More about that stupid UFO speaker

So yea, my mechanic friend dug straight to it, and had it out in less than 10 minutes. We put a piece of foam over the front and shoved some under that little bracket piece on the back, then gorilla taped it, and threw it back in....
I was very confident that it was going to quiet it way down, but to my disappointment, it hardly did anything ☹️
Here soon I'll be taking the car in for it's 5000 mile service. And I'll see if I can get them to dial it back. Someone here said it has a 1, 2, or 3 loudness settings, and they usually come set to 3 from the factory.
If they either won't drop it down to the lowest setting, OR they do and it's still to loud, I'm going to remove that stupid thing and put in a 3 ohm resistor to stop the pop up message from bugging me.
Not trying to make it dead silent, but that ugly mechanical scraping sound is just hideous.

 

Well, I could hear it in my 2019, but it's much louder in my 22 ☹️ And it's a really awful sound too. It sounds like some kind of metal part scraping or grinding. Kind of embarrassing really. I'm sure people think .. "Look at that brand new Prius already malfunctioning...."
Well no. But it sure sounds like it.
Oh, what do you have to do to trigger it ? Put it in reverse... Or drive, up to 15mph, as long as the gas motor isn't running.
I think reverse is the loudest though...

 

And that's what concerns me. I'm hoping I can get Toyota to dial it back a little, but I can see them giving me some crap about liability... Yada, yada..
At which I'll just have to take matters in my own hands.
But I really don't want to completely remove it..
Only to quiet it down by about 80%....

 

I wish I had had some extra sound deadener. We just used closed cell foam and tightly wrapped it with Gorilla tape. I really expected it to make a bigger difference
Oh yeah, and sound deadener already has super sticky adhesive, so no tape required....
might bring a sheet of it next time I go to see my mechanic.