Light-bar upgrade for LE and SE

To try and get us to buy upper trims for another 5-6k ;D

FWIW at least while driving the headlamps feel plenty bright and the turn signals are very visible. But yeah upper trims do have prettier versions.

Maybe far into the future if/when the lamps get gross and burn out they get swapped XD

 

anybody has any progress around here ?

 

Will probably try next year. It is quite expensive, specially the harness to the rear door, I'll probably use connection to the side tail lights like the Japanese blog post lol

 

hello!...it's been a year.... anybody tried them yet? a youtube tutorial will be a banger

 

Not yet, I barely got the car 3 months ago lol I've decided to pay out the car first before modding it, so it'll take more time. So far the japanese blog post has been the best guide i've found.

 

At night, I don't like the design of the uni-tail light on the Gen 5 for two reasons.

1. It isn't straight. It has the shape of a bow-tie rather than a line. Instead of minimal is looks "busy".
2. It isn't WIDE. The rear lights do not span the width of the car due to the way the rear fenders bulge. It make it look like there is less car on the road.

 

Well, after a long time of planning, I might do this, I have most of the parts identified but I'm missing one, and it's the harness that goes from the fuse box (I think) to this one 81935-47090 (the one that powers up the middle brake light and the two lights for the bar) since the one on my prius doesn't have constant power for the two lightbulbs on the bar. Any one has a clue on the part number for that?

 

Absolutely. Of course they're visible, but by far my most annoying thing about the car. Completely ridiculous decision by Toyota.

 

Just wanted to update this that I bought the parts, installed them and it works!


In summary, I spent around 280 USD in parts and 50 on hiring a dude to replace them since I'm a clumsy lol

 

81581-47080: For the rear body (red line is different with mirrors and stuff plus 2 holes to insert the leds)
81935-47090: Harness to replace the existing one that only feeds stop lamp, this has 2 extra connectors for the leds
81965-46010: The red leds, you need 2 of these
75431-47050: The Toyota emblem for the rear body, trying to remove the existing one will pretty much ruin it.

I ordered all of them from japan, for some reason I was not asked to pay import taxes lol so yay for me.

There's 1 issue, the conector (rear door harness) that feeds the new harness has the green power cable, but isn't powered, according to my investigation it seems disconnected on the next level; the roof harness, but there are like 10 different variants and you have to take the inside roof to replace that, which is not only riskier but expensive as hell, so... I ended up using the left's taillight power (green cable) using a new cable inside the body all the way to the rear door to power up the new harness. Pretty much that this japanese dude did.

 

I ordered from Impex Japan, 1 month from order to delivery.

 

So about $225 plus shipping? Can I ask about how much shipping was for you?

I've ordered from Impex a few times. Reasonably good experience as long as you understand you're not going to get your stuff quick. Got burned once on shipping on a large item. I knew it was going to be bad, but it was way worse than I expected. I'm a little more careful now and make sure the stuff I buy from them isn't too big.