Carbon Fiber Nightmare and SEIBON Carbon
 

Excited to get home and install all these parts I've opened up a damn nightmare.

First, the carbon mudflaps I bought won't fit my Nismo. Stupid me, I should of known since the Nismo's body is different. I can't expect the Z store to take them back so I'll put them on the classified and hopefully recover part of my $.

I bought a beautiful vented hood from Ebay, manufacturer is SEIBON and I couldnt understand why they were only 675. Now I know why.... I just don't get how they go through all this trouble to make such a nice item yet none of the DAMN HOLES MATCH!!! The clip holes are too large for the rubber seal, 3 holes are missing and two are not lined up right. The Wiper Spray area is too thick so the clips wont go in. The holes for the rubber stoppers are too thick and too small so they wont fit either. WTF!!!!! Spent 2 hours messing with it and I'm done with this pc of SH#$.

To make matters worth, bought a Ti shift know and the EBAY loser won't even email me back after 2 weeks.:shakes head:

That's it.....No more mods for a while, sad how people don't back their goods anymore. Oh well, parts on Classified section with HONEST Descriptions.

Be careful with all the above and Happy Thanksgiving

sorry to hear that man, personally I quit buying parts off ebay once I stopped driving mustangs. On the Z I'd rather pay a little more to make sure it all works out ok. Been hearing negative things about seibon for awhile. I went full cf (fingers crossed parts haven't arrived yet) but I worked closely with the company making my parts and they are one off pieces. Like I said hopefully it comes out ok.

Thanks bro. Let us know how you do on your parts, I may give it one more chance if I get a positive reference from someone off the board. At least the exhaust, intake and system went well..

Yeah, I really haven't heard anything good about Seibon. Sorry about your experience.

Wow Sorry to hear about that! hope things turn for the better for you down the road!
Happy Thanksgiving

are you sure u ordered a 370z hood, and not mistakenly ordered a 350z hood? because i believe the sebion hoods aren't out yet officially

Thats Seibon quality for you.

+1000:tiphat:

Any hood you buy will have fitment issues. The seibon fitment is 95%-98% on the G37 and expect the same for your car.

^+1! -I also wouldn't put it past someone to sell the wrong product labeled as a 370 hood on eBay not really caring or realizing they aren't the same hoods.

To the OP. Don't give up modding all together man but from now on I'd definitely consult some of the vendors here for your purchases. I can't say we have bum vendors here that would send you poor quality products with fitment issues etc. Some of the vendors here have already shown customer service that is considered to be "above and beyond" the norm.

Happy modding:tup:

I bet thats what happened. Seibon is not the greatest but hell not this bad. My experience with them on my old rsx-s was not that great but after 80 bucks to a body shop the holes I needed were created and window washer were mounted and everything lined up nice. Sorry to hear about this.:mad:

Definitely a 370 hood. Not trying to be a pain, I really don't mind some mods, like I said, owned a good size bike shop a while back. Built Carbon GSXR's, Duc's and MV's until my hands had blisters on them.

I'm ok with some mods but this is just a bit silly. It just cracks me up that you would spends hours getting this weave perfect and the edges finished yet when your drilling the holes for the mounts they are not even close. I may just plug the wiper sprayers since I dont need them in CA anyway, buy new plugs and a tube of weather strip sealer.

I'm a little cooler now, pretty PO'd last night. If no one wants it off the classified in the next day or so I'll start working on it, I have every tool known to man, just dont feel like F'ing with it.

Besides, you know how carbon is...cool to look at but not like I'll gain 20 HP or anything. Love this car, want to keep fixing it up... Wife wants me to get another street bike to fix up but already had them all and kind of tired of that scene after my shop shut down.

Thanks again, appreciate the feedback.

I like JB's comments, think I'll just hit up a bodyshop. Neighbor owns 6 of them so I'm sure he can hook it up! I was thinking about running some a thick black stripe down the center where the ridges are and narrowing it at the front, then maybe blacking out the rims and making the hood match the silver with just a tad of carbon exposed.

Any thoughts on the above. I already dropped about $4K into the system and its sweet, all hidden in the spare area so clean as can be. Exhaust and intake is done, ordered some carbon badges but think I may just have them filled and painted now. Anyone seen a Z with this sort of stripe? Went through the whole PS area but nothing like this (some cool concepts though).

PS. Pretty much stick with the board members thus far but regret not using them for the hood....oh well, that's what I get for buying off instinct.

I am so glad that I am happy with my stock Z the way it is. It makes life so easy to live and my wallet stays full and happy as well.

That is so far from the truth it's not even funny

I stopped selling Seibon outright because I got tired of the fitment issues, and I got tired of them not working with us when packages arrived to customers damaged that they shipped. They are the only hood manufacturer we dealt with that ever had such issues. I decided to stick exclusively to those manufacturers that I didn't have to worry about hood fitment issues, and it has worked out splendidly. They are more expensive, and we don't sell as many hoods as we used to, but I don't care. I'd rather sell 1/4 the # of hoods and know that each one that goes out the door is perfect. It will be the same for us with this car. If no firm I trust releases a hood, then we won't sell hoods, simple as that.