First of all check whether the mounting points are available in the car. If it did not come as a stock option you might not have it, they use different boot panels for cars sold without the cargo cover
If you have the base version you cannot get a cover. I tried. Aqua-K is correct that side panels do not have the notches to accomadate the cover. Just another way for Toyota to try to get people to buy the "Two" trim level instead of the "One" trim level. However I have a cheap solution. I bought a black bath towel and cut four tiny slits along the long side of the towel. Two of the slits are along the middle of the side and about one inch from the edge of the black towel. These match up with the posts for the center headrest, and the posts from the center headrest are slid through the holes to hold the towel in place. Next spread out the towel and cut two more slots where the towel stretches to meet the folding seat releases on the left and right sides of the top of the back seat. Hang the towel on these knobs too. Now you have a flexible, black cover, and when anyone looks in the back window, all they see is black and the cargo area looks empty. Even if they look very closely all they see is a black towel. I have used the same black towel for three years now and although the sun is fading it, this trick still works. When it fades a little more, I will just flip the towel over to the other side of the towel which is still very dark and unfaded. I hope you find this useful. It worked very well for me.
Great solution..!! by the way you are an alien hitchhiking the galaxy right? The towel solution was a dead giveaway
The black towel can double as my cape when I occasionally forget my real cape. I am Batman! Just kidding. But now I have a towel in the car in case I ever get caught in the rain.
Thanks Scott D. I'm on my way to Target for a black towel, for the 2012 C I bought last week. So how do you keep it stretched from back to front? If the long end in back is attached to the center headrest and fold-down seat releases, what keeps it from just falling into the cargo area? Do you attach the front to something?
Hi hi Jersey-Jer. I was just looking at the few times I posted comments and saw your question from over a year ago. I do not have a way to stretch the towel or keep it from just hangong down into the cargo area. I think this still works ok, though. Just put whatever you have in the cargo area, and then lift the sides of the towel over your stuff so it is out of sight and to a passerby the cargo area just looks black and empty. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s a decent solution.
I realize this is an old thread but I feel like I can contribute for future readers. I bought my 2015 Prius C with Upgrade Package used and it did not come with a cargo cover when it should have - must've been removed at some point. I managed to snag one from a wrecked Prius C in a junkyard, came to just over $100 CAD which is a much better deal than the nearly $500 CAD the dealer sells them for. So, it might be worthwhile to call the local junkyards or check out their websites to see if they have a search function.
Should anyone see this thread and need one for a 2016 let me know. Mine is sitting in the closet collecting dust.
got a 2012 prius c 3 that needs a cover. gonna look into it further to determine if your 2016 is the same, BTW is your's a "hard" shelf or a soft cover? Matt in So Cal
Holy crap! Just got an "estimate" from the UPS Store - ground.... $90.00 +/- i'm sure. I'll throw that thing in my car tomorrow morning and stop by there tomorrow afternoon and get a real estimate. Surely it can't be that much. I don't want $ for it though especially if shipping is that ridiculous. Gets the darn thing out of my closet and out of my way.
Wow!! Let me know if you get a different price$ Often UPS is the most expensive but I was figuring on around $50 shipped.... Thanks for your effort, you can text me at 714 866 7747 if you wish Matt
Yeah, I was surprised it was that high, but it was just an online estimate. I'll go ahead and get that cost to ship from UPS and get a firm cost.. If you'd like me to check the US Postal Service, that will have to wait until Saturday. They close up way before I get off work.
