AutoExe Carbon Fiber

[Eclipse]

I bought Wyosaints carbon fiber grill that she got from Streetunit.com, very expensive piece, lists for $417 on their site, sometimes on sale for $377...anyways

I would have thought this was a high quality piece, sturdy solid carbon fiber, right? WRONG, this piece is JUNK. It is a fiberglass mold with one thin layer of carbon fiber wrapped on the outside. How do I know? Well,.....

Installed the grill with the 2 top screws, and noticed that it needed some sort of way to mount on the bottom, so I went to buy 3M double sided tape to help hold it down, meantime, my wife drives my car to work.. She calls me saying, "Honey, you're gonna be pissed.." Let me say right now, I never let my wife drive my car, due to the previous issues I had with her curbing 2 of my wheels at once.. She told me that the new grill had basically folded and cracked in half!! Not to mention, it fucked up my bumper, put a big ass crease right where the grill mounts. She brought the car home, and I was sooo shocked at how much damage this grill did to my car, and how much damage the grill itself had. It was basically shattered into 3 pieces.

This reminds me of the guy who had the S2000 at the car show at MOL. He told us that pretty much EVERY piece of carbon fiber you see on cars in America is junk and not real carbon fiber.. TRUTH TOLD

Obviously, I would not recommend this part, or any of Autoexe's "carbon fiber" parts, unless you are doing purely for looks, and dont care about quality

[tbot]

thats shitty dude sorry to hear, but yeah I thought of the guy w/ the s2000 first thing as well...u should bitch to autoexe about it.

[bmwzoom]

Dang... I would definitely bitch to AutoExe for sure!! Sorry to hear that!

[chickenwafer]

Wow that sucks. JDM hype fo sho. I have been able to luck out with my carbon fiber and get good authentic pieces.

It's weird because I know AutoEXE makes some good stuff. Overpriced, tho.

[Eclipse]

Wow that sucks. JDM hype fo sho. I have been able to luck out with my carbon fiber and get good authentic pieces.

It's weird because I know AutoEXE makes some good stuff. Overpriced, tho.

ya, i sent an email, haha...doubt they will even understand it..

[chickenwafer]

Do you know where WyoSaint bought it? There should be some recourse for a part that didn't last long and did damage...at least a refund or a new part.

[AIM WO4]

This blows. Where can we get some qual parts? Anyone do body work?

[tbot]

the guy who works right next to my shop does body work...does a really good job too, but i dunno about carbon fiber...i know he does fiberglass.

And i really dunno about pricing for that kinda stuff, but paint and regular body work, he's hooked my and angie up, so I'm sure he'll hook up other CMZC members as well

[Eclipse]

ya, half the carbon fiber layer was dissected by me to have a closer look, its fubar'd

[tbot]

boo...yeah i asked chris next door to me and he said he can do carbon fiber, but it'd be expensive since he doesn't have the means to mass produce, but it can be done!!!

I know his other work is awesome, so i'd imagine this would be top notch as well.

His shop is Ride Innovations on 114th and Huron if anyone is interested in talking to him.

[wyosaint]

wow, shitty deal.

Do you know where WyoSaint bought it? There should be some recourse for a part that didn't last long and did damage...at least a refund or a new part.

I've had mine on a few months ago and no problems, I've even kick the car up to 150mph and no problems

sure there was no debre or anything that just hit the car?

sorry to hear that

[deepSpeedMS3]

any pics.....that sound terrible...

[Eclipse]

yep.. no pics of the bumper, I spent an hour or so today heating it and pressing it back out, and it looks OK

[wyosaint]

yep.. no pics of the bumper, I spent an hour or so today heating it and pressing it back out, and it looks OK

dayum

[Eclipse]

dayum

i know....f'n crazy