drexappeal

Hahaha...true.

electromethod

Shipping is a flat 160 anywhere. I ordered this hood last week before this sale so mine should arrive today or at worst tommorow. If it comes today, I will post pics for you guys to judge for yourselves. They are pretty much just emptying out their inventory of blems, overstocks, etc I think with this 2 day sale. I called up pretending to be someone else and asked about the cf hoods for five different cars.... most ended up being out of stock. Out of the ones in stock, some are blems and some aren't he said.... which I interpret as "if you don't ask, they ship you a blem and tell you tough luck." If you ask, they will supposedly tell you if it's a blem, but don't forget their quality standards regarding blems might be far less than yours or mine. Just be careful I have my fingers crossed. Even if it's a blem, it's still a good price if you guys plan on painting it over..... don't forget that fitment might not be perfect and you will end up having a body shop do some work on it.

I have seen a few erebuni hoods over the years and it's a hit or miss, depending on who made it for them. Let's hope this is a hit. Got my fingers crossed waiting

kompressor85

damned. i DO love a good deal. but every time i see a kid with a car that has a carbon hood on it, i scoff. i just couldnt be that damn much of a hypocrite, could i?


besides, erebuni stuff fits like **** 60% of the time, every time.

drexappeal

Paint it. Problem solved. Nobody will know it's carbon fiber except for you.

Thing is, it's the sedan only.

kompressor85

painting it is impossible. a good MB painter would be able to get close, but never dead on. who can match the jersey and carolina sun fading that i'm sure had occoured?

and besides, with it being sedan only, that made up my mind for me :-P

EDIT: you sure its sedan only? i dont see any footnotes on the side. curious if the sedan and coupe's original part #'s are the same.

MJ50

uh oh drex...

drexappeal

Not impossible. Look at mig888's pics. His is painted.

If you look on that link for the sale and click on w203, there's a link at the bottom of the carbon fiber hood page that leads to aerodynamics. It only has sedan photos. Someone above said there's nothing for the coupes and I know for a fact the coupe hood is different than the sedan.

Blake P

100% of the time!

drexappeal

You down, MJ?

gregr09

If I had my roof painted....hmm

Opinions?

Blake P

@ the black roof.
@ the black hood.

There are ways you can incorporate your paint color and still show off the cf hood that will look more tasteful than leaving it completely unpainted.

yangfan

seems like a $285 gamble i just got back from vegas...and the gambling god was benevolent to me

i want cf...but only if it'll fit right


how do would u mold cf anyway? so tempting...yet discouraging

gregr09

My thoughts exactly. I wonder how much it'll run to paint the roof.

blackbenzz

Like zees? (click to enlarge)

drexappeal

Damn, if I could only take off from work right now, I would've picked it up myself and paid $125 (no shipping cost)!

Oh well.

MiKeSSw203

wtf you can do pick up?? I think I'm feeling sick now .

Blake P

If you mean the silver benz, that's definitely along the lines of what I mean... but I probably wouldn't show that much CF. Sometimes less is more.

valexv

does any make a carbon fiber hood for the coupe?

drexappeal

I didn't even ask. They asked me!...

But it's in Sun Valley and there's no way I could've gotten all the way there without having to take 1/2 day, which I'd lose money for doing. Oh and it was apparently the only one left in Cali.

drexappeal

Pshek is the only one I know that has one.

yangfan

so i called, and shipping to Seattle, WA is $210!!!

about the fitment, they said that they have a pretty good mold and they're a lot more strict about their CF products than the fiber glass ones. Only thing you need to do is "adjust" the hood when you put it on.

in the end...i didn't get it.

i'm not too sure how i feel about it right now....

rlee02135

i called and they said they have 1 at each warehouse, then the guy made up a bunch of crap about them not allowing you to pick up because once you get to their warehouse it could be gone....

i don't trust the fitment either.

yangfan

good thing i didn't buy

drexappeal

One in NY, one in Cali supposedly. Shipping was quoted at $210 for me also (I guess since they're the last two? ) They brought up local pick-up to me because the wherehouse is in Los Angeles and it would've had to be picked up by 6:00pm today.

Anyways, wasn't worth $335 for me. I've purchased from them before, but that was a spoiler for my MX-6, which was perfect fit. Hoods are a different story. I'd rather not f' around with hood fitment issues.

AMGJared

Well I guess I can be the first to say that me and Tom with the E320 both bought hoods for our cars...he went with Matt with the A4 to pick them up at the shop. Excellent quality hood, have two of them sitting in my garage, most likely will install tomorrow and I will post pictures.