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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 08:49 PM
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are they a good fitting panel? well made?
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 08:52 PM
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There obviously non gen panels so fit and quality are half of a genuine.

Id allways spend more ,get a better product to start with then the final job will be miles better

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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by turbomini
There obviously non gen panels so fit and quality are half of a genuine.

Id allways spend more ,get a better product to start with then the final job will be miles better

rick
You could follow what Rick says, or consider the facts.
A DYE to stamp a ford wing will be in the region of £100K, now ask how long it will take any company that would buy a die for this to recover their cost.
The answer is they won't, the supply of pattern panels is almost always done on EX Ford dyes, or whoever makes them for ford.
The dyes do not last indefinitely, the tolerances go out due to wear, the old dyes are sold to pattern people, as prohibitive cost to make for such low volume stuff.
Having had £2.5K of bodywork done, I have NO complaints whatsoever about hadrian wings etc, the only bit I didn't like was the bonnet, as the frame was not bonded to the outer and so flexes.
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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 12:43 PM
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I had hadrian wings fitted to a previous saph years ago after my car was the result of a hit and run incident, my mate and i fitted them with no bad issues at all (he is a ex panel beater/sprayer) once car was finished and painted it was mint all round
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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 01:39 PM
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If you can get original panels then get original panels imo years ago I bought a couple of pattern wings for my mk4 cortina 2.3 ghia (jeez thats a long time ago) and they were total shat, didn't fit properly at all


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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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Hadrian are as good as you'll get without going genuine IME
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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 03:24 PM
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always used hadrian panels on my fiestas and never had any probs with them always seem to fit well
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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 03:26 PM
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Iv used hadrian panels in the past with no serious fitting problems they sometimes need a slight tweak
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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 03:28 PM
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As said about as close as youll get to genuine! Bit of time spent on fitting them and no one would ever know
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