Is it like impossible to get a carbon fiber hood, i have been waiting for mine for 8 weeks plus. Anyone elses take this long????

 

mine took maybe a week...whod u get it from

 

From where? I ordered a ViS Fuzion hood, supposedly the company got one but it was chipped. How easily do these things damage. Where else can i order a hood from???

 

you can contect sibons. what i herd is that there is a carbon fiber shortage so orders are taking longer .

Caesar

 

Carbon fiber is in VERY short supply. Airbus recently started a new line of jumbo jet that uses a **** ton of it. If remember correctly, another company, possibly Boeing, has jumped on that band wagon as well. Then with everything going on in the middle east, the pentagon has bought up all the rest of it. I've talked with every major supplier in the US, it's all either sold or already spoken for. I even talked to some manufacturers in Hong Kong who said they were completely booked up as well. So who knows.

 

Theres definitely a carbon fiber shortage nowadays and its making it increasingly difficult to receive carbon parts quickly. I heard that Mitsubishi is actually having such a tough time that the EVO's spoilers are no longer being made in CF.

 

Wow thanks for the great information guys. I just hope to get one sometime before winter hits this god forsaken state :p. Thanks all

 

4 months for the VIS Fuzion hood and it arrived cracked.

Kind of strange that the prices are still so low if there is a shortage. I guess CF product makers aren't the smartest businessmen.

 

^Well for some people time is money and the fact that its taking upwards of 2 months to get CF products seems like we're getting screwed one way or another.

 

The problem is money wont get you the hood, any faster I tried that.

 

You always. . . . ALWAYS call and verify on-hand stock before ordering anything. Else you will wait. . . . especialy on a specialty item like carbon parts.

 

So i guess the next question is how hard is it to repair a chip in carbon fiber, is that even plausible. They have one that was supposed to come to me but it has a chip. Fixable or not for half price?

 

Are you going to leave it raw carbon. or paint it? If you are going to paint over it like I do, easy fix. However, if you are going after the show-ey raw carbon look, then that's beyond my expertise i'm afraid

Is the chip even noticable? Take a picture of it with a camera phone or something, and post. I know you may know it's there, but it may be so miniscule that no one else would unless they were looking for it. . .

 

The chip si prolly about the size of the quarter judging from the pics, the pics are on my dads laptop will post later. Right by one of the vents. So even if i do take the hood from the middleman retailer in this shape for a discount. How bad of a shipping company is BAX, like is the hood going to arrive in far worse shape than it originally started? Im guessing that is a chance i am just going to have to take eh?

 

^Dude just wait on a new hood, unless your getting it for an absolute steal. It's definitely not worth the hassle of repairing it and then possibily having to paint it. In the end it'll cost about the same as just getting a mint CF hood.

BTW- Repairing CF w/out paint is VERY difficult, I would say almost impossible to make it look as good as new.

 

Shortage? there is none! LOL! I have been doing this for 9 months and it has been a nightmare. I never know when its coming and never know how much they can actually give me. It has driven what is available's price through the roof. SO now not only do I have the labor time, but I also have been fighting the lack of cloth and material. Some of the jobs I have done have taken 5 times as long because of this very problem. Frankly I don't know how anyone is getting CF cloth. If you got it your lucky if don't then your like the rest of us fabricators, up a creek. Its straight BS but I do what I can and deal with it.

here is a formal explanation http://www.fibreglast.com/carbonfibershortage

 

Who is your supplier sonix7, im doing some research in to CF from an investment standpoint

Thanks

Rob

 

I waited 5 weeks for my CF seibon hood. Nothing cracked and the fitment is good.

Too bad I bought it with full intent on painting it

 

^ LoL. Then just sell it someone who really really wants CF now.