Carbon fiber hood install help
04-19-23, 04:24 PM
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5th Gear
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Carbon fiber hood install help
Anyone have experience with the Seibon carbon fiber hood for the LC? Just went install it. The fit seemed almost perfect until the very end. Went too close to hood and it won’t catch on the second latch. Anyone have this problem or know if the actual hood latch can be adjusted up some? Trying to avoid using hood pins if possible. I noticed other people don’t have them. Thank you for any suggestions
04-21-23, 07:27 AM
#3
Pit Crew
I like the look of the hood. Tried searching online to find a distributor but was unable. Where did you order yours from?
04-21-23, 07:14 PM
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5th Gear
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04-21-23, 11:03 PM
#5
I had the same problem with the non-vented version of the Seibon hood. I ended up loosening the bolts on hood latch mechanism and adjusting it up as far up as it would go, then tighten the bolts. I moved maybe a cm or so but it was finally able to latch with a bit of force. (I removed the front bumper to get full access to the bolts for the latch)
Hope that helps. Seems like some folks are hit or miss when it comes to the fitment of these hoods.
Hope that helps. Seems like some folks are hit or miss when it comes to the fitment of these hoods.
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04-23-23, 11:57 AM
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5th Gear
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Appreciate it. Yeah, that’s kind of what we had to do. At first I thought the latch bar on the hood wasn’t long enough to catch. Once we got up into the bumper and got a better look, we could see that it just wasn’t catching the bar in the center. It was striking too far back.
04-23-23, 07:47 PM
#8
The factory bolts that hold the latches in place are shouldered and therefore don’t allow a lot of adjustment. Solution - replace the factory bolts with some they are the same thread and measured length from a hardware store that aren’t shouldered. They will allow you to adjust the latch up slightly so the hood catches it.
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06-23-24, 11:16 AM
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Intermediate
They look super, I have a white LC and it is the way to go. What is the cost of these hoods?
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