What is this tool for?

Pic?

Otherwise the guessing game isn’t much fun.

 

It does look like a handle for closing the hatch.

Was the previous owner short?

But it looks like that’s the intended purpose .

 

It should hold the jack down in the plastic carrier on top of the spare tire.

 

Welcome to PriusChat! …a picture of the thing you're inquiring about might be useful? (…just a suggestion)

 

…hey! I resemble that remark! (…you should see this short-arsed Brit fitting the rear-shield into the rear hatch of my Gen II!)

 

Maybe we don’t want to watch.

We might get a show out of the deal.

Maybe more than we both bargain for.

 

Well, if I were Goldie Hawn (clad in a mini-skirt), that might in fact be true, and you might as they say, "…be able to see what I had for breakfast"¹

¹ © Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (from about 1970 (UK))

 

Here is the same thing on my Gen3, inside the added red circle. The whole plastic carrier assembly goes atop the spare tire:

(oops, I should have snapped the jack handle properly into its recess before taking the picture.)

 

Who’s Goldie Hawn .

 

Who is John Galt?

 

Me thinks Kurt Russell knows about Goldie quite well

 

Okay
Is this a accessory, modification, or lost tool thread