mrd

Well, I read this thread and decided to purchase a seibon ts style hood for my car. I was very afraid after reading this thread. Because mainy threads I have read about CF fading, I wanted to spray mine with a two part polyeurothane clear coat with UV blockers and absorbers, but because of this thread, I decided to fit mine on my car before going to the expense of shooting it. I feel confident that I received an original Seibon hood because I live next to the factory, and the whole saler that I picked it up from is next to Seibon, and they do not stock Seibon parts, they just send a truck over and pick it up from Seibon as needed. I seen other threads where people say they received thier product in a brown box, or it had a sticker on the good saying Seibon, but mine was in a white bos that said Seibon all over it. inside it was rapped in plastic that said Seibon all over it, and the hood has a metal badge on the inside that says Seibon, so perhaps some of the problems some people are experiencing are due to Seibon knock offs. I measured my OEM hood and the Seibon before even trying to put it on, I could not measure for warp factors, but inital demensions were all the same. So I put it on the car and there was no problem, the hood fits ecactly like my OEM hood. I took it off had it shot with the Dupont UV clear coat, and put it back on again, I did have to take a file to bore out the holes for the the rubber stops, other than that everything fit fine, it was also missing a couple of holes for the rubber linning on the front, but I just used 3m double sticky tape to hold down the corners. But most importantly the hood is an exact match for fit.