Radiator guard

It's a piece of plastic trim right pull the little tabs out save them if they're good and throw the thing out Yes you can buy it if you want to All of those pieces of plastic under a Prius All of them help to lower the drag coefficient of air flowing through around and under the car The Prius and it's original design when it was first made talking about I think the generation 2 not the little coop was one of the lowest drag coefficient of any production car on the planet at the time I'm not sure if that's the same for the generation 3 and further generations but the two I believe that was the case at the time. So as you remove some of those plastic underpinnings trays under the floorboards etc you regain some of the drag that was mitigated by those plastic panels how much I don't know it would cost thousands of dollars in research to find that out probably wouldn't be worth one's time to be honest. The trays that went under the floorboards in the front on some of these cars will collect with rocks over the years in my generation 3 that had these trays I had 40 lb of rocks in the two trays That's 40 lb of extra weight I'm carrying around all the time I'm sure that mitigated any aerodynamic drag that was coming along on the car. Once the car gets dirty the drag coefficient goes down because of the dirt on the car seriously they make waxes just for this for the aircraft industry slipstream is a big name or was then it had to be done fairly regularly and it was noticeable I guess to aviation people etc.

 

You will need it. That plastic does help air flow to the engine compartment.

 

Yes all the plastics together were made to do all of these things as they start getting removed fender liners little pieces of plastic here and there then a lot of these points about air flow direction and aerodynamics become pretty moot If you don't keep the car shiny and waxed and all that a lot of this drag coefficient is very moot That's why they wax planes to keep them in the slipstream the name of the wax also etc etc but yeah it should if everything else is pretty equal but usually on the roads that's generally not the case I don't think any of our four have any of this pieces are missing etc etc It is not worth spending the money to replace them The gas mileage will see no difference more or less I would be surprised if a 10th of a mile per gallon showed up

 

It's a piece of trim You can lose it. When the generation 2 Prius was made It had one of the lowest drag coefficient of any production car on the planet and the way they got those low drag numbers was by all this plastic that's fitted under and around the car to smooth out that air flow simple as time goes on these pieces get bashed into parking curbs etc etc they get the hanging down flapping in the breeze making farting noises like bicycle cards clothes pinned in your spokes as a child folks get tired of hearing that nonsense next thing comes to scissors and you start trimming plastic to get the hanging down pieces etc etc More of it breaks and falls apart and the same ensues until it's all gone and in the trash or in your driveway wherever. During this time how much gas mileage have you noticed that you've lost by all the tank gallon counting and math and looking at the display and whatever at the end of the day what have you lost? And my 09 Prius which came from the factory rated to get 47.1 miles to the gallon all the time or you know whatever I used to get that 47.1 up to 8 months ago. The plastics had been missing off the car for many years I was still getting the same rated gas mileage about 9 months ago I don't know what changed all of a sudden everything dropped to 42 to 44 generally speaking this is what I see on the display blah blah blah. Nothing has changed on the car everything looks normal in TIS . Plugs and everything that runs the car are very new or newer say less than 20,000 mi on all that stuff filters everything The car's been kept up by reasonable people all its life It's just old I'm right at 400k getting 42 to 44 miles to the gallon driving approximately a hundred miles a day sometimes a little more sometimes a tad less I can't complain 10,000 mi oil changes do whatever we want with the car whenever we want No problem.

 

Its called a Radiator Support Splash Shield

And it definitely protects the front of the condenser from road debris damage. Which you will incur alot of if its missing because the front end of the G2 is very low it will pick up everything especially rain and snow without that guard and beat up your new condenser pretty good.

Buy a new one. Mine was looking ratty I bought an after market off ebay what a piece of useless paper thin junk
don't waste your time. I bought a new one.

Here you go:

https://parts.olathetoyota.com/oem-parts/toyota-radiator-support-splash-shield-5144747010?c=Zz1ib2R5JnM9YnVtcGVyLWFuZC1jb21wb25lbnRzLWZyb250Jmw9MSZuPUFzc2VtYmxpZXMgUGFnZSZhPXRveW90YSZvPXByaXVzJnk9MjAwNyZ0PWJhc2UmZT0xLTVsLWw0LWVsZWN0cmljLWdhcw%3D%3D

If the online site asks for your vin make sure you include it and it will then fit perfectly.

 

he should be retrieving the codes, not removing them

 

Nope...the class action suit your referencing has nothing to do with your year car.

Google is your friend. here:

https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2022/toyota-prius-inverter-failure-lawsuit-settlement-reached.shtml