Hey everyone, The door sill guards that I ordered from Toyota finally arrived for my week old prime today. Turns out they included installation on the price I paid. The cost of it was something like, 50$ which is money but not *extravagant* amounts. Unlike previous models that had clips and illumination, it looks like these are just 3M glued down. Should I ask for the installation fee refunded to me and DIY? I can't help but think this would be stupid simple to do and would avoid a lot of hassle. I am a bit of a perfectionist type though and for a new car, I'd had to put them on at a weird misplaced angle etc. I was already fine with the price for the finish/quality/look of factory sill guards without knowing it included installation from the service folks. But the time and hassle of taking the car to the dealer is something I want to avoid. Is it as simple as just measuring where they start/stop and putting them on? If so do I just ask for some leaflet with instructions to measure out where the sill is applied and use masking tape to mark the positioning? Am I overthinking this? Its our first ever new car and I feel like I'm overthinking this and letting my baby related sleep deprived brain make me more anxious than I need to be. --- Side note: I want a hatch bumper guard but there are no precuts available without a bunch of other PPF sold as expensive kits with reasonable shipping costs to Canada. I may be stuck going Toyota or trying to cut my own from a PPF sheet. Is the dealer bumper guard any good? It seems kind of pricey and the images make it seem like its a very small 2 inch or less sized bit of PPF film. Anyone found a good aftermarket available in canada? Or have a photo of the "bumper applique" as Toyota calls it for the gen 5? I know I could use a blanket, or get one of those flip up blanket things that velcro to the car fabric as an option too. But full disclosure, I have ADHD, and I have little kids, and I will most certainly forget to grab the blanket or flip something down in a rush in the future. For 100% certain, and I want to avoid deeper scratches unloading the hatch or resting something on the edge of the hatch while wrangling kids.
So they are easy, but turns out - they ordered me body side moulding so when I got home and opened the box I was very confused and not happy. Buying the car: great experience. Getting door sill protectors.... Apparently door sill means body side moulding... And it was special order on the receipt, in a bit of a rush to get in and out after work before groceries and making dinner... I didn't think to check the text on the box. Lesson learned. They better take it back
You should be getting: PT413-47230 - Door Sill Protector Door Sill Protector At least that's the US market version. I doubt there's a difference between the US and Canadian markets, but who knows. I'm pretty sure I linked the installation instructions to the European door sill protectors to some other thread a few months back. The problem was that they only included instructions for the front doors. For whatever reason, there are no installation instructions for the US or Canadian market versions on TIS.
Well I definitely asked for door sill. And I definitely discussed it with the guy on the phone. They mixed up something somewhere and I didn't think to triple check at the desk before it was about to close -_-
This is an option as well. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKwa1Ie Use a heat gun (gently) to allow it to confirm to the curves. The adhesive and surface appears pretty durable.
Here are the installation instructions: https://www.toyota-tech.eu/aimuploads/843d3778-3e3e-4f33-985b-ddaa9d9c3830/Prius-Plug-in_Aluminium_Scuffplates_PW382_0R000_AIM_006_274_0.pdf (I did check mine at some point and they were not at the specified 70mm position. Tut tut. Probably right to want to do it yourself...)
I'm curious. Do you get them for all four doors in Europe or only the front? The instructions are only for the front, but we get rear door sill covers in our packages.
I guess they're not the same part anyway - these sort of port-installed things are often locally sourced; they don't come from Toyota Japan.
What do the rear covers look like? I’m in the US and we only receive front covers. That said, I’m about 30 minutes from the US/Canadian border and it wouldn’t take that much effort to go to a Canadian Toyota dealer to pick these up if they fit my needs.
When I look on Toyota Canada website I see them as an option; it’s difficult to link but here’s a screen grab, with CDN $’s: I’m always puzzled why Toyota doesn’t include door threshold protection; seems like an “option” that most everyone would want. Well not really puzzled; the reason is self-evident: chisel another $331.63 CDN (installed) out of buyers. Something like this should be put on at the factory, come standard. our Gen 3 Touring we found on the lot, with about 10 kms on it (brand new), and it had the door sill protectors (over-the-top Gen 3 illuminated for the fronts). The dealership never made mention of them; they don’t show up on the bill of sale. I’m not sure if they came standard or were installed at a potential customer request, a sale that fell through. The car had build-date August 09, and we bought it in November 10.
Ah I see. They just use 3M tape. Very simple. Install of $80 is wild. You just need it to be above 10C and the area you're installing it to to be warm for it to stick. Personally I'm waiting for it to be warmer because I also have some PPF to install for the bumper, door sills (internet says you can stick the metal sills over ppf to avoid grit getting under the plastic), and ceramic coating. I'm gonna spend a Saturday in April doing it all when it warms up.
