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Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by Has Raf, Oct 31, 2024.

  1. Has Raf

    Has Raf Junior Member

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    Hi all. Just wondering what this is, what it should look like, and what its purpose is. It looks like there’s a wire missing. The wire on the right is attached to the clip.

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    I don't know what it is but it's correct and there's nothing wrong there's a few of these on quite a few Toyota models I don't know if there's some kind of a ground business or if that little square thing that is plugged into is I don't know what electrically Don't really care but I know you don't want to go cutting and hacking and messing with that stuff
     
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    that's a noise filter and it's a 1 wire plug. If you look closely there's 1 wire connected.
     
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    As long as it looks normal, and not broken. That’s fine. What’s it’s purpose?
     
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    If it's a noise filter like high mileage garage says then it just cleans up signal noisy dirty signal electrically some kind of a filter I know there's quite a few of them throughout the car and I just leave them alone I don't think they're things that will really go bad and create serious issues they're like noise filter canister
     
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    it suppresses electrical noise caused by the ignition coils. If this fails you could hear a background noise in your AM radio that varies with RPM.
     
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    Thanks everyone.