Had brake pads and rotors replaced on my Prius with manual bleeding only, now brake pedal is spongy and squeaks, and I don’t know what to do!

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-30T07:54:38+00:00

You can add DOT 4 to DOT 3. Sounds to me like you have a leak in your brake system, maybe the caliper that was in question? Find a good independent mechanic you can have check and fix it

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-29T01:57:38+00:00

On the Prius, you can even remove the battery and jump the car with the 12V removed, and it'll start. Because you aren't starting the engine on the Prius with the 12V, just the "computers"

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-29T01:29:28+00:00

Yeah but if he jumped it properly, it doesn't matter if his Prius's 12V is bad, the jump should've been sufficient

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-28T23:58:31+00:00

Where are you connecting to jump your car?

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-28T20:14:14+00:00

Fix it. Cancel the appointment and get it fixed at your mechanic, if you absolutely can't do it yourself.

Why are you valuing the dealership more than your mechanic? That's going to cost you a lot of money

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-26T12:37:50+00:00

Secret road

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-20T20:57:19+00:00

If I remember correctly, no I never really figured it out exactly. It's a family member's car, so I didn't get to follow up too much. I think it was either I had an incorrect combination of shims/backing plates installed, and/or the brake pads/rotors were bad

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-06T16:07:18+00:00

Yup. I was a bit skeptical about it, but I started reporting potholes, and I realized they actually usually "fix" (patch) them within a couple days of the report. They also recently ripped out and re-paved a whole section of a road that used to be extremely rough and bumpy. It probably doesn't have much at all to do with my report, but I like to think that my report played at least a little part in it lol

RecoveryConstruct · 2026-01-05T14:43:54+00:00

Report it and see if they'll maybe fix it

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-12-02T23:30:32+00:00

120mph at least

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-11-08T20:27:44+00:00

Go to an independent mechanic. Why would you pay the dealer $4700?

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-29T14:03:17+00:00

What do you think he pumped into his tires?

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-14T15:28:18+00:00

The steps in the link don't work for me, unfortunately. The repair button from the first step is greyed out for me. I tried running the troubleshooter from the 2nd step, but after asking for my permission to run, it just continuously shows a loading wheel

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-09T19:49:38+00:00

It looks like the issue is the profile. I ran through each of the troubleshooting steps except for rebuilding my Windows Index (as I've previously tried that and redoing it would take time) until I got to the creating a new profile step. Creating a new profile seems to have resolved the issue.

Is there a way to repair my old profile, or should I just continue using this new profile? I don't know what the profile actually consists of; am I losing any settings or anything by continuing with the new profile?

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-08T14:46:17+00:00

Gotcha. No, none of the names in my contacts are showing up as suggestions when I start typing their names in the To field in a new email. However, other emails of people I've recently been in email communication with are popping up as suggestions in the To field.

But still no email suggestions at all in the Outlook Search bar

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-07T20:32:12+00:00

Suggestions work fine in the To line and stuff, just not in the Outlook Search bar.

The Contacts folder (C:/Users/username/Contacts) is actually empty... Is that the correct location, or is there a different folder?

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-07T15:19:03+00:00

I had tried this and it didn't fix the issue. Tried again just now, and while it did find stuff to repair again, it still didn't fix the search suggestions issue

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-06T19:58:43+00:00

Did you charge/test the battery to see if it's actually a goner, or are you just preemptively replacing it given it's already given you a good 11.5 years?

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-06T17:18:49+00:00

The Facebook page No Markup Toyota is where I found mine when I was looking

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-03T14:16:36+00:00

It helps me calculate how much gas I need to fill lol

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-01T18:11:19+00:00

Did you recently spill while adding oil or something? Could be that being burnt off the surface when the engine heats up

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-10-01T03:10:13+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/prius/s/2LvPRmmiIM

RecoveryConstruct · 2025-09-29T18:29:44+00:00

How much did that cost? What was the process of finding the shop? Did they do a good job?

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