KK's Prius Lo-brid

[KKtrips]

Yup, yup. I know it's criminal, but I'm an old man now, with a mid life crisis impending plus I'm doing a fair number of Km commuting each day so I needed something cheap, reliable and I felt the need for some mod-cons like A/C and cruise control.

There won't be that much to this build, but I do intend on modifying it to get it looking somewhat right. Because right now it looks a bit like an Uber and I feel I should be named Muhammed 806 or something.

I plan on changing that fairly quickly, so I've just eyed up some Tanabe DF210 lowering springs from Japan. This picture is meant to be on DF210's but freshly installed on stock wheels so it should be promising if they settle down after a thousand miles and with some bigger rims and tyres to fill the guards.

With that in mind I bought me this set of 16" Advan RG's and going to chuck on some 205-50-16's or 205-55-16's to give it a tiny bit of stretch on 7" rims so I also hope to fill in the guards about 1/3" - 3/4" more than the stock 195-55-15's do.

Also one of the first things I plan on doing is removing the front number plate and mount, then try to hide it discreetly as possible in the lower grille recess. Kinda like the look of the deleted front plate bracket in this pic.



Oh yeah, I've also ordered a front lip - which I hope will look fine but it's cheap enough so will not be a big loss if it looks shit and I bin it.
 

 

I liked the JP Vizage kit the best. Not too wild.  But still US$1K+ freight, painting and fitting. So extremely unlikely to happen


 

FYI - this is stock height, then freshly installed DF210's and finally 1000 mile+ settled in height.

Oh yeah I forgot to say, I'm getting the windows tinted next Thursday - try and hide my shame somewhat.

[yetchh]

Fag.. 

 

 

 

 

 

Just jokes. 

 

In weird way I kinda like the prius. 

[Chris.QCR]

Fuck yeah im digging it aye ! 

[kyteler]

Please use a fibre glass reinforced plastic kit with 134 individual pieces to make the plate work. 

[KKtrips]

I did look at full body kits but fuck me that shit is spendy. I'm not thaaaat into it. LoL

[kyteler]

...you say that now, but.. 

 

Nek minit.  Entire taxi fleet in full race spec. 

 

[HighLUX]

Your uber driver Chris is on his way

[63Ragtop]

Ban.

 

 

 

Hehehe.

[Nominal]

29 minutes ago, KKtrips said:

Oh yeah I forgot to say, I'm getting the windows tinted next Thursday - try and hide my shame somewhat.

OK, paging

@Archetype

[Bling]

36 minutes ago, KKtrips said:

Oh yeah I forgot to say, I'm getting the windows tinted next Thursday - try and hide my shame somewhat.

Damn, I was going to make a joke about 5% tints too. Opportunity missed!

[Steelies]

Mean. throw stack of brown paper bags on parcel tray and run multiple rego labels? 

[datlow]

dont forget the hats

[Toucan]

This floats my boat

[Beaver]

Serious question, whats the fuel consumption like compared to a small modern euro diesel? Obviously have to account for RUCs as well but yeh, be interesting too see what the $/km is for both types of vehicles 

[KKtrips]

All my 2 litre euros were typically 1000km on a 50ish litre fill. Give or take 5 litres.

That works out at 4.5 - 5.5 litres per 100km. The Prius is reading 4.2 - 4.4 litres per 100km on the gauge. But I'm yet to fill a tank to confirm this. 

So a Prius is more economical than a Euro diesel even before you add in the diesel RUCs. Include the fact that a Prius has no RUCs and it became the selling point for me.

[yetchh]

 

Keep it simple

 

 

[jakesae101]

Good to see Leons Pris living on through another friend 

[My name is Russell]

@ jakesae101

 

Was that you driving up Ohiro road on Wed with no bonnet on?  

[Muncie]

Ive considered one but too on fuel economy alone. Stick a generator on a tow hitch as a range extender.

[governorsam]