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toyota avensis manual 1.6d 2018, the auto brake failed to disengage my dash lit up with 4 yellow warnings including the engine management symbol.

it also has check parking brake displayed. Which I can’t get rid of for more than 20seconds. 

Is there a way to try and reset the system or is this a Toyota dealer ship only?

im praying this isn’t an ECU issue as can’t afford to replace. 

Any ideas?

 


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Just incase anyone else has this problem. After a visit to the dealer ship which all I got was a mechanic scratching his head saying I’ve no idea and a £120 bill.

searched the internet and the problem can come from the fuel cap leaking.

Very sceptical I wound plumbers tape around fuel cap. Started the car out went the warning lights and the electric brakes worked.

bought a new fuel cap not a problem since

 


This post was modified 3 years ago 2 times by Gmarair

Thanks for reporting back. Much appreciated.
It's so bizarre that your brakes were affected.


Thanks for the feedback, indeed. So, "leaky gas cap kills electric parking brakes", that's a new one . lol


That is truly bizarre. It's proof of what Scotty has said many times, that everything in modern cars is connected and all those systems affect each other.


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There's not a lot of love for electric parking brakes here. You could try to do a scan for codes but it's probably going to take a bidirectional dealer-level scan tool to sort that out.


Yeah I can’t stand the electric brake system, I figured was going to be a dealer. Toyota just went down on my reliability scale.


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