Jay Cartay

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This is possibly a stupid question, but when people fit lightweight bonnets with aerocatches, do they remove the OEM bonnet latch? I haven't owned one myself, but when I closed a fibreglass bonnet on a car I viewed once it seemed to be a bit cracked at the front, presumably from the pressure of properly closing the bonnet with the latch. It takes quite an effort with a bonnet that weighs next to nothing.

As it's something I'd like to do in the future, I thought I'd find out

Also, do bonnet scoops not tear out of these bonnets? Wouldn't have expected them to be that strong really.

Don Clark

Mine still uses the original bonnet catch/latch as well as the aerocatches.

The Seibon "OEM style" bonnet came with a catch to match the OEM latch.
However it needed the latch mechanism lowered to suit.

Jay Cartay

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Do you not find that it takes a real effort to push it down and close it Don, due to it having very little weight?

Don Clark

Nope, but I have fitted the SpecC bonnet gas struts (for aluminium bonnet).

bustaMOVEs

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I don't use mine, just catches, removed to save weight lol