Is there an interest in this idea? If so, what would you be willing to pay for one? I know of a metal fabrication shop that can do the work. The hard part would be designing the part for ease of install and functionality. I would like it to be a single piece and unlike the BT skid plate. I'm new to the Prius world but am very familiar with the Toyota 4x4 community. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. I'm serious about trying to do this. Thanks in advance for any ideas or comments.
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 say yes with abundant use of Titanium at all of the low points that make contact with the road!! a la Nigel:
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.
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.
