so I want to get a carbon fiber hood but am in college and don't have a whole lot of money. should I spend the money top get a real CF hood or find someone to wrap it in vinyl?

 

CF wrapped hoods FTMFL!!!!!

 

I did a wrap recently on my car, just couldn't justify the $1100 for hood/trunk combo. CF vinyl has come a LONG LONG way







I will say, if you've never wrapped something or worked with Vinyl, you will not have a good time with the trunk! Hood was fairly easy to do. I picked up all the Vinyl from ProVinylShop pretty cheap and took us a good day to do everything, trunk took forever. I have to finish the roof still btw..

 

how long have you had it? how has it standed up to the elements. it will be seeing alot of sun and heat 90's plus for months strait

 

I just installed it on my car so I can't say anything on the long term durability. I believe it's 7yr warrantied tho!

 

well thats good. do you know what it covers?

 

I assume just defects like fading or peeling. It depends on the manufacturer so check with who you are buying it from.

 

Any tips for the trunk portion?

 

Heat and a friend! lol. It would be pretty damn hard to do by yourself. Im not great at vinyl but fairly decent and the trunk was def tricky as hell!

 

That **** is not easy to work with anyway. It cools off real quick and gets kinda hard when it's not warm. I wrapped a dash/gauge bezel thingy on a '93 miata with it. But I saw his car this weekend and it looks good.

 

I mean were the hardest parts just navigating the light holes and stuff? I mean it seems pretty straight forward outside of that?

 

what brand did you buy and where at?

 

reading > you


so anyways....is it worth doing, im pondering on it real hard

 

lolzzzz

 

Byt's car looks good! And hoping he is gonna wrap my trim for me like he said..lol

 

damn, no one likes real CF anymore?

 

I like real CF just fine, again, just can't see spending $1100 on a hood/trunk combo. The stock pieces are pretty light as is so it would be purely looks. And the vinyl really looks pretty damn good. Im going to clear mine once I finish the roof and it will be hard to tell then it's not real...at least until you open the hood or trunk :p

Hexis CF Vinyl.

The hardest part is wrapping it around the face of the trunk with the lights, that curve around the wing area and then the way it also rolls to the sides a lil bit makes for a lot of extra material that you need to shrink up. Just takes a lot of time and patience!

 

you dont have a lot of money? don't get a CF trunk then. Priorities!

I concur with byt, just wrap it.

 

i like real cf lol still need my oem hood and to make my oem ss cf lip haha

 

im doing my roof soon, already have the stock just waiting for a nice weather here in canada its raining as hell lol

hope its not hard to install!!!

 

byt: did you use one big piece for hood and one fro trunk
or do you have lines where you had toconnect two or more pieces to fit that big of an area??

 

i want a cf lip soo bad!!!

 

haha im still gonna make some dont worry just trying to pay off credit card first lol

 

Dude your doing the roof? Id love to see pics of that!!

 

I think I am gonna wrap mine soon. I think it's the way to go.