakes were fully functional and behaving in the way they were prior to the lights appearing. I was afraid the brakes would give out. Then I noticed a whirling/hissing sound that was consistent. The sound was easier to hear when the car was at a complete stop but it could still be heard while driving. We took the car to a local Toyota dealership/service dept to get it evaluated. They diagnosed the car saying it needs immediate attention and is not safe for driving since it involves the brakes. The repair invoice stated various brake warning lights on c1391.

There was a driver side collision and the airbags did not deploy. Brakes do not slowly apply they slam down causing vehicle to slide/skid in emergency braking, abs does not function properly. The dealership recently did an appraisal (4/2/25) on the vehicle that states “lost communication with side airbag sensor lh, side airbag sensor lh initialization incomplete, front speed sensor rh & lh circuit, and d- door motor ecu communication stop”. Insurance company inspected vehicle after crash, and there was a police report filed. There were no warning indicators prior to incident or after.

The brake actuator keeps buzzing every 3 seconds or so the entire time the car is on and even after I turn the car off and get out. The brakes make a wierd burping noise and the pedal depresses with each noise if I am stopped at a red light or stop sign with my foot on the brakes. All of the brake, abs, and traction control lights lit up. The regenerative braking is no longer working.

Traction control warning light and abs!! warning light and brake warning light are remaining on in my dashboard when I am driving, then my brake changes to hard to press that is abnormal. Mechanic told me my car’s error code relate with this issue is “c1391-leakage in accumulator abnormal”, so it is related with “abs module” and “abs accumulator pump”.

Hybrid battery overheats after an hour of driving at high speeds. Car battery shuts down and becomes immobile.

"cooling performance of the hybrid battery is low" warning light turns on every 4-5 months on my 2013 Toyota Prius. Apparently, Toyota issued a bulletin to Toyota service departments engine/hybrid system section hybrid/battery control system market USA. This info was never disclosed and is costly to repair every 4-5 months due to excessive buildup of dust, lint, or debris in the hv battery intake filter or cooling fan. When it first went off in June 2022 my vehicle was still under warranty up to the two additional repairs in December 2022 and may 2023 (for which the Toyota dealership repair department didn't provide me a ticket either time but made the repair), and again now (August 2023). This is an issue that could cause the battery to fail while driving. Additionally, this issue is highly inconvenient, expensive and highly concerning. This ongoing issue affects the safety and value of my car if this issue must be repaired every 4-5 months or "every 5,000 miles). This information was never made public to Prius owners I don't believe as I never received notice. I would've sold my car sooner had I known. Here is the Toyota document I received on 8. 21. 23 from marina del rey Toyota t-sb-0062-20 dated June 18, 2020.

2013 Prius inverter assy and coolant pump are out. The car is in greece with military. Toyota has refused all assistance to my daughter.

Problem one: water in the passenger taillight. I got on youtube to find a video to repair it, and guess what? the person in the video was replacing his taillight for the exact same problem! ps. I uploaded a picture, and it's sideways! but if you look closely, you can see the water line! can I get a refund if I get the dealer to replace this?.

While in line at a church food bank, with cars in front and in back of me, the Prius c suddenly lunged forward. While my foot was on the brake, I hit the car in front of me. The impact was strong enough to cause almost $1400 worth of damage to the car in front of me and more than that for my car. My car's fender is damaged as well as the lights and hood of the car. My sister was in the passenger seat and nephew in the back seat. My sister told me that all she could see when the sudden movement started was my foot on the brake. She said that from where she was sitting, she could not see if my foot was on the gas pedal but could clearly see when my foot was on the brake. So lucky that there were no injuries either to the husband and wife in the car in front of me nor to my passengers. There is no reason for me to have accelerated that fast when the car in front moved a fraction of feet at a time. I would release the brake and the car would move slowly until I applied the brake again. The Prius was inspected by Toyota at a dealer and we were told they could find no sign of anything wrong with the car. There were no warning lights or messages before the sudden acceleration happened. Due to the possibility of it happening again, we decided to park the car in case any litigation could be processed. We have been denied by many law firms due to the fact that there were no serious injuries and the age of the car. About a month after the incident, we bought a new Prius and if unable to litigate, will sell the car for parts. My fear is that it may happen again and could seriously injure or kill someone or the driver and/or passengers in our 2013 Prius. We will not allow it to be driven again and will either junk or sell for parts. Is there any recourse for us to pursue to be refunded for the damage that we paid to the couple whose car we hit, a rental until we bought the new car and refund for the 2013 Prius. Thank you very much for your attention.

My 2013 Prius is having issues with the interface and it has been recalled and I don't know what to do from here.

Driving on a highway on my way to work suddenly the my 2013 Prius c engine completely stops. The check engine light and check hybrid system light came on. The car completely shuts down and now I'm a sitting duck good thing people slew down for me and even help me push my car to the side of the road safely. This is a very dangerous situation and needs attention. Ived taken my car to antioch Toyota and emphasize that I saw 2 recalls on this website but the did not believe me and they are charging me over $4000 to fix it. It's not right for them to just check their system and not check a NHTSA website for recalls and complaints. It's very irresponsible for them not to check for recalls.

I am having problems with rodents getting into my car. I fear that they are chewing on electrical wiring and there is possible distraction to the driver. When I was driving (car was moving) a mouse crawled up on my shoulder. These problems appear to be a problem with this model Toyota and could cause a distraction to the driver and a driving issue with wiring.

