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Created October 1, 2024 00:27
Gen 2 Prius (2003-2009) brake light modification and fix

Posting on Github Gist due to blog site being broken, normally this post can be found at https://blog.numselli.xyz/?action=view&url=2003-2009-prius-brake-light-fix

Notes:

  • This guide goes over modifying the cars' signaling devices in a way that may not be street-legal in your area, please check your local laws before attempting this modification.
  • This is the way it was for me and it might be different for you, double-check the wiring diagrams, voltages, and polarity before making changes.
  • I take no responsibility for damaged property or violated laws, do this at your own risk.

The issue:

My left brake light had intermittent issues, sometimes it would work at full brightness, sometimes dimly, and sometimes not at all. This is a known issue in this generation of the Prius (gen 2). Toyota decided to make the brake light nonuser replaceable and the only way to replace the brake light is by replacing the entire assembly. Repl

What happend

I was backing up the virtual computer that hosts all of my stuff like the counting bot and it corrupted the data on the virtual computer. instead of leaving it I attempted to save the data but I was tired and I did not read the warning saying I was about to delete the virtual computer. I did not have any backups and data recovery attempts were unsuccessful.

What data was affected

Everything that I host that includes the following (from memory):

  • counting bot
  • historical growth trends for the bot
  • website analytics
  • my public photo gallery (i have a backup of this)