shikataganai
Well-known member
Today my RAV4 EV got stuck in a state where it wasn't fully on yet couldn't be turned off, either.
Setting: climate preconditioning turned on via Entune app. I could hear the heater whirring away as I walked up to the vehicle. I unlocked it via the driver's door handle touch pad but pulled open the rear door instead of the front in order to toss a backpack in the rear seat.
When I opened the front door and hit the power button like usual the car went into this weird state as shown in the photo: all warning lights on, HVAC working, stereo/Bluetooth working, but not ready to drive. I tried to shift to Drive but the car just beeped once and refused. What's weirder yet is that I couldn't turn the vehicle off.
Hitting the power button did nothing. Holding it down did nothing. Trying to lock the car just had it yell at me even though the keyfob was in my pocket, not in the car.
I called Carson Toyota and they had no suggestions. I called Toyota Safety Connect and they had no suggestions other than to summon a flatbed. Finally I had the bright idea that this was something related to the climate preconditioning, and fired up Entune on my phone from within the malfunctioning vehicle. Not 20 seconds after trying to start climate preconditioning again via the app the car turned off, finally.
Once off in the normal manner it then turned on in the normal manner in turn, and I was able to drive it the rest of the afternoon without incident.
Weird, eh?
Setting: climate preconditioning turned on via Entune app. I could hear the heater whirring away as I walked up to the vehicle. I unlocked it via the driver's door handle touch pad but pulled open the rear door instead of the front in order to toss a backpack in the rear seat.
When I opened the front door and hit the power button like usual the car went into this weird state as shown in the photo: all warning lights on, HVAC working, stereo/Bluetooth working, but not ready to drive. I tried to shift to Drive but the car just beeped once and refused. What's weirder yet is that I couldn't turn the vehicle off.
Hitting the power button did nothing. Holding it down did nothing. Trying to lock the car just had it yell at me even though the keyfob was in my pocket, not in the car.
I called Carson Toyota and they had no suggestions. I called Toyota Safety Connect and they had no suggestions other than to summon a flatbed. Finally I had the bright idea that this was something related to the climate preconditioning, and fired up Entune on my phone from within the malfunctioning vehicle. Not 20 seconds after trying to start climate preconditioning again via the app the car turned off, finally.
Once off in the normal manner it then turned on in the normal manner in turn, and I was able to drive it the rest of the afternoon without incident.
Weird, eh?