I was just reading Dualgen2's reply on here about carbon fiber hoods. He said that his hood cracks due to winter. Is this true? Does anyone else's hood have cracks caused by cold weather/any condition? I just put cf hood 2months ago and if this is true, i sure don't want my hood to crack. curious...

take yours off for the winter if you're worried about it...that's what i did:thumbsup

Last winter when my car sat outside the CF hood did not crack. That was even with 2 feet of snow on top of the car.

Originally posted by optikal
Last winter when my car sat outside the CF hood did not crack. That was even with 2 feet of snow on top of the car.

that was the one thing i was concerned about...which is why i took it off

Eh, I never heard of it before, which is why I left mine on. But, Carbon fiber you must remember is the same thing as fiberglass almost, it uses fiberglass resin, so I didnt think it would crack?

Mine has started to crack. It really sucks.

no cracks here...then again, ive only had it on 5 months...im not worried tho...it doesnt seem like it would....BRIAN

mine is cracking :(.....due to the fact that it flew up.....SO GET MAFUGGIN HOOODPINS IMO!!!1!!

Woops started a separate post and didn't even notice this one. I believe the deal w/ my hood was because I am turbo and it gets sooo hot underneath my hood but when the car is off it gets really cold and this process happening over and over again would cause it to crack. It sucks and I would advise people to take their hoods off during the winter, especially if you get cold winter near you and/or you under hood temps get really hot from being turbo.
-Dave

From what I see on your sigs, I've noticed the ones who said craking are turboed. So, I guess like ^^^ said the temp change from turbo heat vs. outside temp causes to crack easier. Does this happen during winter only? or summer? or all year long?

Dualgen2>> How does it crack and where? you got any pics of them?

I wish my stock hood would have survived my wreck last year because the cracking is starting to look bad on my cf one.

I just noticed in this thread how many people here have carbon fiber hoods, so Im postin just to add my sig pic...

Our C/F hood comes off for winter for one reason... just in case the car gets into a accident. If something were to happen, like Stef slid into a car, then we would like to at least have the hood and the wheels to sell to get the car fixed. No sence in fucking up things that can be sold for good $$$... that, and who in the hell needs to have a nice looking car in the winter imo???

lets see ive had my carbon fiber hood since june of 2002.. never experience any types of cracks.. but then again i live in san diego, california.. heh..

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Originally posted by Nackers
Our C/F hood comes off for winter for one reason... just in case the car gets into a accident. If something were to happen, like Stef slid into a car, then we would like to at least have the hood and the wheels to sell to get the car fixed. No sence in fucking up things that can be sold for good $$$... that, and who in the hell needs to have a nice looking car in the winter imo???

WERD

this is the second winter my c/f hood has seen and its still fine :shrug

plus i don't have a stock hood to switch back to

I just dug my car out of the snow the other day and no cracks as far as I can see on my hood. Although the weight of the snow on my front end popped a bolt out of the right side of my front end :(