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Old 04-23-2013, 09:18 PM
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I have to say I agree with the posts suggesting filing a dispute with your credit card company. I think the photos themselves should be evidence enough to refuse full payment. It is not your fault they sent you a bad product. Why should you pay for their mistake? Tell them to send a prepaid shipping tag and give it back to them. If they refuse, let them fight it out with the credit card company.
Old 04-23-2013, 09:56 PM
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Did the seller state in writing that it would fit like (as good as) the original ?? if so I would dispute the charges with your CC company, if NO statement as far as alignment guarantee,
you will just have to take the loss $$ , sorry.
Old 04-23-2013, 10:12 PM
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I would be pissed too...good luck Pitt!!!
Old 04-23-2013, 10:17 PM
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WOW!!! Good luck, hope everything works out for you!
Old 04-23-2013, 11:19 PM
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Just gonna keep an eye on this because i just had mine shipped today

Old 04-23-2013, 11:24 PM
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Old 04-24-2013, 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by FloydSummerOf68
What a piece of ****.

Who sold that? I will be getting a vented hood this year (same style) and want to know who to avoid.
Me too, damn! Thats the only hood I've ever liked....
Old 04-24-2013, 09:19 AM
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I fell in love with this hood since the first day I saw it. I still want it. Can someone recommend a company that backs their product 100% to fit on my car. kinda funny I asked them if they would mind me sharing the picks so I could get help from the community and their response was nothing good would come from that. hmmm now after reading all the posts from everyone here I can see why it wouldn't be good for them. I will post the information of the seller that sold the hood that is pictured on my 2012 vett with a little over 2k miles on it.
Old 04-24-2013, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by KSP387
Me too, damn! Thats the only hood I've ever liked....
Same here.
Old 04-24-2013, 10:08 AM
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Sorry for your bad experinece, but a simple search on the forums would have given you all the information needed to stay away from this hood. The Hightech vented hood fits like crap and most of us know it. I thought about getting one myself, until the bodyshop told me they had to go through five hoods on another C6 just to get one that only needed three hours of trimming work. They told me they will not touch that hood again. The hood you bought is probably one of the worst hoods for the Corvette in terms of fittment. Since you already have it, you might as well chalk up the heavy dollars to get a bodyshop to TRY and get it to fit with some resemblence of the stock fit. Good luck with that.
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Originally Posted by SilverScorp
Sorry for your bad experinece, but a simple search on the forums would have given you all the information needed to stay away from this hood. The Hightech vented hood fits like crap and most of us know it. I thought about getting one myself, until the bodyshop told me they had to go through five hoods on another C6 just to get one that only needed three hours of trimming work. They told me they will not touch that hood again. The hood you bought is probably one of the worst hoods for the Corvette in terms of fittment. Since you already have it, you might as well chalk up the heavy dollars to get a bodyshop to TRY and get it to fit with some resemblence of the stock fit. Good luck with that.
No, it was sent back to the vendor. I don't trust that hood on my vett. I wish i would have known this earlier. But my issue is now with the vendors customer service. But, I believe in karma, and in the power of social media.

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Old 04-24-2013, 12:31 PM
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Does anyone make that hood correct? It is a good looking hood but that fit looked horrible. Seems like as popular as that hood is, someone would make a quality version thats fits correctly.
Old 04-24-2013, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by jr3
Does anyone make that hood correct? It is a good looking hood but that fit looked horrible. Seems like as popular as that hood is, someone would make a quality version thats fits correctly.
HiTech is the company that started that hood. MTI Racing also used to carries it.

BJK

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Old 04-24-2013, 12:48 PM
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I should point out that the HiTech hood looks similar to the one in this thread, but only 4 of the vents are active verses the 6 that are shown in this threads' photos.
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Old 04-24-2013, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Pittcorvette
I fell in love with this hood since the first day I saw it. I still want it. Can someone recommend a company that backs their product 100% to fit on my car. kinda funny I asked them if they would mind me sharing the picks so I could get help from the community and their response was nothing good would come from that. hmmm now after reading all the posts from everyone here I can see why it wouldn't be good for them. I will post the information of the seller that sold the hood that is pictured on my 2012 vett with a little over 2k miles on it.
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Originally Posted by 07MontRedcp


I should point out that the HiTech hood looks similar to the one in this thread, but only 4 of the vents are active verses the 6 that are shown in this threads' photos.
That hood looks good. The lines look straight. It also looks to be Carbon and not fiberglass.
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Old 04-24-2013, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Pittcorvette
I recently purchased a hood from a vendor (that I waited three weeks to get) and well let me just say that the hood I received was very interesting. Stand by for pictures and a follow up from their customer service. Id like to have input from the community.
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Old 04-24-2013, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by 07MontRedcp
I should point out that the HiTech hood looks similar to the one in this thread, but only 4 of the vents are active verses the 6 that are shown in this threads' photos.


Can we assume it's not a Hi Tech hood, but someone else attempt at a similar design?

I've seen some amazing body work done to alter/align/fit various body parts but that particular hood looks a little too far out of whack to make it worth the effort.

Here's a couple pics of Hi Tech hoods that have been posted on the Forum.
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