general problems of the 2014 Toyota Prius

We were driving on a city street about 25-30mph and the car jerked suddenly and the lights on the dashboard illuminated and the "check hybrid system" message came up as well. The car was able to coast to a nearby parking lot. We attempted to drive the car home and the car stalled in the middle of the street. We were able to push the car off the road and then get it towed. The presented a potentially very dangerous situation as the car had a complete failure while driving in the middle of the road. The Toyota service department ran a diagnosis which returned dtc p0a94. All of this indicates that the car should be covered under the customer confidence program 23te03 however that program seems to only cover the 2010-2015 Prius and 2011-2017 Prius v models and not the Prius c. There are several reports of this same issue happening on the Prius c as well though so it doesn't make sense that it is not covered.

The vehicle stalled while driving 35 to 45 mph. Engine had no power but the brakes and power steering worked.

Break pump , break pump assembly, break actuator. Vehicle has only 91k miles it. Breaks feel rough and slower to react. Too worried to use vehicle. Dealership said it’s a very well known issue and wanted $5800 to fix it.

Car was diagnosed at a Toyota dealership with a brake booster issue reading code 20te07 after my vehicles brakes suddenly would not work and the car continued to jolt forward. The brakes wouldn’t stop the car. According to Toyota, my vehicle is three months outside of the warranty period but under the covered mileage so we are left to repair this defect ourselves. This was a very dangerous situation and could have cost us and our children our lives instead of just the $4800 repair cost. This has happened to both of our Prius’s so this is not a rare issue. Toyota needs to have a plan for these parts failing suddenly and they should all be recalled for safety in my opinion. The experience was very scary and we had zero control over the vehicle when the brakes suddenly went out. Where do I join the class action lawsuit?.

I was driving on the highway during rush hour when a loud beeping noice began. My 15 year old cousin was in the passenger seat and began to check for the source of the beeping. I was driving 55mph on a busy highway with no safe shoulder stop. As I was preparing for the exit, the brakes suddenly became dysfunctional. The pedal was extremely hard to press down and I found myself unable to slow down the car in enough time to avoid hitting upcoming traffic. I found myself in an urgent, life threatening situation and needed to pull over into the emergency lane located before the exit. I could not just consider my safety, but that of other drivers and my 15 year old passenger. She is traumatized. I was able to get the car to stop with my entire weight on the pedal. Once stopped, I scrambled to find the reason for the sudden brake problem, checking if anything rolled under my foot, if the floor mat was loose, if the gear shift was wrong, even checked if I accidentally hit the emergency brake. Nothing was out of place. No new dash lights. I looked in the manual. I had no information. I went to jiffy lube and they performed a diagnostic test and informed me they are unable see all the codes with hybrids because Toyota’s computer can only see just in August I went to Toyota for my oil change, nothing was said about the brakes needing to be fixed and how repairing them now would prevent the failure of the accumulator pump system. If I had known paying $400-$500 for the brakes then would prevent having to pay $3000 to replace a pump. I would have made that sacrifice and went outside of my budget. This is paramount information that should be disclosed to all Toyota customers that take their car in for care and pay. After further research, I strongly believe Toyota employees purposely withhold information from their customers not informing consumers about avoiding pump failure and the need repair their brakes and is complicit in any incident caused by pump failure may cause.

I was dropping my daughter off at school and the car completely shut down on me and turned off in the middle of an intersection. I have just had brakes and oil changed but ever since I got the car codes keep popping up and when checked it’s all good. Front lights keep glitching and even with new brakes there is still a bad sound. My dash computer thing keeps going in and out. It happens a lot more when it rains and makes a sizzling sound I’m afraid to drive it in the rain. I’m besides myself how the car turned off on me and my child we couldn’t move I could accelerate and we almost got hit then another light came on and I couldn’t even turn my wheel. Very dangerous.

The car began to jerk, made knocking noises, miss fires on cylinder 1, 2 and 4, coolant leakages, oil leakages, compression issues and the check engine light keeps turning on and off. My safety has been put into play because, the car would jerk many of times as it would want to stop as I was driving. I would then have to pull over and call for assistance. Per the Toyota service advisor he recommended that I needed a new rebuilt engine kit. The extended warranty company stated that I was negligent with my car and denied my claim and refused to pay for the 10 grand motor and I had to tow my car to another shop. However, the car at this time is still experiencing the same malfunctions. The warning lamps are still showing at this present time and prior to the failure of problem. This car meets the "lemon law guidelines, however, I have been informed otherwise that I don't meet the criteria for lemon law due it being expired sometime last year in oct of 2024. As stated this is a lemon car.

