Hood pad?
JK Junkie
Joined: Nov 2013
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From: The Dirty South
They are also not all the same pattern. My Jeep came without one. Replaced hood with another one after hail damaged it. It had one. That one got pretty torn up by my clumsiness putting the hood up (the holding rod can get into the fabric and tear it). A friend had an undamaged one that he gave me. When I put it on, the holes for various parts were in different places. Go figure. It eventually got torn up and, since my Jeep didn't have one brand new, I just took it off and tossed it. More hassle than it's worth. I have noticed that the new ones look a little bit better constructed: The fabric is a tighter weave so that grazing it with the hood support rod may not gouge into the fabric. And the hood hail damage? Yeah, it happened again twice more, one of which I had it paintless repaired. But after the last one I decided to just leave it be. The first two times it happened in my driveway. The third time it happened running from an F5 tornado ...
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Had to stop and take a picture though, huh?
JK Freak
Joined: Oct 2014
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I know that before it was base sports didn't have them and Sahara and Rubis did. Almost all my friends that added 10a hoods don't run them(me included) don't think it changes anything. Maybe the hood may feel a little more of the engine heat?
