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I am looking for a Vorsteiner hood for my E39 M5. can you please help me find one. thanks
E39 M5 Vorsteiner hood, are they still available?
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Your only chance is finding a used one. They've been discontinued for quite some time.
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Yea good luck finding one.. you're in the back of a very long line
Other options are the Schmiedmann hood that Raikku has that is sweet! and possibly the Gradus Futura hood that is still in development.
do you have any links or pictures or where I can see?buy the above mentioned hoods?
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do you know how good the quality, fit and finish is of the Schmiedmann hoods?
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Do I hear crickets? :rofl: I'm going Schmiedmann, if I can get over the golf ball that I have to swallow called "shipping". :crying:Yea good luck finding one.. you're in the back of a very long line
Other options are the Schmiedmann hood that Raikku has that is sweet! and possibly the Gradus Futura hood that is still in development.
The weave is perfect,fit is very good.....
Also can not say anything negative about the quality..
I'll be going with a Scmiedmann hood eventually. Weave pattern isn't that important for me as I will paint it anyways. The fitment seems pretty good from photographs...definitely the best alternative to the out of production Vorsteiner hoods. Also the price is quite incredible, but if I recall shipping cost is more than the hood itself??
And I'm pretty sure the Gradus hood project has been scrapped....
And I'm pretty sure the Gradus hood project has been scrapped....
Don't think they're really my kind of thing, but I have some sort of alarm bells going off when you say painting it. I was on the verge of buying a GRP bonnet for my Coupe, a weight saving of plenty. A couple of owners said they were not as strong as the standard item, and at speed you could see it flex. This caused issues with paint, because it physically flexed, the paint would crack and it needed to be redone once every 12 months to keep it looking good.
Might this be an issue?
Might this be an issue?
Hi,
Dont know if this will help, Spanish lad name of Luis,
I belive he gets them from Japan.
I have attached link to his ebay shop.
Company actualy goes under the name of Bimartuning
Tuning Carbon Hoods items - Get great deals on Carbon Hoods, Carbon Rear Trunks items on eBay.co.uk Shops!
Hope it helps
Calmac
Dont know if this will help, Spanish lad name of Luis,
I belive he gets them from Japan.
I have attached link to his ebay shop.
Company actualy goes under the name of Bimartuning
Tuning Carbon Hoods items - Get great deals on Carbon Hoods, Carbon Rear Trunks items on eBay.co.uk Shops!
Hope it helps
Calmac
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Not so. Improvements being made.
So apparently there are a few in the wild (??)
I was going to pick up a beta version of his hood but was unable to follow through with the trip and the project!! FML
It's basically a Vorsteiner 2.0, I have some pics but I'm not sure if I can post them up - hopefully somebody else snagged this hood?
Well one of them would of been in my garage had I not been an idiot. I do know it was engineered a bit better than the Vorsteiner, we went over a lot of details about it. It's easy to say he has a very extensive background in the field that goes back quite a long way.
Edit: as for the hood I was going to receive, he had it waiting for me at a body shop in the SF Bay Area. Unfortunately for me I'm pretty sure somebody else got it by now.
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