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Old 11-22-2020, 02:55 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Sniepster View Post
The hood IS the original one on the car, VIN stickers underneath it are not common practice on EU models. I've checked with a friend who has a BRZ and the underside of his hood looks exactly like mine. The most probable thing that's happened is the hood got dinged up and the body shop smoothed the whole thing out.
The hood is aluminum, would not take filling well and be far more labour intensive and costly than just replacing it if it was that bad.
On the other hand I have no more viable reason since this whole situation baffles me!
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