Why you shouldn't buy cheap after market parts....

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bo0bh3ad
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Because the top half of your hood would end up somewhere along interstate 80 like me....


Modified by bo0bh3ad at 6:58 PM 12/20/2008


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samxini
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Thats scarry crap man.hope the person behind you was ok.

What brand hood was that?

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snake240
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wow. that is crazy.

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Whoa. what's the whole story behind this little mishap?

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yeah seriously man...you can't show something like that and not explain! I'm guessing maybe it was a "cheap" carbon fiber hood maybe??

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story or ban!

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story now

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Ilvemynissan
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How fast were you going?

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darens13 wrote:story or ban!

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AZ89two4Tsx
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Lovin the satin black!

Sorry bout the hood.

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i definitely wasn't expecting to see that lol

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LMAO.

OWNED!

what's the product and whats the story?

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aight i dont like hood pins so i tie my hood down with wires just in case. well today at work i was gonna test my starter alternator and battery. so i popped my hood latch and untied the wire. thats when a **** load of customers came in and distracted the **** out of me. Time to go home from work, i forgot that i left everything untied and unlatched in the parking lot. 10 second onto the freeway and the hood goes flying into the windshield. THANK GOD THE WINDSHIELD DIDN'T shatter. pulled over put the hood down tied it down. noticed a little fraying from the edge of the hood and didnt think too much about it. 15 more minutes down the freeway all of a sudden the top half of the hood goes flying over my head. I said screw it, kept driving and said what can I do about it now?

bo0bh3ad
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Duraflex is not the way to go....

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meh just rattle can that and rock the bottom half of the hood


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paint it and call it good. custom hood ftw

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samxini
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bo0bh3ad wrote:15 more minutes down the freeway all of a sudden the top half of the hood goes flying over my head. I said screw it, kept driving and said what can I do about it now?
This is signature status, I call it.

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pejsa s-13
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thats not really the companies fault. it flying up the first time was your fault thus compromising the safety of the hood.

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You're supposed to use hood pins.

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shoulda gotten these...

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pejsa s-13 wrote:thats not really the companies fault. it flying up the first time was your fault thus compromising the safety of the hood.
^ yeah that's what I was thinking...

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daaaammmmn what in the

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look at it this way... you got a free weight reduction for your car.... Only in

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hbpignosePA wrote:meh just rattle can that and rock the bottom half of the hood

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MagikDragon wrote:http://img143.imageshack.us/im...2.jpg

shoulda gotten these...
I had a set of those, they dont fit the S15's hood curve well.

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MagikDragon
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meh, mine fit alright, They just too a little massaging.

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MagikDragon wrote:
shoulda gotten these...


Church.

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I hope it wasnt a VIS hood...


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IDRFT95S14 wrote:daaaammmmn what in the
if you don't want it ill take it off your hands.

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AZ89two4Tsx
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Kalypso123 wrote:I hope it wasnt a VIS hood...
It better not be. I got one sittin on my garage waitin to be put on. Them things ain't cheap! I highly doubt it was a VIS.


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