Brakes are not woking at full specification due to brake accumilator having an internal leak c1391.

Good evening, I'm writing to request a callback in regards to my 2014 Toyota Prius which is subject to a recall. "the involved vehicles were designed to enter a failsafe driving mode in response to certain hybrid system faults. Toyota has found that in rare situations, the vehicle may not enter a failsafe driving mode as intended. 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. " I recently just moved back to south florida, I was living in NJ for a few years and had the inverter malfunction earlier this February, 2023, forcing the car to enter the fail safe mode described giving me the warning to "check hybrid system, stop the vehicle in a safe place". The car was at Toyota universe, little falls, NJ for about 45 days, since this was going to take the complete replacing of the inverter and an update of some sort of software. After receiving the car back around March 17th, I moved back to florida about 2 weeks later. This evening around 5:30 returning from work, the car stalled again while I was driving surrounded by dense traffic, wouldn't accelerate with all lights flashing. Thankfully I was able to pull over slowly into a parking lot after which my steering wheel locked, and my car was no longer able to be put into drive or reverse. Car was only able to shift into neutral and park. This was the most terrifying experience of my life had something worse happen in the middle of traffic. I have dropped off my car to the dealership parking lot and will be checking it in first thing in the morning. I'd like to ascertain what I should expect from Toyota manufacturing should this issue be unfixable? I am more than happy to let them attempt fixing it, but I also need to live a normal life and don't feel the need to be responsible for a manufacturing defect putting my life in jeopardy every time I go drive.

My wife's 2014 Prius v failed to run. After towing to service diagnosed as failed inverter. Service records indicate this was serviced as a recall 2/2019. Now Toyota refuses to recognize problem as a warranty issue for repair. Even though recall notice indicates repair or replacement should be free of charge. Breakdown occurred 5/14/2022. Incident started as she was getting on highway. Drove home at 25mph.

The air temperature was probably about 50 or 60 f. On a route I routinely drive , I accelerated up hill normally from 0mph to about 45 to 55 mph. I did not accelerate aggressively. Just after climbing the short hill, the engine suddenly loses all power. I had to pull over. I look under the engine to find five pieces of metal blown out of the bottom of the engine block above the oil pan and oil spilling out onto the ground. The car has about 98,000 miles on it and was maintenance regularly including on schedule oil changes, coolant change, state inspections. There were no check engine lights or electronic error codes to indicate anything was wrong with the vehicle which I would have been able to diagnose and possibly fix. The car had been maintenanced in August/September for winter by myself. On the last maintenance, oil was discovered inside the engine air manifold and throttle body that had to be cleaned out and (the egr was also moderately carbon clogged). I'm very dissatisfied with how Toyota handled my case. They called twice to ask when I wanted to schedule my next service appointment when they had the car sitting on their parking lot for three months. I also wrote them a detailed email similar to this report asking how Toyota could help and that I could not afford to buy another car. The engine failed and it can be inspected upon request. The vehicle had complete loss of power. The vehicle was towed to the nearest dealer. I have seen videos on youtube. Com that show other people replacing blown Prius engines and head gaskets. You would see chunks of metal missing from the engine block. The vehicle was not inspected by the manufacturer police or insurance. I could have been hit by another car from behind especially if the hill were longer like on a mountain side or some other situation. Separate issue: mice enter the two rear ventilation openings to nest in the car. Mice chewed on of the oxygen sensor wires to cause an electrical fault.

My car stalled while I was driving it on 2 separate occasions. It is a 2014 w less than 70k miles: 1/2022 within seconds of 2 or more warning lights going on, the engine stalled. I was able to steer, brake and drive on the electric motor towards home. The electric motor drove another . 5 mile before it also died, leaving me with no power steering or brakes. I was on a slight incline and coasted most of the way off road. The car was towed to our local dealer, which said the intake manifold had failed. Dealer replaced im and related hoses and gaskets. 6/2022 I was driving on a busy interstate at high speed in the passing lane. The car started to lose power and decelerate. I maneuvered to the side of the road and up! the on ramp. Made it to roadside business on remaining battery power.

While driving on the interstate yesterday my Prius computer shut down entirely.

