Hey all, The front of my prius c has a weird square piece to the right of my front license plate. It recently came off. Has this happened to anybody else and if so, how much to fix it? Also, occasionally when I brake, the car kind of locks up and the icon with the car skidding appears on the dash. What does this mean? I've had my scheduled maintenance inspections and they haven't told me anything is wrong with my brakes so I guess it's ok.
Also, does that happen when you're braking on flat ground free of debris, or when there are cracks/potholes/bumps/rocks/gravel? If I break hard enough when going over a bump/crack, traction control will become unhappy, and that's normal. As for the square cover, I'd think it should just pop back on, assuming you have it.
I get the traction control trigger all the time on the shoddy bumps that are an everyday feature of our roads where they've just messily sealed a crack with a mountain of tar or they've redone a section of road and left it at a totally different height from the old section. I also get it at home where there's a drain grate at the bottom of the ramp in from the street I and I need to brake in such a way that triggers it half the time. Amusingly when I was driving on rough unsealed roads down the coast on Monday - never triggered. Doesn't really bother me, its got a job to do and it's doing it.
If the anti-lock system works too readily, your tyres are either poor gripping or your tyre pressures are excessive
