We have a 2005 Prius and experienced a strange situation last weekend and got no good explanation from the dealer:
We stopped on a fairly steep gravel road. When we tried to start up the hill again, the wheels slipped a little, and the "slippery road" light flashed on the dashboard. But the car would not move! It wasn't that the wheels were spinning gravel, I could floor the accelerator and the car wouldn't do anything. We had to back down to road to start again. I tried this again later with the same result. The dealer told me that I might want to call the Toyota customer relations line but I didn't want to.
Any ideas of whether this is a design fault or just a service problem?
We stopped on a fairly steep gravel road. When we tried to start up the hill again, the wheels slipped a little, and the "slippery road" light flashed on the dashboard. But the car would not move! It wasn't that the wheels were spinning gravel, I could floor the accelerator and the car wouldn't do anything. We had to back down to road to start again. I tried this again later with the same result. The dealer told me that I might want to call the Toyota customer relations line but I didn't want to.
Any ideas of whether this is a design fault or just a service problem?