2009 Intermittent Heat shield issue

You're stressing yourself out Don't do that It's not good for your heart that sort of thing It's just a heat shield maybe have the person working on your car reach up there and rip it off and throw it in the proverbial Rubbermaid trash bin It's not going to make any difference to your car nor to the sheet metal of your car nothing's going to get a whole lot hotter burn up burn a hole through your foot nothing very boring The heat shields are the first things to go on all of my New England Toyotas since 1974 they last about three or four months and then they start rattling then in those days the 10 mm bolts would be taken a loose and the outer portion of the shield would be thrown away immediately and then as soon as the inner portion of the shield started rattling I'd remove the exhaust manifold back it up with a pry bar and pull the inner heat shield off but the gas get back on the exhaust manifold never to see the heat shield inner or outer pieces ever again I don't know anybody that would order these new and have them reinstalled on their dime never heard of such a thing but it sounds good I just don't know anybody who would partake in that activity and then to worry about it moving forward You're getting a new Prius because of heat shields that's a great story that's pretty good I can't even imagine changing my 2008 or 9 Prius for say a 2023 that's great fun I guess you plan to be out of these cars at 130 140,000. I can't even imagine that I don't even think about exiting a Toyota from my stable until at least 500,000 generally speaking or it's been in a collision where somebody's been near killed but I am glad that you people are buying the new Prius We need you to definitely do that.

 

Usually a heat shield or a rattling piece of metal is going to be the last thing in the world that stops your vehicle from taking you somewhere It's usually your mind that will make you put a stop to the vehicle taking you somewhere not the heat shield I wish all my problems could be heat shield related and I would have no problems because I can easily put that heat shield problem out of my mind because I know it's just going to be pulled off with a pair of pliers and be extracted to the trash bin end of discussion I don't generally look for cars until I think I need to be myself similar same I just buy cars that I know can go another 15 years with me no matter what the previous people did and these generation twos can easily do that the next model forward not so much.