Recurring "check hybrid system" issue = jov software update failed�this is my 2nd complaint (11298645)�re. The non-safety of my Prius. Dec 2019, the jov software update failed. I was lucky to be driving in a parking lot as otherwise I wouldn't be here writing to you. My car stopped working entirely & abruptly. I drove it only for 1. 2 miles that day. It didn't go into a fail-safe driving mode & didn't go into neutral either. There're 3 witnesses. It got towed to Toyota hollywood who accused the car's power loss on the regular battery. The bad overheated inverter caused it & drained the battery surely. � Toyota's executive office send out a fts inspection who drove the car also to recreate the dtc code w/ tests & thereafter said it's safe to drive. False assessement. The hybrid warning msg appears again on January 16. �I drove it only for 1. 6 mi that day. I started my car, the warning msg remained on display until I drove it home for 1. 6mi going 15mi/hr. The public knows: "the inverters have been overheating, causing the software that controls the vehicles to shut down the power or put the vehicle into what is known as a limp-home mode that is supposed to allow drivers to get to the side of the road safely. " now, Toyota culver city has my car since Jan 18; they could only see a "low voltage battery" issue & aren't sure. �Toyota has found that in rare situations, the vehicle may not enter a fail-safe driving mode as intended,� the statement said. �if this occurs, the vehicle could lose power and stall. While power steering and braking would remain operational, a vehicle stall while driving at higher speeds could increase the risk of a crash. " what will it take for the largest auto manufactures in the world to replace my inverter? a crash. I hope not. � thank you for assuring safeness on the road. Sincerely, (xxxxxx) redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).

I was driving my Prius 2013 model in a parking lot on 12/24/2019 when it�abruptly (without prior warning messages) shut down with this message: "check hybrid system stop the vehicle in a safe place. "� my car would not move an inch, didn't go into limp mode and didn't go into neutral either. �my Prius had a 2nd recall software update in 2019 and it�was suppose to prevent my car from shutting down�completely�and should have gone into failsafe mode but that did not happen and the software update seems to be just a bandaid. It was towed to a dealership who didn't look at it for 2 days due to the holidays and the bad inverter drained the normal battery and the hybrid warning code with it. � the dealership did not replace the inverter as they said they couldn't recreate the dtc code which I believe doesn't qualify for not wanting to ensure safety after I had 2 witnesses seeing the hybrid system inverter failure as well. � where is the original dtc code? it should not evaporate after a bad inverter drains the battery and I have the hybrid warning message on video but was told by the dealership and�manufacturer that it's not sufficient. �and they did not offer to check the�inverter or�the igbt to ensure its�safeness. Instead, I was asked to pick up my car after they fixed a 'battery cell' issue that was never the problem until it was at the dealership. I picked up my car today still with a bad inverter,�an accident waiting to happen and I hope it won't be on a freeway.

While driving on rte. 24 south in massachusetts (around brockton/bridgewater/ taunton, MA) the caution light began flashing (triangle with exclamation). I pulled over at the nearest rest stop to see if there was any observable problem, but I could not detect anything specific. I got back on the highway; and the light continued beeping intermittently and then about a mile later I felt a shift in the transmission and suddenly I was in neutral, quickly decelerating from 65 mph. Thankfully I was able to pull over safely, at which point a new message was on my dash telling me to pull over, that there was something wrong with my hybrid system! we (the tow truck guy and I) noticed oil under the car and confirmed it was clean oil, and I saw another spot in my driveway when I got home. I have surmised that when I got my oil changed last week, something might have happened to cause the leak, which is in fact the case and now my engine needs to be replaced (the repair shop has owned the error and is paying for this). However my concern that I wish to register is that the car should have been able to tell me not to drive it, not just a caution light that could have meant anything. I could have had a very serious accident. And when I called the dealership from which I bought the car, no one called me back (I tried three times and was disconnected once) braintree Toyota. (781) 848-9300 this seems like a defect that needs looking at. Being thrown into neutral going 65 miles per hour as a response to an engine leaking oil is not ok. There should have been a warning not to drive.

Hard to read the panel when light stays on. After car is shut down the light stays on . Car is stationary.

I was in los angeles picking up my two friends on whitley avenue, this street is on a bit of an incline. I was driving my Toyota Prius and pressed the "park" button. Instead of parking, the car started to roll backwards and went into neutral. The gear shirt is separate from the park button so I know for a fact that I did not put the car in neutral. I attempted to press the power button on "park" button on the car. I even tried to chage the gear shift to "d" (for drive) repeatedly. Nothing I tried at the time was working and whitley avenue intersects a very heavy traffic street, franklin avenue so I needed to stop the car before it went into this street. I turned my wheel to hit my care against curb so that it would stop rolling. This resulted in my car causing a domino effect and hitting a second car, which hit another car, which hit another car. In total my car and three other cars were affected by this impact. My trunk completely shattered and the stuff from it flew into the car that I hit directly hit (this trunk also completely shattered). The trunk of the third car also completely shattered. My car is now totaled and I would like to find out what happened. After the accident I was speaking with people in the area and another lady informed me that she had seen another Prius roll uncontrollably down that hill as well.

I have been calling several Toyota dealers regarding this recall and none of them have got to me with an appointment yet. I am tired of wasting time waiting for their responses for a couple of months.

4 or 5 times since I had the recent hybrid software update, I've had trouble starting the car, especially when the lights are set to auto or on, when first starting in the morning. Sometimes turning the lights off enables starting, but not always. My Toyota dealer checked the battery and electrical and said all is normal - but it's clearly not.