The ugliest Yaris part. Can we do something aout it .. ?

[frownonfun]

i really don't see this as the ugliest part of the yaris. looks like a button to open the hatch to me. might as well get rid of those pesky door handles while your at it.

Originally Posted by MadMax

Or buy a black hatchback and you hardly notice it/it already color-matches the car!



Cheers! M2

i still think maybe i should have gone with the black.

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

wouldn't be very hard to run a cable back there up to the front somewhere, then delete the exterior handle.

I really wish one of the bigger brains on this forum would do a DIY on this. I love my Yaris, I really do, but I would love it even more if it had a remote hatch release somewhere in the cockpit...and a way to lock it from the hatch that doesn't require using the key.

And I would need a mechanical solution, as I don't have power locks.

Cheers! M2

[uncleyaris]

The hatch is such little space get rid of it all together if you want.

[RagnaCaT]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

^ LOL. He suggests a new car to fix that part. ok, that really is funny.

+1

[eTiMaGo]

another problem, even if you could unlatch it from somewhere else, it's gonna be hard to actually get a grip on the hatch itself in order to lift it up! Couple solutions though, you could somehow fit a spring to push the hatch back far enough so you can get your fingers under the bottom edge, or use a door popper which I believe is more or less a small electrically-actuated piston that will push the door out a bit...

Or get the electric trunk life damper thingie from a luxury sedan or van and retrofit that so it opens and closes the hatch all the way by itself

[cali yaris]

^ Simpler than all that. Just use a stronger lift, it will open itself.

when I switched to a carbon fiber hatch, it would open itself with the stock lifts -- same concept.