20 Most Recent 2008 Toyota Prius - Page 7 Questions & Answers

It's an LED for an aftermarket alarm system, it means the alarm is armed, remove the key from the ignition and push the button on the back and hold it in, turn the key to on and wait until the light stops flashing, turn the key off and remove it, the next time you turn the key on the light should stay off

A simple jump start with battery cables should get the car started and recharge the battery. If you don't like dealing with battery cables, there are products that attach from inside the car using the cigarette lighter to jump start the car that work very well.

The key has be bought from Toyota dealers.If the key is from Ebay or from any other online source and that key is already got programmed once, then that same key will not get accepted.------

programming a smart key into the car's computer requires proprietary software that only Toyota appears to have.--

Due to digital encryption, you cannot just enter a "number" into the car's computer.

The car's computer has to be linked into a Toyota diagnostic computer of some type, in order to get the Toyota car to accept the "ID code" of the new/replacement smart key.Due to this this key replacement is done by Toyota only.In some rare cases, if non-used key is bought online then in some cases it works by entering the code.-------

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But if key is not accepting the code, then that key needs to be reprogrammed by the dealer or new un-used key from dealer is required.Which needs to be reprogrammed and that will work.-------

This will help.Thanks.Helpmech.

call a toyota dealer.

bad ground will do it check all grounds

This just happened to my 08. What was wrong with yours?

This the hybrid master warning light, which means the system has detected a malfunction, there are many causes that turn the light on, there are about 24 computers involved, the best advise I can come up with is that you have the toyota dealer check this and diagnose it, this may also still be under the powertrain or hybrid vehicle warranty

toyota needs to reset your ecu