Weird electrical fault

[Deano59]

Hello everyone, this is my first post.

my daughter pranged her 2005 Yaris 3  door 1.0 litre a few months ago. It is only light cosmetic damage. I have started to repair it, and the first thing was to charge the Battery. Everything was working fine when she drove it home after the incident, but now the led instrument panel lights up and then stays on all the time along with the charge and oil lights, even when you take the key out. Nothing else electrical works.

i connected a code reader to the OBDII socket and instantly all the electrics came to life. Pull out the code reader and everything goes dead apart from the instrument panel.
Have any of you ever experienced anything similar or have any idea what the problem may be?

Thank you.

[dynamite40]

Where was the damage look for any earth connections that may have been damaged

If you took the Battery off to charge it recheck all the connections

if not disconnect the Battery for 5 minutes to let everything reset

Take the earth off first and reconnect it last

hope this helps

[flash22]

airbags deployed ?? seatbelt pre-tensioners?

[Deano59]

Thank you both for your advice. I found the problem, it was indeed a bad earth connection behind the upper half of the dashboard/ instrument panel.