"Cheezy look"? Your opinion appreciated
#1
"Cheezy look"? Your opinion appreciated
Hi all,
Well, traveling down the freeway, a huge truck threw up a rock on top of the hood of my car and dented it. Well, since the hood could use a new paint job anyway, because of stone chips, I thought that I would just have the dent fixed and the whole hood painted---until I found out that it would cost $450.00! So I looked and looked online and found these two fake "hood vents" in white that I could use to cover the dent. (They still need to be painted if I decide to use them). Thing is, the two hood vents only cost $4.00---versus the $450.00 for the paint job. Could any of you "live with these vents" if it was your car? Please see pics. And the vents just glue down and are not glued on the hood in the pics yet so they're not down, entirely flat on the hood. And, these vents were the smallest I could find online or anywhere. All others were like over a foot long which, to me, would be out of proportion. Feedback please. Thanks.
Well, traveling down the freeway, a huge truck threw up a rock on top of the hood of my car and dented it. Well, since the hood could use a new paint job anyway, because of stone chips, I thought that I would just have the dent fixed and the whole hood painted---until I found out that it would cost $450.00! So I looked and looked online and found these two fake "hood vents" in white that I could use to cover the dent. (They still need to be painted if I decide to use them). Thing is, the two hood vents only cost $4.00---versus the $450.00 for the paint job. Could any of you "live with these vents" if it was your car? Please see pics. And the vents just glue down and are not glued on the hood in the pics yet so they're not down, entirely flat on the hood. And, these vents were the smallest I could find online or anywhere. All others were like over a foot long which, to me, would be out of proportion. Feedback please. Thanks.
#4
But these two, inch long dents/scratches did remove the paint. I filled the scratch in as well as I could with paint but that looks pretty bad too. Those two vents look that bad??
#6
The only thing about having just the dents fixed is that the painters said that it is hard to paint just those spots on the hood without them showing. They say to paint the whole hood-----at $450. Ugg.
#7
the vents dont look so great. paintless dent removal is a real thing...check it out. is a bit pricey though.
my hood is getting chips also. i know it sucks looking at dents. but u kinda get use to em. kinda. trust me i know because my 09 got its first door ding last year...on the driver side rear door. i get to look at it almost every day. i have a couple more tiny ones ive accumulated (my fault) and plan to have them fixed the PDR method after i get a couple more, to make it worthwhile cost wise.
my hood is getting chips also. i know it sucks looking at dents. but u kinda get use to em. kinda. trust me i know because my 09 got its first door ding last year...on the driver side rear door. i get to look at it almost every day. i have a couple more tiny ones ive accumulated (my fault) and plan to have them fixed the PDR method after i get a couple more, to make it worthwhile cost wise.
#8
the vents dont look so great. paintless dent removal is a real thing...check it out. is a bit pricey though.
my hood is getting chips also. i know it sucks looking at dents. but u kinda get use to em. kinda. trust me i know because my 09 got its first door ding last year...on the driver side rear door. i get to look at it almost every day. i have a couple more tiny ones ive accumulated (my fault) and plan to have them fixed the PDR method after i get a couple more, to make it worthwhile cost wise.
my hood is getting chips also. i know it sucks looking at dents. but u kinda get use to em. kinda. trust me i know because my 09 got its first door ding last year...on the driver side rear door. i get to look at it almost every day. i have a couple more tiny ones ive accumulated (my fault) and plan to have them fixed the PDR method after i get a couple more, to make it worthwhile cost wise.
#9
I would apply as little touch up paint as I would need to cover the lost paint... then get a vinyl bandaid sticker that's just big enough to cover it and pop it on top.
Probably still screams ricer... but less than two fake vents, maybe?
Probably still screams ricer... but less than two fake vents, maybe?
#10
We'll look at that one too. Thanks for your suggestion.
#11
OK...I'm going to be the one that simply say's I don't think those vents look bad.
I could live with them, maybe even enjoy them. Your Fit would be unique.
I grew up in my family, with what I still think is a great looking vehicle. It was a 67 Mustang. It had "fake" hood vents, or ones that really weren't all that functional, and I always liked them.
So one single vote for ...sure..go with the vents.
I could live with them, maybe even enjoy them. Your Fit would be unique.
I grew up in my family, with what I still think is a great looking vehicle. It was a 67 Mustang. It had "fake" hood vents, or ones that really weren't all that functional, and I always liked them.
So one single vote for ...sure..go with the vents.
#12
OK...I'm going to be the one that simply say's I don't think those vents look bad.
I could live with them, maybe even enjoy them. Your Fit would be unique.
I grew up in my family, with what I still think is a great looking vehicle. It was a 67 Mustang. It had "fake" hood vents, or ones that really weren't all that functional, and I always liked them.
So one single vote for ...sure..go with the vents.
I could live with them, maybe even enjoy them. Your Fit would be unique.
I grew up in my family, with what I still think is a great looking vehicle. It was a 67 Mustang. It had "fake" hood vents, or ones that really weren't all that functional, and I always liked them.
So one single vote for ...sure..go with the vents.
Last edited by JerryHughes; 06-26-2019 at 08:02 PM. Reason: Additional info
#14
Thanks for your input. Anyone else with any ideas of how I'd hide the dent------"effectively"?
#17
In the spirit of roasting fake vents, and as we in the GK crowd are all guilty of fake vents since they come standard as part of the bumper facia, lol:
Don't forget the flame stickers and naked lady silhouettes, you could also get some spinner hubcaps to zip-tie onto your rims while your at it. Why stop there, I think autozone sells a chrome-pinstriping kit that you could line the doors with. Also, it'd be a miss if you didn't get safari window vents. Lastly, top it of with underglow. Not just any underglow, the strips from walmart and dont bother hiding the wires... Just run them straight under the doors from the foot wells and superglue the strips directly to the underbody plastic.
Don't forget the flame stickers and naked lady silhouettes, you could also get some spinner hubcaps to zip-tie onto your rims while your at it. Why stop there, I think autozone sells a chrome-pinstriping kit that you could line the doors with. Also, it'd be a miss if you didn't get safari window vents. Lastly, top it of with underglow. Not just any underglow, the strips from walmart and dont bother hiding the wires... Just run them straight under the doors from the foot wells and superglue the strips directly to the underbody plastic.
#18
In the spirit of roasting fake vents, and as we in the GK crowd are all guilty of fake vents since they come standard as part of the bumper facia, lol:
Don't forget the flame stickers and naked lady silhouettes, you could also get some spinner hubcaps to zip-tie onto your rims while your at it. Why stop there, I think autozone sells a chrome-pinstriping kit that you could line the doors with. Also, it'd be a miss if you didn't get safari window vents. Lastly, top it of with underglow. Not just any underglow, the strips from walmart and dont bother hiding the wires... Just run them straight under the doors from the foot wells and superglue the strips directly to the underbody plastic.
Don't forget the flame stickers and naked lady silhouettes, you could also get some spinner hubcaps to zip-tie onto your rims while your at it. Why stop there, I think autozone sells a chrome-pinstriping kit that you could line the doors with. Also, it'd be a miss if you didn't get safari window vents. Lastly, top it of with underglow. Not just any underglow, the strips from walmart and dont bother hiding the wires... Just run them straight under the doors from the foot wells and superglue the strips directly to the underbody plastic.
But when you look at a Fit Sport, with those running boards and the back plastic that's over the rear window, isn't that just one step this side of "overdone"???
Last edited by JerryHughes; 06-27-2019 at 11:17 AM. Reason: Additional info
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