Another reason why you should have hood pins! [Merged 7-7] hood pins

[projctWraith]

WOW WTF Are pins really this important and/or widely recomended?

 

[TeamFusion]

WOW WTF Are pins really this important and/or widely recomended?

pictures don't answer that question for ya???? GET HOODS PINS!

 

[HighPsi92GST]

WOW WTF Are pins really this important and/or widely recomended?

Some will never learn !

If you have a CF hood, get pins or you will get a smashed windshield.

 

[projctWraith]

Wholy Crap!!! I've never heard of this before thanks for the warning guys. I was one weekend away from installing mine.

 

[jaxon23]

good reason to stay OEM. sorry about your misfortunes.

 

[leet]

Sad thing is, there will be PLENTY more threads like this.

People just don't learn

 

[TeamFusion]

Sad thing is that this hood is not even a week old and only driven around the block since I've gotten it out of the shop. I know how important hood pins are and I've always used them. Left to the body shop to show off the car and let them know what I wanted done and where the "hood pins" would be best. Lost $600 with this hood and barely used, going back to stock for a while

 

[projctWraith]

Why do these carbon fiber hoods do this more than any other type of hood? Is it that they flex more?

 

[tunerkid]

what do you mean, cf more than any other hoods? what other hoods are there? except for stock, last time i checked there are only 2 other type of hoods to get, fiberglass and cf. and since hardly anyone gets a fiberglass hood and everyone gets cf ones, obviously it gives the cf more of a chance. with any aftermarket hood, product quality is a huge factor, but even high quality products have flaws. all aftermarket hoods for whatever car and whatever type of composite, the latch will never be as good as the one of the stock hood. many cf and fg hoods use cf or fg to "weld" on a latch, that "weld" is a stress point of course and the smallest imperfection is a danger. all in all, if your going to get an aftermarket hood of any kind, for the love of god get hood pins. whats 30 bucks for pins compared to that new 400 cf hood you just bought? or that new 500+ windshield you might have to buy? or that 1000's of dollars in body repair? or your life? yea.. think about it.

 

[D_Eclipse9916]

Holy shit!!!! What wide body kit is that on your fenders, I reallllllly like it.

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

damn man sorry about your misfortune.. looks like the hoods flying off is more common with VIS hoods.. consider it a coincidence maybe? but just from the stories ive read and heard it always seem to be VIS hoods. Regardless, another post to tell people why hoodpins should be used.

 

[TeamFusion]

Holy shit!!!! What wide body kit is that on your fenders, I reallllllly like it.

All custom done selling the car though , can't fit the baby on the way anywhere in this car

 

[projctWraith]

You made a beleiver outta me TF!

 

[mitsugsx95]

Thats why hood pins should be sold WITH the hood, regardless.

Sorry to hear.

 

[tunerkid]

damn man sorry about your misfortune.. looks like the hoods flying off is more common with VIS hoods.. consider it a coincidence maybe? but just from the stories ive read and heard it always seem to be VIS hoods. Regardless, another post to tell people why hoodpins should be used.

also consider VIS is prob the highest selling cf hood out there right now, especailly DSM wise. VIS is the most popular way to go so obviously they have more of a chance of breaking. not VIS's fault though, they are recomended for "off-road" use anyway and do recomend hoodpins.

 

[dmorris05]

I had the same thng happen to my eclipse. The 300 dollar wiondshield isnt worth 150 dollar installed hood pins.....

 

[IMMORTALSPYDER]

can't fit the baby on the way anywhere in this car

You're mistaken on that, just put your stock seats back in.


It's funny that we keep getting all these threads, no offense to some people that don't know better, but there's always someone that'll pop up and say they've had a CF hood on with no pins for x amount of time. On the WRX forums it's worse. EVERYONE on there thinks that because there's a latch, it'll hold . Maybe they'll learn one day.

 

[TeamFusion]

You're mistaken on that, just put your stock seats back in.

Can't, fully fiberglassed interior and 3 amps, 4 subs, battery in the back and two 10lb nos bottles

 

[endlessMyk]

The sad thing is people with stock hoods will buy pins for the look. Saw a Neon with a huge nonfunctional scoop and hood pins on the stock hood.... but the people who invest in the carbon fiber hoods won't dish out extra for the pins...

 

[TeamFusion]

The sad thing is people with stock hoods will buy pins for the look. Saw a Neon with a huge nonfunctional scoop and hood pins on the stock hood.... but the people who invest in the carbon fiber hoods won't dish out extra for the pins...

Sad thing is that I have sparco hood pins sitting here waiting to install them but thought it wouldn't be a big deal to wait till the weekend to install them. Oops

 

[endlessMyk]

Sad thing is that I have sparco hood pins sitting here waiting to install them but thought it wouldn't be a big deal to wait till the weekend to install them. Oops

DAMN!!! That sucks x 426,247,146,638,513.5532765498348

 

[HighPsi92GST]

Thats why hood pins should be sold WITH the hood, regardless.

Sorry to hear.

The problem is though that people dont want them because they don't like how they look. They would rather have a smashed windshield and roof . Awhile back someone actually said they would rather risk having the hood fly up and hit the windshield then drive around with hood pins on their car. So selling pins with the hood won't do much.

looks like the hoods flying off is more common with VIS hoods.. .

Amazingly in another thread someone said they bought a VIS hood so they wouldn't need hood pins. Others suggested they still purchase pins, who knows if the person ever did. Im sure if they didn't, we will see the aftermath soon enough

selling the car though

Sorry to hear that. Good luck with the sale. Congrats on the baby though

 

[ninjai_ruken]

Took only one day out of the shop for this to happen. Can finally take pictures and tell everyone how important it is for you to have hood pins on your cf hood. My last hood I put them on and I finally decided to get a VIS evo hood. Put it on and I was on my way to A-Class body to get an estimate on the car. Drove a half hour away and my hood flew up. Was latch all the way down and it still decided to come up doing 50mph getting on the turnpike. Glass flew in my face and made small cuts on face. Luckly I had glasses on so I wasn't blinded, just couldn't see and it was about to rain. Made it all the way home (I know the risk). Just wanted to share my experience.

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Wow sorry about your luck, had that happen once on a different car and a metal hood so it sucked pretty bad. By the way not to get off topic but DAMN your car looks good wanna sell it naw if you don't mind me askin how much do you have into body and paint. Looks good other than the windshield



Edit: I just looked at your gallery and I think I have asked you that question before. Sorry about the window dude.

 

[TeamFusion]

Wow sorry about your luck, had that happen once on a different car and a metal hood so it sucked pretty bad. By the way not to get off topic but DAMN your car looks good wanna sell it naw if you don't mind me askin how much do you have into body and paint. Looks good other than the windshield



Edit: I just looked at your gallery and I think I have asked you that question before. Sorry about the window dude.

I am trying to sell it

 

[Defiant]

also consider VIS is prob the highest selling cf hood out there right now, especailly DSM wise. VIS is the most popular way to go so obviously they have more of a chance of breaking.

Or, since they make and sell more than anyone else, you might think they'd have figured out how to effectively construct the latch area with enough strength to withstand a drive down the road instead of just giving up and resorting to technology from the wooden wagon days.
Has anyone used Dzus fasteners?