While driving, I received a warning "hybrid system malfunction". Within seconds, the vehicle powered off and the steering wheel locked. I had no control of the car and came to an abrupt stop in lane 1 of a two lane road. I was fortunate that it was late in the evening with few cars on the road, had I been on the highway during rush hour the outcome, due to loss of power and control (steering), could have been catastrophic and perhaps fatal for me or other commuters. I note that in 2014, Toyota notified NHTSA of a recall to, "rectify software in two of the Prius's electronic control units, one for the motor/generator and the other controlling the hybrid system. " further Toyota said, "in rare circumstances, it could shut down the hybrid system itself, resulting in loss of power and the vehicle coming to a stop". This is exactly what happened to me the other night. Toyota claims, in 2014, that "it has received no reports of accidents or injuries related to the problem. " this seems to be an extraordinarily amount of good luck as I could have been easily rear-ended the other night. Curiously, in this NHTSA data base, another owner reported an incident (11439720) on November 8, 2021, that is similar to the experience I had just days prior. And our vins are eerily close. Coincidence? not likely. Does the 2014 recall apply to my car and if not, why not given I experienced the exact same symptoms?.

Unknown. I was basically driving on the freeway, when my car's engine suddenly stopped running. The car was automatically put into neutral and was not able to control the speed of the car, so I had to move to the side of the freeway. As I was sitting in the car, I started smelling burned wire and interior started to fill with smoke. I immediately turned the car off and got oit. As I was standing far away from the vehicle, fluid started leaking and it had caught into fire. The front bumper was completely burned off, as well as some of the engine and electrical parts were affected as well.

On August 28,2020 we were driving in heavy rain for 1 1/2 hrs to fayetteville. Our brake abs and engine light came on. We assumed the lights would go off, when we did not drive it doing the night, but next morning it came back on. We carried to mechanic shop today sept. 1, 2020. They could not read any errors and said need to carry in to a Toyota dealer. We have not set up apt. Just left vm. Hopefully they will call us back today.

Sporatic non start. Now extremely often,.

Originally, Toyota issued a safety recall in 2014 to address the inverter defect in model years 2010 to 2014, an attempt to fix the problem on about 800,000 cars in the u. S. By modifying software that controls the hybrid electrical system. It was intended to fix the overheating problems. The inverter controls the power flowing between the battery and electrical motors. The inverter boosts the battery from 200 - 500 volts. They inspected my car saying it was in excellent condition. After, the software upgrade I had major problems. My original Prius battery with around 65,000 miles stopped holding a charge. My 12 volt battery also died shortly after. And my power outlets in my got super hot and spiratually worked off and on. And my driver seat gets hot when I turn on car even though seat button is off. I am sweating all the time. Plus, I have skin conditions and asma. I talked to dimitri, and they tried to charge me 1200for unnecessary repair. Also, failed to call NHTSA as promised.

While being detailed, puddle light was seen smoking on drivers side door. It melted the body of door and had to be removed. I also have video of it smoking and melting door.

I turned on my vehicle and when I switched gears, from park to drive, it did not register that it was in drive. When I tried to drive away, there was no acceleration and lack of power. My battery was operating at almost max capacity.

Sometimes the car nothing in the car will light up nor will it start. We replaced the battery in the rear. We replaced the fob battery. Sometimes we open the driver's door and shut it and it will make the dash lights go on and the car will then stat when the start button is pushed. The car remains dead sometimes no matter how many times you open and close the drivers door. Come back 15 minutes later and the little red car light on the dash is blinking and the car then will start when start button is pushed. Other times the litle red car light on the rightside bottom of the dash lights remains off and car remains dead.

The driver door and passenger door locks only work sometimes and it seems to be a electrical issue because I have noticed other odd things with the electrical in the car.

The car brakes failed at low speeds (10-15 mph) and bumped into the car in front in a stop-and-go traffic on the wet freeway after a recent rain. The brake pedal went all the way down to touch the floor, as if the brake pedal was disengaged from the braking system and the abs light did not turn on at the time of braking. The car was driving in the straight line and immediately before this I was able to successfully brake the car on the very same trip. So the problem is intermittent. This is the second time with this car, as my spouse also experienced the similar brake failure at even lower speeds (<10 mph) resulting in touching the car in front and minor scratch on the bumper. It was a dry day then and almost similar circumstances. Associated geico claim number is 0423477190101054. We opened a case with Toyota to check the data recorder. Associated Toyota case number is 181112370.

Vehicle stall . Show �check hybrid system � stop the vehicle in a safe place� dealer said probably inverter ipm failed.

