Gas Hood Lifters Fitted, Ebay - Sokie Tech Options

[petna]

Well the gas bonnet lifters went in this afternoon. Took about 20 mins because I needed to fiddle with a washer or 2 to get the fit right. I've created a wiki guide on CCUK for the fitting Wiki Entry

They seem to work well. Worth £40 IMO

Here are some pics

Bracket with washer piping


Bracket


Fitted



In place with the bonnet 'popped'


This post has been edited by petna: Oct 24, 2008 - 11:39 AM

[petna]

Mine arrived in about a week so may be worth dropping them an email. They sent me an email when they were shipped and another saying that they should have arrived by now. Indeed they had arrived. Drop them an email

[BloodyStupidDave...]

Mine arrived in about a week so may be worth dropping them an email. They sent me an email when they were shipped and another saying that they should have arrived by now. Indeed they had arrived. Drop them an email

Actually, if you have an email address for them, please could you PM it to me. I've contacted them through eBay but it has been less than 24 hours so they might yet respond. Initially I thought I was just being impatient and put it down to slow shipping (they are in Taiwan - shipments often take upto 10 days from there to the UK).

This post has been edited by BloodyStupidDavey: Oct 24, 2008 - 5:03 PM

[BloodyStupidDave...]

Finally got a tracking number for them and it turns out that Parcelforce attempted to deliver my parcel on Thursday when I was out so dropped it off at my local post office for collection, but failed to put a postcard through my letterbox so I knew nothing about it!

Collected it from the post office this morning and fitted it right away and I can say it looks the dogs doodahs. Best of all, it looks OEM.

If you have a facelift 6th gen there is no need to permanently remove the middle hood rubber, just remove it and give it a light tap with a hammer to break the paint seal between the bracket and bolt. Then replace the bolt with the one supplied in the kit (plus the small washer). I found that the damper bracket for the hood wasn't a perfect fit for our hood bracket so I used the large washer between the hood bracket and the damper bracket, leaving the locking washer unused. Don't overtorque the nuts holding the hood on or you'll likely break something. If you are fearful, then a dab of threadlock will help keep the nut in place.

You can just about get away with this kit for the aluminium gt4 hood, just be gentle when opening and closing. For those of you with CF hoods, I'd suggest asking the supplier whether they could do an identical kit just with weaker lifters. A search for forum threads about weight loss will reveal the differing weights of the c-one, varis, aluminium and steel hoods.

It would have been nice if they included an extra clip - I almost lost one of mine to the engine bay during fitting (they are quite small and fiddly). If you don't have a black car you might want to consider spraying the brackets. Overall a very easy mod to do (difficulty level 1/10, time less than 20 mins). Overall the quality of the kit seems to be high.

This post has been edited by BloodyStupidDavey: Oct 25, 2008 - 9:26 AM