Followup to Prius battery woes

[PeterB]

mikebw wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
[quote=GGD]
Maybe a good way to proceed is the following.

Give the 12V battery a good charging by letting the car "Run" while parked.

At the same time, start go through the initial steps in the battery swap process which is mostly removing panels to get access to the battery but stop short of disconnecting the battery.

This will give you an idea of the process, what tools you might be missing, and how comfortable you are in doing it yourself.

Then, after a good charging, if you find that the car still needs jumping as frequently, you'll have a better idea if you should just order a new battery to change yourself, or find a place to do the complete job.

Good ideas, all around.

Also ... should I be concerned of the possibility of theft, if the car is left running unattended like this...?
I assume you have the wireless key thing, so you can start the car by pressing start. Exit the car and then see if you can lock it with you and the key being on the outside. It might not like it, but if that works you should be OK. The car will run without the key until it gets turned off, so don't just leave it ON with the doors unlocked, if you think someone might steal it.
Right, but if someone somehow gets in the car with it running, can't they just drive off with it? (They wouldn't be able to start it up again without the FOB, but they might not care about that...)

Edit: my FOB doesn't start the car, I have to press the On button to do that, but I can exit the car and then just lock it manually with the manual key.