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

@WolfpackBill - did you just buy the center caps or did you plastidip them as well, leaving the crome toyota symbol?

 

Today was the washer nozzle delete.

 

Many thanks! Ordered them, coming in a couple weeks. One request... do you have a pic of the doors closed? Please and thanks

 

I'm excited my friend! Can't wait.

 

I Plastidipped the cap as well. The caps that I have allows the Toyota emblem to be clipped on so I took the emblems off and Plastidipped the cap.

 

is this the before pic?

 

Somebody's going to happy !!

 

Shortly after I posted this I realized that I put it in back to front. I was probably rushing the finish to beat sunset. Here's the morning after revision.



Here's a few snapshots detailing how I fabricated the plug.



I found a carriage bolt with a 1" head. Using an angle grinder and a dremel tool, I sculpted it to closely match overhead profile of the washer port. Then I hit it with a coat of primer, and a shot of 8V1, and installed it using he original gasket.

 

No, that's the after pic.

Perhaps "delete" is too strong of a term. Let's call this a washer port plug.
It's using the original gasket from the washer port which keeps it raised a bit.

 

Gotcha

 

At @sfv41901s pad to install some df210s.

 

Today's project: Inverter Cover (and Friends) Installation

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Before:


After:


The coolant bottle and the wiring harness covers were simple snap-ins. However, the inverter cover was made for Lexus & Prius v (a.k.a プリウスα). So it takes some tweaking to get this to fit in the ZVW30 just right.

The inverter cover has three issues.

1. There's a grounding bracket that interferes on the corner near the fuse box.
2. There's a mounting hole which has nothing for the push-pin to push into.
3. The radiator cover doesn't play nice with the forward edge of the inverter cover.

The grounding bracket issue took a little work with a cutting wheel and some touch up work with a dremel sanding drum.

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For the mounting hole issue, I fabricated a fake backing for it. It's purely cosmetic.







For the case of the interference between the radiator cover and the inverter cover ...


I used my dremel sanding drum to shave the radiator cover a bit.


There, it is.

 

You could use one of this...... I think it was on isle 5, at Lowe's..... Right? @Accordlayingkit .

 

lol that's right!

 

Lowered the car on Megan springs..

 

I finally got around to installing those hinge covers.

Before:


After:


That's much better!

 

Went over to sfv4190 pad got a taste of Prius101 had my DRL's hooked up to a switch I'll take some better pics later car is dirty ...Oh also installed some HID's and OEM Toyota window visors that was a few weeks ago
next up drop and front lip

 

So your drl turns on with your headlights?