Re: Badge Graft
Thank you all for the great feedback and for bringing up some important issues that I should address.
First of all, I meant to credit Flopshot with giving me the idea in the first place. Many thanks to you!
Secondly, Big-Foot asked who John and Phil are. John and Phil’s is the dealership here in Corvallis that I purchased my car from. I have removed their license plate bracket but have kept their little plastic sign to fill in the space while I await the arrival of my shiny new Crater Lake Oregon plates. Your are going to love your BRM Camry Big-Foot. The color is a dust and bug magnet but looks great as long as you keep it washed and shined. I am going to Zaino (clay-bar and polish) my Camry soon and this should add to finish as well as make bugs and other offending items easier to wash off.
Steve had a good comment about the redundancy/redundancy issue with the synergy drive badge. That occurred to me as well and I think that I am in agreement with you.
JHSmith inquired about badge adhesive issues. I used “3M Scotch-Mount Molding Tape”. The 1.5 meter roll cost about $5. The packaging states “Ideal for attaching vehicle body side moldings, trims and emblems”. This stuff is identical or nearly so to the adhesive strips that were on the body side moldings and spoiler that I installed last week. It even has the same brick-red colored liner covering that must be removed prior to installation. The gray color and texture of the tape is also identical or nearly so to the body side molding and spoiler tape as well as the original material adhering the hybrid badges to the quarter panels. I am very confident that it can be removed by the dental floss/fishing line technique and would not have put it on otherwise. Alternate materials and methods are out there. We would all like to hear about what you decide and what your results are John!
Finally, it is important to readdress the issue of emergency personal being able to identify the vehicle as a hybrid and what that means as far as hazards from high voltage electricity discharge goes. This has been talked about in other threads. The high voltage cables run underneath the center of the car and not along the sides where extrication of the occupants is likely to occur.
I work at a hospital as a Radiology Technologist (take x-ray pictures of peoples insides for fun and profit) and have talked to a couple of Paramedics about how they feel about the subject. It does concern them although they feel that the added risk is somewhat insignificant compared to all of the other dangers associated with rescue such as gasoline, hazardous materials and countless other factors that they have to deal with. It is also important to note that there have been many Prius accidents around the country over the last ten years and the issue of high voltage discharge has never been a significant issue.
Sorry about the online book-length reply.
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