Hood Blanket question....

[MotoXracer21]

Well I decided to take off my hood blanket to see if i was lucky enough to have an 03 with a painted underhood.....NOPE! Check out how they put masking tape in two random spots and PAINTED OVER THAT....so now if I remove the ugly ass tape there is absolutely NO paint underneath....:cuss: :fm: :mj:

Two questions:
1) What have you guys done with your hood blankets? I was thinking of spray painting it black (help with the water spot problem) and then painting the "cobra" in red...
2) Any way I could talk with ford about this being a "defect" and convincing them to paint it under warranty?

 

[04-MystiChrome]

Mine too-Bought a new blanket and hardware,
did the hood mod and done with it. Car never sees
water now.

 

[mmartin 6]

I was thinking of the same color scheme on my hood blanket. Let me know your technique. BTW - how'd you remove the blanket without breaking the fasteners ?

 

[MotoXracer21]

I just stuck my hand in between the blanket and the hood itself and pulled back, worked just fine...

 

[MystiChrome Coupe]

Don't feel left out, I have the tape & scribbles under my blanket also.

I got some hi-temp flat black spray paint at my local ace hardware store. Looks great * took care of the water spots.

Can't offer any help with trying to warranty if other than just asking them. Worse they could do is say no.

 

[MotoXracer21]

Have any pics??
Has anyone painted the cobra lettering?

 

[03yllwguy]

Same scenario here, tape and greese pencil writing... I painted my cobra letters with the color of my car... Yours may turn out a little better than mine since you have a darker and more forgiving color to be matched up with black, with the yellow you can see every little nook that I wasn't able to perfectly get into with a brush... If you don't like it you can alwasy spray over it again. I did the following:
1) Do the hood mod and spray paint the hole thing black (I put 3 coats), I used high temp paint but don't think it matters
2) I then let it dry and applied two coats of scotch guard incase it got wet which it hasn't.
3) I used a good quality angle brush and fabric paint from Joanne fabrics or Michaels has them.
4) I slowly hand painted the letters several coats till I was happy. It's impossible to not do it by hand I found.
Hope this helps, should look good on redfire...

 

[Neoclasiccl]

My paint under my hood isn't the greatest but i have no tape or writing.

 

[RossSVT]

No tape or writing here also.

 

[byevette]

Originally posted by MotoXracer21

2) Any way I could talk with ford about this being a "defect" and convincing them to paint it under warranty?

This should answer your question.

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99866

:beer:

 

[Jimmysidecarr]

One example of painted hood underside..... near the bottom of the page....
http://svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96833

 

[MotoXracer21]

Sweet, Im gonna have to call up my dealership an see what they say.... In all honesty, it SHOULD be a factory defect, those lazy bastards:bash:
thanks for the help guys:beer:

 

[byevette]

Originally posted by MotoXracer21
Sweet, Im gonna have to call up my dealership an see what they say.... In all honesty, it SHOULD be a factory defect, those lazy bastards:bash:
thanks for the help guys:beer:

Not a problem, good luck. If your dealer has a body shop, go there.

:beer: