Replacement hood advice - Rimmers exchange

[TR Tony]

A friend with a 7 DHC needs a new hood for her DHC.

She likes the sound of the Rimmers exchange unit with the whole new hood & recon frame assembly complete & ready to swap onto the car.

Before she parts with the cash, has anyone on here ever used one of these complete exchange units? Any problems or pitfalls? It is an expensive option but I guess you pay for the convenience?

Tony

<font size="1">1981 TR7 FHC Cavalry Blue
1980 TR7V8 DHC Jaguar Regency Red - sadly sold!
1977 TR8 FHC EFI Factory development car Inca Yellow</font id="size1">

[supercass]

Staggeringly expensive in my opinion. To be honest I don't think fitting a new hood to a TR7 frame is rocket science and I don't feel it warrants the high price they are asking. The sort of premium they are asking is the sort of price I would expect to pay for the fitting (only) to a far more complex mechanism such as a 90's BMW 3 series. supercass

[DNK]

Headslap!!!!!

I thought your were talking hood (bonnet)

Don
Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[troydeon]

DNK I was there with you also... oops

Troy
1980 TR7 DHC

[rgsSpider]

Me too, it's that 'Merican mentality!

Randy

1980 TR7 <font color="red">Spider!</font id="red">
http://rgstr7spider.tumblr.com/

[trickyx12000]

blinking colonials.

[john 215]

Hi Tony,

Does seam a little on the expensive side, guess is it Rimmer's !, if you dont fancy having ago yourself, they are not that hard to do just mark it out carefully then how about a local coach builder / trimmer. PVC hoods are better fitted on a hot day the material is eaiser to work with.

Our learned friend has a step by step guide -

http://www.jclay.me/jclay/New_Hood.html

Cheers John


LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!

1976 Speke FHC Beauty

1979 3.5 FHC(STATUS PENDING!!)

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6,ON THE ROAD NOW KICKING AR5E !!!!

[Odd]

Ha ha... Two peoples - divided by a common language... [8D]

[TR Tony]

Ah yes should have remembered that hood has a different meaning for our Stateside friends! Sorry about the confusion[:)]

John thanks for the link to Jclay's site, that is a wonderfully comprehensive set of instructions. I am not looking to do the job myself but like you say there is the option of using a local coach trimmer, which I am sure would be cheaper!

Anyway seems like no one has any direct experience of the Rimmers exchange item then.

Tony

<font size="1">1981 TR7 FHC Cavalry Blue
1980 TR7V8 DHC Jaguar Regency Red - sadly sold!
1977 TR8 FHC EFI Factory development car Inca Yellow</font id="size1">

[trickyx12000]

A trick i used when the hood....
thats the black bit over your head... not the coloured... or colored bit over your engine.. keeps popping off the studs when driving with the wind.....
when the car was layed up in the english winter. put a electric heater fan on the parcel shelve for half hour ... then reclipped the hood and held it on the studs with small clamps and left it.. come the spring end of problem, hood fits again.

before this as a side note .... i was also having probelms with the hood not fitting correctly. because when someone had fitted the anti-roll bling bar it was fitted too high. and pushed the hood up off the studs. lower the hood on its mounting brackets... the top wouldn't come down. ( the frame hit the roll bar).

inch and a half cut off the bottom of the bling bar and refitted it now the hood will drop with out hitting the hood frame.