R50/53 Hood recommendation
#1
Hood recommendation
Hey,
I just picked up an 04 R53 in really great shape apart from a baseball sized dent in the hood. The quote to fix it was 1000 with no guarantee that it won't rust. So I was looking to live with it until I can find a replacement hood. OEM is around 500. I was wondering if anyone had experience with aftermarket OE (i.e., NOT OEM) body parts, and id so, whether they were any good. Thanks.
I just picked up an 04 R53 in really great shape apart from a baseball sized dent in the hood. The quote to fix it was 1000 with no guarantee that it won't rust. So I was looking to live with it until I can find a replacement hood. OEM is around 500. I was wondering if anyone had experience with aftermarket OE (i.e., NOT OEM) body parts, and id so, whether they were any good. Thanks.
Last edited by Soz2; 04-24-2018 at 04:47 PM.
#2
Hey,
I just picked up an 04 R53 in really great shape apart from a baseball sized dent in the hood. The quote to fix it was 1000 with no guarantee that it won't rust. So I was looking to live with it until I can find a replacement hood. OEM is around 500. I was wondering if anyone had experience with OE body parts, and id so, whether they were any good. Thanks.
I just picked up an 04 R53 in really great shape apart from a baseball sized dent in the hood. The quote to fix it was 1000 with no guarantee that it won't rust. So I was looking to live with it until I can find a replacement hood. OEM is around 500. I was wondering if anyone had experience with OE body parts, and id so, whether they were any good. Thanks.
To be most cost effective $ and labor wise your best bet is to get one from wrecker and paint to match. With luck you might find one the same colour of your car.
#3
#4
The aftermarket ( Keystone) hood fits as good as oem at half of the price. I have one on my R53, of course I work for LKQ , so my cost was around 125.00 for the aftermarket hood.. Most of the salvage yard hoods are inventoried with the lights attached, which depending on light option can make them very pricy . The aftermarket hood + paint would be around the same price as an OE hood without paint.
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#5
I just went through trying to replace my stock hood with a steel replacement from Keystone via eBay. They freighted me 4 damaged hoods in a row. I finally told them to give me a refund and I found a hood at a yard about 2 hours away. The drive was well worth it after wasting literally months getting damaged hoods. The damage wasn't from freight either. They all had bad ping marks on them in various places that clearly occurred during manufacturing. To Keystone's credit they were super easy to deal with and gladly kept sending replacements. All they asked was for pictures of the bad hoods destroyed. I got to fold a bunch of new hoods in half. Great stress relief... lol. Maybe your luck is better than mine.
#6
I just went through trying to replace my stock hood with a steel replacement from Keystone via eBay. They freighted me 4 damaged hoods in a row. I finally told them to give me a refund and I found a hood at a yard about 2 hours away. The drive was well worth it after wasting literally months getting damaged hoods. The damage wasn't from freight either. They all had bad ping marks on them in various places that clearly occurred during manufacturing. To Keystone's credit they were super easy to deal with and gladly kept sending replacements. All they asked was for pictures of the bad hoods destroyed. I got to fold a bunch of new hoods in half. Great stress relief... lol. Maybe your luck is better than mine.
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