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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 12:05 PM
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Jim you seem to have a slight dislike of them? Any reason?
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by jarulez9
Jim you seem to have a slight dislike of them? Any reason?

They have been falsly selling their parts as mastergrade ever since they bought those old crappy molds from the original owner. Just because they purchased the molds doesn't make them Mastergrade parts, which the were labeling them as. I can't tell you how many complaints in the last 6 months of working with Mastergrade, we have got on the KCG parts. KCG won't stand behind thier parts, so the customer seek out "Mastergrade" for compensation, only to find out what they own is not Mastergrade and that they are stuck with what they got. KCG is a very sketchy company, they don't even make those parts, C-wings does.

Hell we sell roofs that were cut too short for cheaper then what you bought yours for, and atleast its vacuum bagged. But we label them as too short, not as a good roof cap.
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 01:17 PM
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Jim I wish I wouldve known this lol... Well I hope people read this then and can learn from my mistakes. How much are your short roofs going for?
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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by jarulez9
Jim I wish I wouldve known this lol... Well I hope people read this then and can learn from my mistakes. How much are your short roofs going for?
We sold all of them, but they were $330 shipped. It's pretty rare that we get some instock.

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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by jarulez9
After all this crap with different glues and tape I wish I would have just installed it using double sided tape.. wasnt sure it would be strong enough...

The corners are still up a tad and the hardened glue under the roof cover has made it super hard for them to bend anymore.

I might just rip it off this weekend and sand the roof and use double sided tape...

Good idea? Or should I leave the corners a fraction of an inch up?
I would be way carefull trying to peel it up! If it's even half *** stuck down it might want to crack or break bending it up
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 05:54 PM
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Thanks everyone for your help with the roof...

Driving my car home tonite on 408 my carbon fiber roof flew off and then was ran over and shattered into a million pieces! How sad is that! So now I have dried glue all over my roof.

I had it on there really good except the 1 corner was not flush yet... air must've got in...

Hopefully with my tax return I can just bite the bullet again... and have a professional install it.

Thought I'd vent. Sad ending to a thread lol.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 05:56 PM
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Damn........ I guess Eagle was right..
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jarulez9
Thanks everyone for your help with the roof...

Driving my car home tonite on 408 my carbon fiber roof flew off and then was ran over and shattered into a million pieces! How sad is that! So now I have dried glue all over my roof.

I had it on there really good except the 1 corner was not flush yet... air must've got in...

Hopefully with my tax return I can just bite the bullet again... and have a professional install it.

Thought I'd vent. Sad ending to a thread lol.

wow, glue must of not been that great. I've tried to pull mine off now after a few days of it being on and I can hardly get the corners up.

That sucks

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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by jarulez9
Thanks everyone for your help with the roof...

Driving my car home tonite on 408 my carbon fiber roof flew off and then was ran over and shattered into a million pieces! How sad is that! So now I have dried glue all over my roof.

I had it on there really good except the 1 corner was not flush yet... air must've got in...

Hopefully with my tax return I can just bite the bullet again... and have a professional install it.

Thought I'd vent. Sad ending to a thread lol.
Damn, that sucks bro. My double sided tape was fine, but the edges needed some work as i had to use super glue to glue it down. So far so good...
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 10:40 PM
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oh no!!! thats the worst man! I sorry to hear this. any law sutes?
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No... no one was behind me at the time... I pulled over as I was walking towards it and picked up a little piece... as I got closer I could see it cracked and then a car ran it over just as I was next to it... scared the sh*t out of me and then I was sad...

So to clear things up... If I decide to get a new one... proper install technique: 3m double sided tape to the edge and hold down with weight?
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 04:41 AM
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Originally Posted by jarulez9
No... no one was behind me at the time... I pulled over as I was walking towards it and picked up a little piece... as I got closer I could see it cracked and then a car ran it over just as I was next to it... scared the sh*t out of me and then I was sad...

So to clear things up... If I decide to get a new one... proper install technique: 3m double sided tape to the edge and hold down with weight?

Get Mastergrade this time, you'll be MUCH happier

Jim
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 05:02 AM
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Jim sent you a PM about some spoilers. PM if you can do anything for me on a spoiler and a new roof. Thanks!
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 06:22 AM
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Jim pm'ed you! Are you getting them?
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