Hinge for CF decklid
 

Got a CF decklid from Remmele quite some time back, but no hinge to fit to body, what do you guys do? I have a cut out metal decklid frame from from a donor decklid, thought of grafting it to the CF decklid. Any other suggestions?

Hi

Does the new deck lid have provision for a hinge as in the stock looking frame?

I recently fitted hinges to a deck lid for my new car, luckily I bought new hinges years ago from a VW dealer, but you can use old hinges, they just need a bit of work to clean them up is all.

Steve

No hinge at all, just the decklid without the frame. May just use a quick release to remove decklid but I'm after the normal way of opening the lid.

I bought a glasfiber rear decklid secondhand. It allready had the inner frame from a normal metal decklid glassed in:

http://www.gerrelt.nl/polyester/acht...chterkant2.jpg

A guy that dealt a lot with glassfiber parts told me not to use the rear decklid spring anymore. The spring is to strong for the lighter rear decklid.

I hammered out the hinge pins, and replaced them with the hinge pins of a normal house door hinge. These were just a little bit smaller in diameter, so they would slide in quite nicely.

http://www.gerrelt.nl/polyester/acht..._scharnier.jpg

Now I can remove the rear decklid in seconds, and replace it without having to adjust the decklid again.

The result:

http://www.gerrelt.nl/polyester/acht...wart_klein.jpg

Maybe I will have it painted in the car's color someday...

Hi

Beetle dipsticks make good pins for the hinges.

Steve

I'm after what Gerralt has done but thought of cutting off from the outter part of the metal frame, just using the frame from the hinge area to other hinge area. I got the pins from CSP.

6mm or 1/4" R clips work well too ;)

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...2.jpg~original