Hey everyone,
I searched and found a couple of threads on this subject but with contradictions of opinion. So I'm torn...I have a carbon hood and trunk on the car currently and winter is approaching. I live in Toronto, Canada and our winters get pretty hagred. Should i swap back to my factory hood/trunk for the winter? Both the hood and trunk are OEM replacement. I'm worried that constantly swapping for the seasons might be bad for the carbon hood and trunk in terms of the mounting areas. All opinions welcome. Thanks in advance everyone.

if you have the stock hood and trunk lid, why not switch? you spent hundreds of dollars on those parts, protect them.

as far as the mounting points go, it'll be fine swapping it on and off a few times.

yeah, you can get another latch off a donor hood, and leave that part attached, and really you could pick up a second set of hinges too.....then you wont even have to worry about aligning them in the spring.

^ thats a good idea, i live in Calgary, and a buddy has a carbon hood on his civic and decided to try leaving it on last winter, now it has almost no shine left to and has a crack from pulling out the plug for the block heater and closing the hood on it in the winter, its a good idea to swap imo

honest to god, put the stock parts back on.

you will not regret it.



In the end, we're all just chalk lines on the concrete.. drawn only to be washed away.

John Benham wrote:yeah, you can get another latch off a donor hood, and leave that part attached, and really you could pick up a second set of hinges too.....then you wont even have to worry about aligning them in the spring.

its really ideal to keep the hinges on the car not the hood. makes alignment much easier

hmmm, i suppose that also makes sence.

well at least get an extra striker.

AWD GS wrote:

John Benham wrote:yeah, you can get another latch off a donor hood, and leave that part attached, and really you could pick up a second set of hinges too.....then you wont even have to worry about aligning them in the spring.

its really ideal to keep the hinges on the car not the hood. makes alignment much easier

if you leave the hinges on the hood, it will be just as easy to align as leaving them on the car. if you take the hinges completely off both the car and the hood (like i used to do) it makes things a bit trickier... but it's still not that hard to align, even by yourself.