Gen III Skid Plate interest????

As long as its lightweight I'm for it.

 

The Ideal would be a Kevlar skid plate I'd pay $400 for it.
Metal $190.
A coyote dashed in front of my car when I surprised him at a trash can, Bent my A/C tubing, tore up plastic underside of car, not to mention the poor animal, It made me sick but to dodge him I would have had do an endo off the mountain.

Also with poor national economy we r finding more and more rubber on the road with folks deferring maintenance.
Go For It!
PM (private msg) me if you wish.

 

I have less than 30k miles on my 2010, and the front under-cover is a scraped up mess.
Let me know if a metal plate becomes available.

 

I'd be interested in an aluminum/titanium plate.

 

I say yes with abundant use of Titanium at all of the low points that make contact with the road!!

a la Nigel:

 

Yep. Rebusted the plate I repaired about a month ago. Time to get out the cable ties again.

 

BUMP... Yes, anyone know if a skid plate/stiffener has been made for the v ? I have a 2014 Prius v5.

 

Did anything ever come of this? Looks like there was some significant interest. I would definitely be interested if a product was ever released and if not might be something I could move forward with producing.

 

Vehicle with barely 4" ground clearance and street suspension, I doubt it.

I come to a dead-crawl over speed bumps, lol.

 

I'm trying to change that.

 

Definitely would pay a good princely sum for a well thought out a solution, have considered trying to build one myself

 

This is an old thread, but Prius Off Road just started selling skid plates for Gen 3

GEN 3 SKID PLATE

 

Looks interesting, but must be completely removed for oil changes (they say that takes 5 minutes).

I wonder if you would still need a catalytic converter shield. If it goes that far back and you were going to install one anyway, then might as well install the skid plate.

 

It’s attached with 4 large factory bolts in the frame, and 4 factory screws into the bumper. So with an impact driver it takes me less than a minute to remove, and a few minutes to reinstall. For me it’s well worth the added peace of mind having the protection. It goes between the front bumper and main crossmember behind the engine, so you will have to get a separate cat guard. If it covered the cat too, I think it would become so big it would be unwieldy for routine maintenance. I got a MillerCat shield for mine.

 

It might be scraping those concrete wheel stops, like the stock plastic piece? And what's scraping might be the protruding bolt heads. See it does allow you to access front/center jacking point. I'll pass.