How about a contest. No prizes, just general admiration for whoever can come up with the most creative, most satisfying idea for what to do with these grey plugs that live where well-meaning industrial designers intended foglamps. Decorate, disguise, repurpose, whatever. Go at it. Tim
Gun ports for retractable, fully automatic, 500 round paintball guns with trigger on the steering wheel. High pressure air tank mounted in the volume formerly occupied by the coolant holding tank. Typical use would be to obscure the license plates of numb-nuts drivers who cut you off. ***** Let them explain it to the cops why they're running illegally. Secondary use would be to put some snap in the step of the clowns who cross the street in front of you at a glacial pace because bovine obstruction the extent of their ability to interact with the real world. Use of limo tint and this license plate blocker optional, but highly recommended: TricPlate.com
How bout a video camera to capture the incriminating evidence instead? Or, for those who are less scrupulous, fricken laser beams shouldn't be so hard.
I have a good one!! how about some RECT-13LS LED warning lights like the cop mororcycles have but in amber or white to get those pesky trucks out of the way on the highway!! tomar makes them
Remove the grey plastic plugs and install ducting to route cold air to the front disc brakes... Or, have the ducting feed the engine air intake, yielding a Ram-Air Prius!
I fear many of these additions would spoil that .25 CD ;-) Then again, so would opening the moon roof.
Remove the plug and insert a realistic toy cat half way into the hole head first. Install LED DRLs. Stick on white reflectors. They might look a little like fog lights and would be as effective at lighting the road as the fog lights Toyota fit to the 2004 - 2009 Prius.
Sad but true. I don't understand why some posters like fog lights, the 2G ones add zero value from my perspective. Maybe they help other drivers to see you, but if an oncoming driver can't see the HID headlights s/he must be blind.
I found with my last car (2001 Ford Focus) that in real fog, the high beam headlamps simply reflect off the fog and make visibility worse, while the combination of low beam headlamp and fog lamp improves visibility close to the car. The step up from my T3 to the T4 grade adds fog lamps and the 6-CD nine-speaker JBL audio, for an extra £785 (4.3%). I decided I didn't need them. Having said that, Toyota GB's website says 'Front fog lamps enhance the aerodynamic good looks...' - clearly, not fitted for actually improving the visibility! See also What Are Fog Lamps Really For?
It's still a requirement. It's part of the main rear light cluster, I must confess I don't know exactly where as I haven't checked that it actually works! There isn't an extra low-level rear fog light on it. I'll take a look later.