What did you do to ur Gen III Prius today????

Yes I believe I did use the stock bracket. I installed it about 5 years ago so Im too sure.

 

Yeah, I plan to mitigate that issue by installing one of those Filter wraps things that supposedly reject a lot of water and dirt.

 

Here's more pics without the interior lights.


EDIT: I noticed I should've had the AC unit on too... my bad!

 

Daily wash

 

Beast!

 

Black isn't a color, it's a hobby.

Having said that, there's is nothing sexier than black when it's clean and shiny. Nice @Johnsk93!

 

I wish we had someone here in northern Cali who can help out with these kind of mods. Unless there is one that I don't know about hmmm


iPhone ?

 

Time to plan a road trip down here

 

Hell, I'm thinking about planning a mod party road trip myself.

 

We should reserve a full weekend to put on a mod party extravaganza for all the long distance modders.

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Just make sure to eat!

 

Update on this: I wasn't too happy with the 3D prints I made myself. After getting the sizing correct, I had trouble trying to make the tabs on the backside that line up with the mounting holes. I also got discouraged because you could see a lot of banding in the plastic and could still see it after being painted.

I found a vendor that has machined aluminum "TEQ" badges for trucks. I ordered some samples and found ones that closely fit our sizes. These have 3M automotive tape on the backsides, but no tabs or mounting holes for screws. There's also a lip along the edge on the back that's about the same height as the tape, so you'll need to grind the lip down a bit for the tape to make contact with the car.

Also, the color of the black and aluminum didn't really match the gloss black and chrome tones already on the Prius. Without putting in the work to mod the color of the emblems and a way to securely mount them, I've lost interest in trying to finish this. I also think on my car, it'll make it look even busier between the emblem, license plate, and priuschat sticker, so I'm gonna stick with the Toyota sombrero.

If someone else is interested in this, you can buy the emblems at Aluminum 80/100 series TEQ grill badge | BH3D Printing. You'll need both 03-05 and 06-07 versions for the 2 different Toyota emblem sizes on the Prius.

 

Dylan, you might be on to something..............................

 

@Dylan, any plans for an oversea mod party? Looking forward to see you do your magic in Europe

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If you want one that looks closer to the one I have, it's a little bit pricey. I can have one made for you. It mounts with 3m tape. I only put it on during shows because it seems people are very interested. As if it needs to be guarded. lol


There's also a guy on IG named pete39sp who make badges, and he has the Toyota katakana for Scion FRS's. Not as nice as the Japan one, but similar. Maybe he can make you a custom one.

 

Yours look great with that chrome tone. But yeah, my fear is that someone is just gonna pull it off the car so I'd rather not spend too much on it since I'll be leaving it on daily. That pete39sp guy has some awesome stuff tho...

 

I do not know. Might be worth contacting the guy. At least ask the dimensions.

 

I'm in NorCal.. I'll let you know how mine goes this weekend, if it goes well I'll give ya a hand...

 

Any norcal guys want to check out the Fatlace Saturday morning coffee meetup tomorrow? 8am-11am in San Mateo at their paddock