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Originally Posted by lakedude
It sounds to me like the Prius goes into autostop when in neutral, is that correct? The only way I can get the ICE off in my HCH is to turn the key off to do a "manual autostop" or "reboot". It would be nice to mod it with a forced autostop button so a full reboot is not required. With a true autostop the car has PS the entire time and the gauges function all the time as does the radio. With a manual reboot you lose power steering for a few seconds, the dash resets (the car may not be keeping track of the miles drivin for a few seconds), and the radio cuts out on restart.
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The Prius ICE shuts off whenever it possibly can, so when you take your foot off the accelerator, neutral, park, reverse all usually make the ICE shut off. It has certain warmup sequences that will keep the engine running in order to reach a certain temperature in the catalytic converters, but turning the car off and on will not avoid these so in general there's no need to reboot a Prius.
Sounds like the HCH really could use that mod, especially in Canada because of the daytime running lights, a reboot would cause them to turn off and on.
It shouldn't be that hard to do, all you need to find is a wire that stalls the motor when unplugged, then simply attach a normally closed pushbutton switch to that wire so that pushing the switch disconnects the wire temporarily.