Big tease.

[reelizmpro]

Looks much cleaner with the stock painted hood BUT on lachsilber the CF hood looks fine as well as it adds a nice contrast and the weave someone blends with it. Of course, the hood is also lighter which is always a plus. Fitment is OK with a lot of adjustment and hood seals. My OEM hood is imperfect which led me to get the CF hood and I got it for just about nothing = ]. I think the hood only looks good on two colors, Lachsilber and black.

[erik325i]

Why did you change your hood? Was it because of the fitment, or did you just want a painted hood? If you just wanted your hood to match, you should have just painted the VIS hood. You would have had the lightness of the carbon hood, without the riceyness. But if you changed it because of the fitment, never mind everything I just said.
With either hood, I prefer it painted.

[Jordan]

You cannot paint a VIS hood. The fitment is livable with hood seals, but barely.

If it was painted it would look like complete shit.

I always wanted the hood painted, when I bought it I was hoping I could fit it better then anyone else had (and I did) but it still was no where near good enough to paint.

[erik325i]

You cannot paint a VIS hood.

Why can't you paint a VIS hood? Is it because of the finish put onto the carbon fiber? Is it just the VIS hood, or can you not paint any carbon fiber hood?
Does anybody make a fiberglass hood? Would those have the same fitment problems as carbon?

[SebSter]

he means that if you paint it it would be way too noticeable that the fit isnt right, and would look very poor compared to a stock painted hood

leaving it carbonfibre is the only way to have it because then the poor fitment is excused by the fact that you can see its cf

[DarkWing6]

You cannot paint it because the fitment is so bad. Having it unpainted it is harder to notice, but if you were to paint one it would be very noticable and ugly.