Saint AAI

Wheres the best place to buy carbon bits for a '99 Impreza? I've found a few with greatly varying prices, so is it a case of buy cheap, get poor quality or are they all the same?

fatmanscooby

I think you got it in one there. You normally get what you pay for.

scooby-si

what are you after m8??

DJ73

looking on here NOBODY want's to pay for quality ? they want cheaper price's then they'll moan if it's not top quality , double edge sword , even group buy's you'll only save pennie's

M0NEY

Depends what you want - ive found a supplier and trying to get some bits made up. Should be cheapish and good quality.

Larger items he not so cheap on!

Andy.F

Front and rear bumpers ?

Saint AAI

After anything really, probably bonnet first as mine is very heavy. Only want quality stuff though, i've seen some cheap bonnets before and the weave looks crap and dull.

M0NEY

Andy F - thats not a problem. Email me to remind me!

Saint AAI - thats easy to. All depends how much you want to spend though. I have had 4 carbon bonnets now. 2 cr@p, 1 really good, 1 pretty good. Ive got another carbon bonnet im trying to.

Ive also found a carbon supplier who makes proper pre preg stuff so no wet lay, but its expensive. For instance, he quoted me on a bonnet for a proper lightweight pre preg bonnet and its a shocking price! But, then he sent me samples and oh my god, the quality is different that wet lay! lol.

At end of day - Wet lay gives that carbon look but is about as heavy as normal stuff. But is cheap.

"Dry" carbon is the daddy carbon but expensive

Why cant we have a middle! lol

fatmanscooby

Which bonnet was mine then Frank?

SlowBoy

iTrader: (1)

M0NEY

FMS- yours was Seibon mate - really good. Was pretty impressed with it

You could be up for tough competition though as this new bonnet sounds good

DJ73

another carbon bonnet to hit the market place there's going to be more bonnet's than customer's shortly

fatmanscooby

There are some pants bonnets out there i know ive seen them. Cant be a bad thing to have some quality ones around though.

SwishOvBolton

who actually does the cheapest bonnets out of reference and who does the dearest

DJ73

it also depend's on the "quality one's" price won't it , if there are pant's bonnet's about and the quality is crap they won't sell will they ,
who done the group buy a few month's back that took month's to do ,......finally"
the quality was surposed to be the best going blah blah from the state's

M0NEY

I did a group buy on carbon bonnets about a year ago and they were from the States and the quality was supposed to be good. At the times carbon bonnets were going for £500 upwards and we got the SAME carbon bonnet for £380 delivered! lol

Seibon came along and offered their bonnets which are pretty good.

And soon another company are doing carbon which are to be pretty good ones.

At the time of the group buy, the bonnets i sorted were the best on the market for the price (only better ones were the pre-preg costing over £800)!

But now, you can name about 7 carbon suppliers easily - they have all jumped on the market as its easy to make money! But out of the 7, only really 2-3 good ones.

You can pick up a carbon bonnet from £250 if not lower now - but im not saying the quality is good. But then again, your not paying alot arent you.

I paid £550 for my pre-preg carbon bonnet and that was at discount. Stupidly light, but quality aint that good. Pre-preg isnt that great quality as they prefer the racing/save weight look. Where as 99% of the carbon stuff out there, is wet lay so looks good, but saves no weight!

scoobychimp

You can pick up a carbon bonnet from £250 if not lower now - but im not saying the quality is good. But then again, your not paying alot arent you.

could you give me an idea of company/sites i can find carbon bonnets on for less than #250 pls mate?

thanks
dan

SwishOvBolton

i want a decent lookin carbon bonnet to be honest not really bothered one bit about the weights apsect of it all , i like the look of them on the scoob i think it makes them stand out from the crowd

same as what dan says , id like a few companies that are cheap if anyone knows any ,

fatmanscooby

Hmmm be careful lads remember a lot of Companies wont take these back once sent. Do you really want something that looks cheap on your car especially something of that size. There are some REAL disapointments out there.

DJ73

have a look in "group buy's" there's another G/B for carbon bonnet's

chrome

gor for pre preg and THEN paint it

That's the real deal
(if only I could afford to do it!)

DJ73

why paint it ???????

chrome

Stealth

SwishOvBolton

im not into the stealth look , if id sold me bollock for some carbon id make sure when i look out that window it was carbon ,

chrome

I was thinking in terms of going carbon for performance, not 'bling'

I dont see the point of wet lay at all myself

SwishOvBolton

but then spraying it up would add weight

DJ73

if you want performance throw the basic sh1te out first, can't see by fitting c/f bonnet but leaving rear seat's , carpet etc in is going to save you much ????