All four door lock actuators have failed on my 2014 vehicle. Toyota denies any knowledge of this as a common problem, but the internet shows that it is a problem after only 3 or 4 years of purchase of a brand new vehicle. Repair costs are very high for each door for this problem. There is only one door with key entry.

On Friday, January 12, 2018 I fount the car seat severely smoldering on the passenger side. The care was filled with brown smoke and toxic fumes. The seat was completely burned and melted and toxic residue. Fire department put out fire with water. Car seat heater apparently did not turn off and smoldered all night. Toyota giving me the run around, delaying investigation at least 5 weeks or more. The car was parked in garage, last driven brief distance evening before. Garage now with toxic fumes and residue. Car likely totaled, and Toyota trying to get out of any assistance/responsibility. They are on purpose being very difficult, and forcing me to comply with their agenda, or lose option for their taking some responsibility.

Electric burning smell emanating from front of car smell coming questionably through air ducts which comes/goes and is noted upon starting car and for five minutes duration after start. Increase incidence of burning smell on days when ambient air temperature is 90 or higher. I wonder if I am inhaling toxic fumes . Will consider report of problem to the epa. Checked by pohanka Toyota in early summer "could not duplicate smell problem" no follow-up. Report made to Toyota motors per email and to representative as well at Toyota. Stated " we will report your issue to the administration; "no recommended follow-up. Internet search indicates there are several models of Toyotas with similar complaints. It is about time there would be a recall and something done about this block below asking when did this happen is forced choice for date(so not accurate reflection of the problem); this has been happening on/off since may 2017 s. I did inform the Toyota rep by phone that I would file a complaint with my state attorney general's office and the better business bureau.

This vehicle is a little over 3 months old and has had electrical problems through this period. When put in reverse on occasion it freezes and all the lights on the dash go on and stay on (including the yellow triangle) and the car does not move. The Prius c needs to be shut down every time this happens and restarted to work. This has happened 5 times in the last 3 months since purchased new. Worse yet, the last time when it was put in reverse (yesterday) all the lights froze on the dash however this time the car lurched forward even though the gear shift was in reverse and the dash said 'r' for reverse. The car was purchased new from the dealer.

I was in a parking lot and put the car in reverse. Then I heard a "boom" and I thought that I backed into something, so I quickly put the car into drive. I then felt the car excelerating fast and I was pushing the brake as hard as I could and could not stop the car from moving forward. The car proceeded to excellerate and when over a curb up onto pavement and through a metal fence and bent a 5 inch round metal fencing down to the ground and the car kept going another 30 feet till it finally stopped. You can see the skid marks in the the parking lot.

After parked for 20 minutes, the car is dead, had to jump start. Battery was replaced by the dealer, but the issue was not taking care of. At least 3 more times since the battery replacement, I found my car was again ded after parking, can not even open the door with remote. But all 3 times the car was able to power on after a few minutes on it's own while waiting for tow. . . Above that, the clock, trip odometer and temp settings were resetting on random times since 650 miles, as well as the radio which will turn on and off at random. Dealer replaced the radio but it still does the same. I was told that they (dealer) can't tell anything wrong with the car, and can't do anything about it, unless it's dead while it's in their shop, even after I showed them the photos and videos of the issues.

2014 Toyota Prius. Consumer writes in regards to push start ignition system. The consumer stated the vehicle belongs to his parents. He noticed the engine turned on by itself. He was able to open the door and noticed the power push button was lit which indicated the engine was on. The screen on the center console stated no key was detected. He pressed the power button to turn the engine off. The dealer informed the consumer, if he walked away from the vehicle without turning off the ignition, the vehicle would stay on. The engine turned on because the vehicle was in battery mode to replenish the battery power, when the system detects the battery charge has dropped below a certain level.

I experience lost of power as well as waiting more gasoline, before the electric fuse recall, my average miles per full tank was 436 miles, now is 540 per full tank. , also the ev miles was 8. 5 per charge and now after the fuse replacement is 13. 7 miles per charge, for almost 4 years I have been wasting more gas then normal as well as lost of power.

2014 Toyota Prius. Consumer writes in regards to engine failure. The consumer stated a brown colored alarm appeared on the dash, which flashed on then off, as the vehicle started to slow down. If he tried to accelerate, the light would come on, but no response to increase speed. He managed to pull over, and stopped the vehicle. After a few seconds, he tried to re-start the engine and was successful. The dealer was unable to duplicate, the problem the consumer experienced.