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

Shocked that you didn’t schedule your Prius to be repainted with the blizzard white pearl customer thingy without any charges

 

What do you mean? Was there a blizzard pearl recall on the Prius's too? I know the Sequoia and the Lexus suv's had some but I never had any paint problems other than the road cone splitting my bumper wide open. I should have taken a pic of it before, the fog light was knocked loose and the bumper was sticking out from the fender.

Edit - Did a google, found it. None of my paint ever peeled, though I do have a ton of tiny rock chips I've touch up painted to stop from spreading.

 

Gettin there

 

Is there a recall for the Blizzard Pearl paint? I couldn't find anything. But my clear coat is peeling in spots and the top of the car has a yellow hue to it.

 

Could you share what Amazon products you bought? I have a lot of spots I need to touch up. rust and other damage.

 

No recall but the bone white PPG paint is known to peel on Toyotas and Hyundai's. You have the pearl white so you'll have to do a little investigation

 

It looks good to me!

 

No need to use Amazon. I bought my kit directly from AutomotiveTouchup.

 

Re clear coated fender. Hopefully the paint matches with the car

 

Finally done painting

 

Looks like you nailed it!

 

Your Prius looks sick!!!
I hope to see it roaming around sometime... I do work in Poway from time to time.

 

The Gen III allows for so much custom modification, both inside and out.

 

I still have to finish blending and fixing some parts of the clear coat but i have to wait until the paint is cured

 

Thanks man! I used to live in poway buy walmart then moved up to vista. I drive a lot in 78 and 5 freeway now

 

Yup, very familiar with that area as well! I’m sure I’ll see you driving around one of these days!

 

Still a lot of work that needs to be done but finally on bags!

 

When you park your car, this makes it much harder for someone to steal your Cat. Plus, it just looks so cool!

 

The ONLY braces I trust are OEM and Tom's.
I trust that if Toyota adds these, they certainly do something.

It's been my experience in the past with my Hondas, that some of the Tanabe bars are tubular aluminum that can flex when pushed upon, even before installation. I can't comment on all of the Cusco bars. I do have one of their front upper strut bars on my CRX and that's a solid piece.

The G's rear brace noticeably tightened the rear end up a bit. Along with the TRD rear sway bar. The front strut bar did tighten things up, too. How much is debatable, but it was noticeable to me, especially in a 13 year old car. The front strut bar was the first one I did.

One brace alone may not make too noticeable of a difference, but coupled together they can.

I have not added the rest of the braces, yet.
The Tom's and G's rear brace are basically the same thing except Tom's is a single welded piece.
Tom's is discontinued.





You can do the Lexus / Scion front lower brace:




Front T-Brace



Front lower X-brace


The Tom's lower front brace is discontinued:


Side subframe reinforcement

 

@Priipriii That looks really nice! What head unit is that?