2006 - No horn - spiral assembly advice.

It's not a difficult repair. The part lists for $318 from Toyota and you should be able to find online dealers willing to sell it around $230 or so.

Any reasonably competent shop should be able to change it for you in less than an hour.

 

Wow I must have gone crazy I thought I just saw the clock springs it's called for I don't know man like $60 and it looked pretty good but whoa was me I don't know. I took the one out of my '05 put it in my '09 and even went ahead and took the two-speed rear wiper part so I use the whole combination switch essentially and it wasn't a difficult repair at all. Needed a 19 mm socket the torx bit that done does the side wings to get them pad and airbag off the steering wheel and I was able to clean up and rearrange some of the wiring for the button switches and I use the button switches out of the '05 also as they were in way nicer shade took about 45 minutes one of the easier repairs I would say you'll get to do on this model better revel in it.

 

Kind of why do it myself because I know I can do it in about 45 minutes That's a fact most anybody can that can wield a screwdriver and hold the gun to undo the 19 under the airbag pad but then you'll start fooling around cleaning things and it'll take an hour and 10 minutes No problem there The car doesn't have to be picked up and you're not paying for it and like I said I thought I recently saw the part from amiyama or whoever for like $66 it's actually a pretty simple part and I think a few manufacturers make it it's a very common part on every vehicle

 

The $66 part is a POS made in China duplicate. There are a handful of threads on the forum of people who have used them, mostly with short term success. I'm sure some have longer success, you just rarely hear about it because they're not pissed off. I grab these OEMs sometimes from salvage yards if I see a Prius and have extra time. I have 3 or 4 clock springs, control switches and even steering wheels on the shelf. I've been able to help a couple locals, but Boston is a bit of a drive for me, lol.

 

Yes I grab a lot of them from the salvage yard too and generally I don't buy the $66 one I get to 88 or the $94 one and whatever they usually seem to fare a little better than I don't know the $66 when I guess but I'm certainly not keen on paying 200 I guess if I was absolutely forced to but that would never happen LKQ was too close