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Originally Posted by underscore
The only things that should have been damaged are the circuits involved. Assuming the engine was off that should be the battery, the ground wire for the battery, the cable between the positive terminal and where the socket was, and whatever the socket grounded to. There's no reason for anything else to have been affected.
Did the dealer replace the battery? If not, did they at least try a new battery pretty much right away? If they didn't they're just screwing you over (there's no way this should take 4.5hrs), and before you waste any more time with them go buy a battery and plop it in.
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Thanks your reply.
The battery read 12.27 immediately prior to the first tow to the dealer, so I assumed it was still fine. I guess it's possible that it died in the last ~48 hours of sitting there.
Yes, the truck was off when this occurred. A good chunk of the ~4.5hrs was removing and reinstalling the PDC (main fuse/relay box). Toyota, in their infinite wisdom, made it so that the "serious" fuses (such as the 140a and 120a one I mentioned earlier) are bolted in from the bottom, and cannot be removed without lifting the entire PDC box. That's a well known pain in the ass (tons of info about it online).
Everything you've listed off is accurate. The battery is the only thing that comes to mind as a potential culprit. Fingers crossed it's that simple.
Another small caveat is that Toyota doesn't sell that ground wire separately, but rather only as part of the entire negative-terminal harness, running in at a cool $398+tax. And there's no inventory anywhere in North America, so it could be months before it comes in. I can easily find a wire of same guage and crimp it into the original location, but the dealers won't do this (probably for liability reasons). Honestly, I'd pay the ridiculous harness fee just in the off chance that someone else on it may be damaged (such as another thin ground) and would not show its ugly face until the most inconvenient moment. I have two big road trips coming up next year (1 month and another for 2 months) and would hate to run into electrical gremlins in the middle of nowhere. This harness has changed from the earlier years, so finding a used one is impossible.