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Due to my inability to find a shop I can trust to perform the charger replacement, I've decided to take it on myself. To that end, I plan to perform as many steps in the process as I can in each session. If I'm unable to proceed on a particular aspect, I have neighbors in better health and a Ford dealership mechanic down the street who might be able to work over the stumbles.
My current approach will be to purchase the US$90 Toyota TIS license for a month and download what I hope will be the obvious documents to start the project.
I will be doubling as an Uber driver to get my wife to work, which gives me the motivation to move just that little bit faster on each step.
Because my health isn't what it once was, including my mental health, I have to take things step by step and can't absorb (without losing) information that may be necessary in the future.
To that end, I intend to post to this topic my progress along with each succeeding step as referenced in the TIS documentation.
I recall (barely) that one of the early steps is to put the vehicle on ramps and remove the splash panels. I have done exactly that when my wife pointed out the noise that a hanging panel makes while reversing! I'm hopeful I can find the bag of panel push pins I purchased when that happened.
If anyone has advisories along the way, please post them. I'm sure they will be helpful to me as well as to others, but please also aim to post them in the appropriate timeline, that is, a helpful hint regarding putting something back in place is best left to a couple steps in advance of that posting of my progress.
At the moment, I'm holding off on subscribing to the month of TIS, as I'm hoping someone can throw a hint to me regarding which documents I should be collecting. Additionally, the question arises: is the TIS a subscription which allows direct downloads to my computer, or is it a live-use only service?
I'm hoping to get this wrapped up by Thanksgiving, but I suspect that might be optimistic.
My current approach will be to purchase the US$90 Toyota TIS license for a month and download what I hope will be the obvious documents to start the project.
I will be doubling as an Uber driver to get my wife to work, which gives me the motivation to move just that little bit faster on each step.
Because my health isn't what it once was, including my mental health, I have to take things step by step and can't absorb (without losing) information that may be necessary in the future.
To that end, I intend to post to this topic my progress along with each succeeding step as referenced in the TIS documentation.
I recall (barely) that one of the early steps is to put the vehicle on ramps and remove the splash panels. I have done exactly that when my wife pointed out the noise that a hanging panel makes while reversing! I'm hopeful I can find the bag of panel push pins I purchased when that happened.
If anyone has advisories along the way, please post them. I'm sure they will be helpful to me as well as to others, but please also aim to post them in the appropriate timeline, that is, a helpful hint regarding putting something back in place is best left to a couple steps in advance of that posting of my progress.
At the moment, I'm holding off on subscribing to the month of TIS, as I'm hoping someone can throw a hint to me regarding which documents I should be collecting. Additionally, the question arises: is the TIS a subscription which allows direct downloads to my computer, or is it a live-use only service?
I'm hoping to get this wrapped up by Thanksgiving, but I suspect that might be optimistic.
We found a few shortcuts, such as leaving the cables from the charger to the DC/DC converter attached to the charger. Not earthshaking, but one less thing to deal with. We also discovered (or remembered from other posts) that the charger can be "slid" to the right an inch or so to give easier access to the junction box on the left side (looking into the engine compartment). 
