Carbon Fiber hood?
 

Hey guys,

im looking to get a carbon fiber hood to replace a damaged hood on my E36 M3. So i have been pokeing around ebay and found this hood http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW the price is a little interesting, any thoughts? any help and or advice is appreciate thanks!

-Hutch-

linky no worky

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

I'm guessing that's the link you're talking about.

Not a bad deal... usually carbon fiber hoods are around $500-600 plus $300 shipping... heh
I would question the quality of that one though.

If you do it though, do it for the look and style. The weight redux is so minimal it wouldn't be worth the money.

It says it installs just like stock, never can be too sure about ebay businesses....

Am not that big of a fan of the Cf hoods.... but that's just my personal op.

theres a few companies people use.. one is vis i think or something like that, and the other is carbon creations or something like that... neither are coming to my head right now... ill look around

David

What color is your car?

Im pretty sure hutchs car is black... so it would looks pretty sick!

David

Yeah, in that case it's ok, I wish they would finally start selling that "white CF" I heard about it on this show I went to two years ago, but I still haven't seen any on the market yet.

carbon fiber would look good on a dark car

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW


there is the working link and yes my car is Cosmo Black other wise i would have it painted but thats another reason im going carbon fiber, in the long run it will b cheaper to get a carbon fiber hood to replace the dented hood then get a stock hood and have to paint it as well as the fender matched in. so any thoughts on this hood? and i agree that im leary about Ebay buisness i emailed the company to see whats up, but i figured some familiar ppl's opinions would help!

-Hutch-

That pic looks about 17x better than the one komodo posted. That one didn't even have pictures OF THE ACTUAL HOOD!!
If your car's black enough, and you have some other custom, non-rice stuff done to your car (qualty, not too flashy stuff), then I say go for it.

what about the quality and such? u think its worth while ? or do u think im gonna b gettin crap?

-Hutch-

p.s. thanks for all the replys, i have had one reply on bimmerwerkz from furious and i posted this one after, hahah, thanks again guys!

the only thing that turns me off to that hood is the price... seems really really cheap... do they say anywhere how much it weighs? If you do end up getting it, make sur eyou give us some feedback! It will look really good on your car!

David

DON"T DO IT!
 

Hutch,

I checked out the link you posted and this is the first thing I noticed...

All our parts are manufactured from 100% REAL 3K CARBON FIBER!!!
The 3 K High Tensile strength carbon fiber used with our top quality epoxy/resin will give a part very strong.
Stronger then steel but much lighter. This kind of Carbon Fiber is used for aircrafts, space etc.
High Quality UV gel Coating to ensure shininess and the color not to become yellow.

Notice the lack of complete sentences? Come on, if they can't write how the hell would you trust them with parts for your bimmer.

Check out VIS, www.visracing.com

They have real carbon fiber that is UV coated so it won't wear in the sun.

Only draw back. VIS says that you need hood pins.

-Matt