The hardest part of the install, is the removal of the glass. If you do it yourself, just make 1000% sure you have put enough tape on the body, so that the wire doesn't catch the body at all.

After that the install is fairly straight forward, as long as you put enough urethane adhesive on!!!

 

I pick up my 2011 in 2 weeks and this will likely be my first mod...one question I'm curious about; does adding the flush mount louvre cause any whistling or loud road noise at normal or highway speeds?

 

nope....youll experience nothing but oober coolness & thumbs up!

 

Thanks Barricade - what he said

Because they are flush to the body and out of the windstream there is no additional wind noise from them. The *only* time we have heard extra noise is in sideways rain - which we get in Florida... since Lexan has a different density than glass (even though it's stronger) it has more of a "tinny" sound when hit by rain, rather than the dampened sound you hear when rain hits glass. It's not a lot, but it is a difference. Again though, you only have to worry about it when it's raining sideways

 

Uh, oh, you don't work on Pave Hawks, do you? I'm a bit nervous, ha ha.

 

Mine are in and they look GREAT will have pics in the next week! I was asked not to wash for 3 days.

I want to thank the guys at Silver Horse Racing. FANTASTIC just begins to cover the customer service and concern I got from them!!! They talked with my installer, they talked with me, If I was Catholic they would likely have talked with my priest.

Ultimately an interior guy took the interior apart and Rick's Auto Glass did the install. Really sexy. Not quite Scarlett Johansen sexy, but still sexy as hell.

 

Haven't touched a Pave Hawk except to change the yaw boost servo on a transit aircraft that passed through. Jezz, that thing has more stuff to move out the way to get some work done. If I had to do a phase inspection I'd take vacation and hope is was done by the time I got back. Mostly I work on A's and L's lift and med, and every now and then a HH.

Please forgive the off topic.

 

Just got a quote from MRT for these, $660 installed and painted.

 

Oh snap...it was like $70 to install mine at a glass place.

 

Yeah, I think I will just hold off until spring and figure out if they're what I want to do.

 

Sounds like they don't want to do them. That is way too much $.

 

It was 4 hours of labor for the job.

 

i got a quote for $150 from a body shop to install

 

install is not that difficult, painting is extremely difficult...I got one of the first sets out, painted them myself, put them in that weekend- turned out ok, but I had literally 5 hours masking/painting...

I did not follow directions, didnt use adhesion promoter, 6 months later both popped loose...and then I messed them up...ended up just buying prepaints, putting back in with adhesion promoter, years later they still look great! Marcello really hit the nail on the head with this design- they look like they always should have been part of the car

seriously- painting these are a royal pain- SHR's done enough sets they know the best way by now for sure to do the best job possible- just get the prepaints.

 

Yup wheres the Like button here anyways ?

 

 

Actually, we do installs here as well, and so we can provide a data point for installation costs:

2005-09
159.99 Louvers
175.00 Paint
150.00 Install
16.99 Urethane
16.99 Adhesion Promoter
_______
518.97 Total+tax

For 2010+ Cars
169.99 Louvers
175.00 Paint
250.00 Install (urethane / promoter included)
______
594.99 Total+tax

So if MRT wanted 660 total, they aren't far off the mark. The job on 2010+ cars when you're "on your game" is 2.5 hours, but I'd budget 3.5 just to be safe. And if anything goes wrong on the install, it quickly becomes an all-day affair, wiping out any chance of making money at the job...

 

Oh. Got me a little worried with this last comment. I figured there would be little or no difference between 2005-09 and 2010+.

Proud new owner of a 2011. Ordered a set of the pre-painted SGM louvers from you late last night.

If there is a risk of this turning into an all-day affair for you guys what happens if one of us weekend wrench turners attempts it and something goes wrong.

 

I downloaded the instructions and understand what the differences are. So it's the 2010+ models only that require cutting the interior panels? If we cut them exactly like the measurements you show in your directions do the panels sit flush against the louvers or are there gaps along the way?

 

First off this is a GREAT product and you won't regret getting them.

Second, coming from a guy who only changes oil and spark plugs and simple stuff like that, you CAN install these yourself. It may be a little overwhelming and stressful thinking about it, but you can absolutely do these yourself.

Ok, now I have a question for those who have it on the 2010+ Do you have any pics of the cut interior pieces? I'm sure its easy and looks great, I'm just never good at cutting things like that, also if you could show a pic of the tool you used.

I had these on my 2008, and then a few weeks a ago, a drunk driver nailed me and totaled my car. Tried to get them out, to sell them, but we couldn't find the removal tool and my brother ended up cracking the one

So I'm not sure when I'll have the money, but these are definitely going on my 2011 V6 MCA Package car that I'm picking up this weekend. Here are some pics.

Before


After



Also would like to note that these louvers are strong, even through the crash Great Product!