got car back from shop!! cowl fixed!! pics!!

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Pietrasz4

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my hood flew up on me doing about 30mph and did some good damage to the cowl...they did upward pulls as well as straightening the radiator support. heres some pics of the damage and some pics of the fix...

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Looks great, they did a good job on it

 

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looks good cant even tell

 

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Nice, still no hood pins though?

 

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first of all the car looks perfect, the shop did a great job, that's a hard area to fix... i've heard of some people even totalling out cars from severe cowl damage


i'm going to be putting on a 3" H.O. fibertrends cowl on my car in the next few weeks... what are some options for making sure this NEVER happens to my car haha... i know hood pins are the obvious choice but i've seen some locking ones on muscle cars at shows that i can't find on any site... any ideas?

 

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How much did it cost?

We have little to nothing in this one except for a few hours of our time working on it.
http://forums.stangnet.com/760711-cowl-removal-progress-thread.html

The car is currently under going full bodywork in preparation for a nice coat of Oxford White.

 

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hood pins FTW.

 

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neg... hood pins AND factory latch ftw

 

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looks good....I know this sounds like an absolutely retarded question but how do you get the wiper off?lol I'm an idiot.

 

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Well to fix the cowl panel it cost me $670 for everything, and $150 to pull out the radiator support.

lol there are little tabs on the wipers that you lift up and you can adjust the wipers/take them off

 

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riceslayer302 said:

neg... hood pins AND factory latch ftw

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agreed.

 

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woodyy24 said:

agreed.

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good call


wow man you got a good deal, i did that to my first fox they wanted something like 2 grand.

 

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Pietrasz4 said:

Well to fix the cowl panel it cost me $670 for everything, and $150 to pull out the radiator support.

lol there are little tabs on the wipers that you lift up and you can adjust the wipers/take them off

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I'm just a big dumbass so just disregard it. But again, they did a great job
Edit: I meant the arms, not the actual blade itself.

 

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Pietrasz4

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That is for the wiper arm. At the base of it where the circle motor for the arms are (you can see in the pics) there will be a little tab on the base of the arm just pull it up and you can remove the whole arm.
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Just use a small cable to hold the hood down...works good