the first thing to go

Are you going to recycle them?

 

toss them out into the woods, or go fishing with them, bet you can snag a dalphin or 2.

 

Hey Fred,
Where's you get yours? My Mom's in Nashville and is wondering about a good place to go.

 

I'm convinced that if the Prius came without the trim rings, most of the people who make fun of them and clamor on and on about how stupid they look would be the first ones to order them as a custom upgrade.

I took them off for a day myself but the spokes underneath have that indentation at the outside part of the rim that makes it look like it's missing something. Plus I parallel park often enough that curb scraping is not uncommon. I like the added protection. Besides, the rest of the car is so ugly no amount of wheel upgrade is going to ....well, never mind.
*ducking*

 

There's probably an aerodynamic quality to the rings we're not thinking about. OH OH I feel an experiment coming..... call Mythbusters.

Do you get better gas mileage with the wheel rings on?

 

Will do Ted, I'll let you know how it goes.

 

you beat me too it, theres no other reason to have them it has to be an aerodynamic reason

 

are those random numbers or are you quoting something

 

They may have some resale value, to those of us who used our original trimrings to mount moondisks. I have no idea why I would want another pair, unless it was to protect the rims from curbs.

 

I would be you have your numbers reversed even if they are made up. The disks are plastic so they weight almost nothing whereas the wheels of a car are one of the most turbulent flow regions on a vehicle

 

Same here. Not sure why, but in my neck of the woods, curbs like to jump out in front of me. The trim rings have always taken the hit instead of the much more expensive wheels.

 

If you take the rings off, put them up for private sale here on PC and I bet you'll have someone who mashed theirs against a curb buying yours up in a heartbeat.

 

A savvy buyer will know the Trim Rings come with the Prius with higher option package. Only the 'Base' Prius does not come with the rings, so it's better to stash these aside for future sell/trade-in instead.

Toyota is also pretty Smart (or just cheap) for 2008 Touring's 16" wheel design as well. Insead of new alloy pattern, they just snap on a plastic 7-spoke cover to hide the original alloy wheel from 2007 Prius Touring.

 

Where I am from (Northern NJ) I can parallel park and keep my prius about a foot from the curb and I will still not have the otherside sticking out into traffic due to all the giant SUV owning soccer moms. The prius is so small but big at the same time.

 

Umm... I don't think either of those statements is true. Someone with a 2008 touring and someone with a base model correct me if I'm wrong.