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Old Apr 30, 2017 | 08:20 PM
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Love the hood. If you don't mind, can you please PM purchase info?
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Old Jun 27, 2017 | 06:37 PM
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Mode Carbon diffuser installed. Let me get it washed and I'll get pictures up. As for the result, it looks factory and I'm a happy camper. Admittedly, I do think I prefer the brabus style a little bit more because it seems slightly more aggressive, however, with that said the Mode piece is still very nice.

I know I've been a POS -- but -- I still have the RW diffuser for sale. I'll get pics soon (I know I've been saying it but I'll really go grab some soon)
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Old Jun 27, 2017 | 06:41 PM
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Love the hood. If you don't mind, can you please PM purchase info?
I'm sorry, I never saw this and it has been a while. As for the hood, I picked it up by pure luck by running into someone who picked up a GT, traded in the E, and had this hood custom made for it. They were also Chinese and a small language barrier lead to some misunderstandings in the questioning so I actually don't know who manufactured it.

If the offer is right, I would consider selling the hood with how things have been going and how I just keep putting car stuff on the back burner. PM me if interested but realistically speaking we're probably looking at roughly $2/2.5k for me to let it go and even then I'm on the fence.
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Old Jul 15, 2017 | 01:29 PM
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I'm also getting a wobble at 90mph, I have the ECS hubcentric wheel spacers in the rear.
12.5mm rear 5mm in the fronts. I think I'm getting the vibration in the rear. Took all the wheels off and cleaned and sanded rotors smooth also sanded and clean wheels, still have the wobble at 90mph! Will try 8mm spacers in the rear.
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Old Jul 15, 2017 | 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by CSPAMG
I'm also getting a wobble at 90mph, I have the ECS hubcentric wheel spacers in the rear.
12.5mm rear 5mm in the fronts. I think I'm getting the vibration in the rear. Took all the wheels off and cleaned and sanded rotors smooth also sanded and clean wheels, still have the wobble at 90mph! Will try 8mm spacers in the rear.
The wobbling will not stop going with a smaller spacers. You either have bent/crack rims or your lug nuts are too short? I would have them both checked immediately.
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Old Jul 15, 2017 | 04:32 PM
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The wobble only started when the spacers got installed. Lug nuts were also ordered through ECS. Everything torqued perfectly. I'm going to take the rear spacers off and test drive the car without
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 09:03 AM
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Just so you know, I removed the front spacers on mine and the wobble completely went away. No bent wheels or anything, it was just the spacers.
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 09:40 AM
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If you have a micrometer you can check the spacers for parallelism, the lack of which causes wobbling.
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 09:46 AM
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Did you replace your front spacers with new ones? I'll try removing the front ones first. Thanks again for your help..
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 12:12 PM
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Did you replace your front spacers with new ones? I'll try removing the front ones first. Thanks again for your help..
No, I just left them off. The car doesn't look nearly as bad as I thought it would being lowered without spacers. And the tradeoff in that it is smooth as glass 100+ now is worth it.

Still have rear spacers in, btw, no problem.
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 12:28 PM
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Just went for a test drive after removing front spacers. You are right the wobble is gone!!!
I will leave the 12.5 mm spacers on in the back also. Thank you so much for your input..
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 12:35 PM
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 03:57 PM
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Odd spacers with the correct length Bolts causes it to wobble. Glad the problem was solved. You should have the spacers looked at.
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 09:01 PM
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I did notice that the original bolts will not go in all the way by hand like the ECS bolts did.
the wobble could have been that the ECS bolts are not a perfect fit in thickness.
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I noticed you both used 5mm spacers for the front. There seems to be enough space for a 10mm? I wonder if a 10mm up front would work without issues since it seems the 5mm spacer size is the issue...

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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 10:51 PM
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10mm won't work up front you would have to go 12.5mm hubcentric which would be too much.
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I noticed you both used 5mm spacers for the front. There seems to be enough space for a 10mm? I wonder if a 10mm up front would work without issues since it seems the 5mm spacer size is the issue...
Cars are too low and you can't adjust height in the front. Or, at least I can't because I have H&R's and not KW HAS or Renntech. Even with the 5mm I could hear rubbing here and there at first on brand new tires, after they wore down a bit and I downsized spacers the rubbing went away but the wobbles stayed.

Sometimes it's just that small spacers throw the car off just enough for the wobbles.

Glad the problem was an easy fix CSPAMG, enjoy
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