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Had my steering dampener replaced today

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by pbwhat1, Jan 15, 2024.

  1. pbwhat1

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    I dealt with the rattle for the last 6 months and tried many fixes. It wasn't the intermediate joint or the splines.

    I bought a junkyard column and asked a mechanic to swap it out but he was kind enough to convince me to just swap the dampener.

    I never found a part # for the Gen3 so I figured it didn't have one. We opened my junkyard pull and lo and behold, it uses the same part as the gen4.

    Now I'm off to go return a steering column and hope I never deal with this again

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    Did you take detailed accurate pictures of that thing next to a tape measure That's something somebody could make on a 3D printer pretty easily probably out of the heavier material so then that part must come with the metal part that it's broken off into right? Or something along those lines It comes with the piece that it mounted into or the piece that it goes on to on the other side If it's not shown in the parts breakdown it's got to come on one of those two parts it just can't come out of thin air but like the poly mounts for my motorcycle turn signals that have been wildly modified and 3D printed throughout the internet and being sold on eBay Etsy and Pinterest I can buy a pair of those for 25 bucks and they're 10 times better than what I'll get from the bike manufacturer like in the next time they break the turn signal will break instead of this piece of plastic six one half a dozen.
     
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    And how many miles to destroy this thing your car doesn't look like but maybe $170,000 or something That's wild I have one with 335 on it was no traces of that kind of business everything in the steering and all that is rock solid still.
     
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    It gave out at 120,000. Seems to be a lottery game
     
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    I didn't get any pics. That's pretty cool how far 3d imaging has come though
     
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    Yeah so somebody would need to remove one of these in good shape and let a computer map it because it looks like you're not buying that part from Toyota so you have to buy some part of the assembly of the power steering or whatever that is you've got a part.
     
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    How much time does it take to do this repair?
     
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    Total time was close to 2 hrs by a professional technician.

    He would've been finished in 1.5hrs. He made really quick work of removing the dash and dropping the column.

    However I have a Prius V and the column had a really inaccesible 3rd bolt holding it in the rear. He struggled for like 30 minutes getting it to line up properly when he re-assembled everything.

    I felt justified paying somebody to fix it.
     
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