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

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Accessories and Modifications' started by sfv41901, Jul 23, 2012.

  1. burstaneurysm

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    Those LED conversion bulbs are certainly intriguing. I'd love to hear how they hold up over the next few months.
     
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    Blue interior led lights under the dash and seats, wired to fuse panel. Love the look.
     
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    +1 for keeping everyone updated.

    I'm running HIDs right now and it's about that time for me to pick up a replacement set (to keep in my car in case the original bulb(s) die while driving or away from my house). The LED certainly look interesting...possible HID replacement/?
     
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    Here's a thread at HIDPlanet discussing some LED headlight bulbs. There's some interesting links to other similar products as well.

    My number one concern with these products with high power LEDs is heat and what measures to remove the heat are utilized (heat sinking and fans), or I suspect longevity will be compromised. My other concern is how good the light dispersion is and how close these LEDs can come to the point source light obtained from Halogen and HID bulbs.
     
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    Interesting. I've never seen a CREE LED outperform a HID (as far as kits go). Someone ought to do a side-by-side comparo.
     
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    Installed the TapTurn flasher relay. What a PITA!!! Getting to the oem flasher was tough. Thanks to cproaudio for this pic. I don't know how you even got a camera in there to take that! It's a cool feature to have. Not everyone's thing, I know. You can also program your hazard flashers to do different things also.
     

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    Im sure the easy way to get to it is pull down the unit next to the steering wheel. Then you can just put your hand in!
     
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    I had to go up from behind everything and basically work with one hand. The difficult part was working one handed plugging the harness into the new relay.
     
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    I took a 1607 mile trip with two adults, 2 kids and our luggage. Kept it in ECO mode, averaged about 42 MPG. I wish it was closer to 50, but I guess the extra weight cost me. Plus I wasn't really focused on pulsing and gliding, etc.

    Today I took off the plastic wheel covers, polished the black rims and stuck Toyota center caps on. Much better looking!
     
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    i got the shift knob from amazon

    in amazon its called :
    Razo Luxis LS137A Silver Aluminum Shift Knob for Toyota Prius it cost $24.81


    i work at ElementCase and we laser engrave the cases we make. so i had access to laser engrave it =)
     
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    where you get your blind spot mirrors ??? i cant find any that looked like that on amazon
     
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    bought it from e-bay. Here is a link
     
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    just bought it :D thanks so much dawit
     
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    Upgraded front bumper! the bulbs in the turn signals are chrome amber bulbs.
    Speacial thanks to Dawit:) and SFV41901:) for all the help!

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    Washed and waxed, wiped down the dash and vacuumed everything. She looks really good. Drove to work and freaking birds did a bombing run about a half mile from the safety of work place parking. WHYYYYYYYYY???
     
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    They saw a nicely cleaned car
     
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    My new antenna. Looks great. Cheap. [​IMG]
     
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    Recieved my elm327 bluetooth so I can run the torque app on my galaxy note 2. First thing I did was program the reverse beep from forever to 1 beep. Thought about disabling the passenger seat belt alarm but its up in the air. I like the reminder. But at times it can be annoying if I have something heavy in in the seat.

    SCH-I605 ? 2
     
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    If someone gives me my first like, I can post my pic and show you my brand new tinted windows and enkei rims :)
     
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    Thanks Dawit!!!!
    Enkei performance sr6 rims.... tinted windows.... my little baby is only 1 week old!
    Ground effects kit, lowering springs, sway bar, solar moon roof, oh, and I couldn't resist those little light-up blue prius lights in the door thresholds. I'm a dork.
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