Wednesday, February 1, 2012

We need more light?

Gen 2 Prius came in and wanted more lights on his car.  He wanted to make sure he saw the people walking.  So he wanted us to install two sets of fog lights.  Yes two sets.. hopefully the people will see him after the installation.  I help cut two small plastic grill.  Find electical diagram for the fog light circuit.  Install switch and run new wires to lights.  Then custom mount the two lights.  End result was some beautiful bright fog lights.  Thanks again Greg for teaching me everything.  Awesome.

Near the end of the day our crew all chipped in and help clean the shop.   It's great working with people that that are team players.  Makes work here much enjoyable place to be at.

Just getting started
Hopefully he will see people and the people will see him

Man this is super clean

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

1st day of work

Gen 2 Prius taxi came in with hybrid light and check engine light.   We pulled the codes and got P3000 and P0A80 (REPLACE HYBRID BATTERY PACK).   We checked the freeze frame of P0A80 and noticed one of the battery cells block was below average at 12v normally 14v.   Then we checked delta state of charge and normally its at 0 but we were reading at 43%.  Any reading not 0 on delta SOC shows that the something is not right with battery. 
We sat in the car for about ten minutes and the HV battery suddenly became fully charged.  This is another indication of abnormal behavior because HV batteries normally take longer to fully charge.  After we concluded the HV battery was bad.  I did my first gen2 hybrid battery replacement.  Pretty cool day

Right behind the passenger seat.  

Make sure you remove the service plug before removing the HV Battery