Installing aftermarket accessories on LE/SE

Curious about the trunk too, or 3rd party. Even just to get it to open with the fob and not be electrical. If anyone achieves this or is super confident in a solution?

 

Once autoparts.toyota.com is fully populated with the parts for the 23 Prius and Prime, I'll try to find an answer, but my experience in looking into upgrades for my older base-trim Prius suggests any upgrades like those will be massively cost prohibitive.

You might be able to do a non-OEM version of the digital mirror using OEM-quality parts for about $1000-$1500 USD. Toyota buys the mirror from a company named Gentex. You can buy almost the exact same mirror from them(or a retailer) for about $1000. The kit comes with a camera you glue to the inside of the back window. You could also try buying the OEM camera and mounting bezel and making your own OEM install. I'm guessing $500+ for those parts on top of the $1k for the mirror. You will almost certainly have to add wiring since I am extremely doubtful the SE has the same rear and roof wiring harnesses as the XSE/XSE+.

The powered lift gate and/or keyless back entry is going to be a non-starter. I'm going to spitball a bare minimum of $5000 USD worth of parts. I want to say the powered arms are $400 each just by themselves. The new wiring harness will be a thousand or two. I'm betting at least one ECU will have to be replaced. The keyless entry will cost at least $500 in parts just at the lock. And then there will be hundreds of dollars worth of little differences; brackets, fasteners, covers and bezels. Anything is doable if you're willing to spend enough, but I doubt you'll think it's worth whatever the total cost is. And none of that covered labor. If you're not doing it yourself, add another thousand or two as most of the interior would have to be pulled out(except probably the front seats).

 

How about just a button on the inside of the car to open trunk?

 

Maybe. You could probably rig something up. You'd have to run some wiring from the button to the latch since there wouldn't be anything existing in the front of the car to tap into. What you'd need to do is tap into the wires running from the door switch in the hatch to the door lock actuator. Then run that tap forward to the dash.

This gets into the realm of jury-rigging, and I try to go exclusively OEM with my mods. So this isn't an area I'm all that knowledgeable about. But I think I can get access to the wiring diagram if anyone wants to try to figure it out.

 

For a power lift gate, Autoease should have one for the Gen5 Prius' in the near future.

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https://www.autoease.com/product/liftgate/

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https://www.autoease.com/product/liftgate/

Power Liftgate Retrofit
$699.00
This retrofit power tailgate lift assisting system opens and closes your rear door by simply pressing a button. It provides additional security and value to your vehicle. Installation is designed for the do-it-yourself and comes with various brackets depending on your car.

Category: Power Liftgate
Tags: aftermarket, autoease, boot, electric, hatchdoor, liftgate, online, opener, power, shop, tailgate, tl105

What's included
Description
The New Generation power lift gate opener which has more features.
Support original remote to open/close gate.
Support front/rear button to open/close gate.
Support foot(boot) kick sensor addon.
Still support manually open/close the gate.
Customizable gate height, suits to everyone.
Gate will bounce back automatically once it senses obstacles while closing.
Sound alarm when tailgate is closing or opening.
Quiet motor, noise less than 50dB in 30cm distance.
Work in all weather conditions, operation temperature -30 ℃～65℃.
Picture for reference only, products vary per different cars.


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I have their kit for my Gen4 Prime. I haven't had the time to install it yet.

Good Luck!

 

I really appreciate your responses. Keeping it OEM definitely sounds like a good idea. I wouldn't be able to understand or utilize the diagram myself. Also would be more comfortable to consider if/when someone else dives in with success. Really enjoying the car.

 

This definitely looks interesting. Curious how it works out when you do end up installing it!

 

I want one!

 

Please send help, LE trunks would like to open with a button in the cabin.

 

Didn't someone post the Autoease link for the power liftgate retrofit? I see it available for the Gen 5 on their website. Get one and tell us how it is!

 

Nice!

I'm looking for non powered lift and more so touch a button inside the cabin and the trunk pops open, doesn't have to open entirely.

 

You could probably tap into the switch in the trunk and run a wire to the front but I don't see what you'd achieve at all. If you just press the switch on the trunk, it unlocks the bottom lock but it won't move at all. There's no springs that will pop it slightly.

 

Definitely going to look into this, thanks! The goal would be so that a person doesn't have to be at the back and press a release or button for the trunk to be opened.

Maybe the solution you mentioned plus a spring addition of some sort would pop it open more significantly. Hmm

Has anyone tried that on this generation?

 

Spring solution works on a sedan like a Camry. You press on a switch, it releases the lock and the spring pull the trunk open and the height it goes kind of depends on the springs. I don't think you can achieve that on a hachback without a power liftgate. It's a very different trunk system. The kit comes with a foot/kick motion sensor which sounds like what you want; opening the trunk without actually physically touching it.