My 2016 Prius' front bumper emblem broke&fell out. How much it cost to get another 1 and where at?

As Tideland said, if you have radar (like DRCC), the radar is mounted behind that emblem. This is very different than the standard metal emblem. You pay $450 for the privilege of having permeable plastic. Otherwise none of your radar functions will work properly and alarms will randomly go off all the time as the radar gets reflected back erroneously. Think driving down the road no issue, suddenly emergency braking because the car detected a collision infront of you because of improperly reflected waves.

 

Yes I know 100%.

If you have radar, you need the expensive one. If you don't have radar, you can use either of them.

 

Don't assume that.

The 2016 spec sheet is attached.

<EDIT>All but the Prius 2 and Prius 2 ECO have radar</EDIT>

I just saw your img links (don't use links, hotlink them with the img tag here so people can see them without clicking a URL...) and if that is your emblem, then you don't have the AT package. The AT package emblem is plastic and smooth.

 

The logo in the picture though looks like the more 3D one. Did that change from the flat plasticky looking one for the radar emblem?

 

<sigh>

Ok... Does your emblem ACTUALLY look like that? Or is it like a flat piece of plastic with the Toyota emblem "painted" on it.

 

Maybe Toyota could have just installed a pressure sensor on the front center on the bumper, that way whenever you tap something in front of you at 1 mph or more it will automatically debit your bank account $480. That way Toyota still gets their money but you don't have the hassle of taking your car in for a replacement emblem.

But seriously, I remember the first time someone reported this we suspected that the dealer was mistakenly trying to replace the entire sensor not just the emblem. Now we know that the emblem in front of the radar actually costs that much. Wasn't there some other place they could put it? Behind an opening in the grill, or at least off to the side a little if it could still be effective, instead of being located at the point of the spear like it currently is.

 

The emblem on the front of a Prius with Toyota Safety Sense-P traces its lineage as much to the radome on the nose of an airplane as it does to the Spirit of Ecstasy. As others have explained, the emblem must not attenuate too much RF energy in the 76–77 GHz band used by the millimeter wave radar sensor assembly.

The U.S. list price may be $490.75, but there are Toyota dealers selling them online for $340 or so and eBay sellers asking even less. The same part (53141-47030) is also used on the RAV4 and on Prius cars sold in Japan, where the list price is ¥30,000; as I’ve previously discussed, for a small, lightweight part like this, buying from an exporter in Japan may be a good option, if you can wait a few days for delivery.

 

I feel much better now

 

Looking at a side view it looks like it might be an inch or two behind the very front of the car. A very low speed impact that might break the plastic Honda emblem would probably not damage the radar sensor, or at least it would have a better chance since it's not at the very tip.