There are just too many bugs flying around, so after driving in the road, kill hundreds of bugs with hood, and there are lots color on the hood. A decision has been made, which is get the hood protector, so the hood won’t get scratch and kill bugs.
The Toyota Hood Protector made by Toyota guarantees the fit, and cost about $ 150 from dealers directly. Which there are other manufacture like LUND offers form fit, and they are directly exactly fit the hood, but they requires drill to the hood, which most owners afraid of, and will have permanently damage on the hood. The Toyota hood protector comes with giant boxes, and holds items pretty well, there are a manual, bags of parts, hood protector covered by thin white foam, and a bag. The manual explained the hood protector for Access cab is also use for Sequoia. The entire procedure of installing the hood takes about ten to fifteen minutes. There is a lot missing on the explaining which screw and parts is to what, but once actually started, everything went well. The unit is very sturdy and won’t have any problem in 100 miles per hour speed, but do need to afraid on some automatic car wash place that will destroy the hood.
It pops out a little, and from the center of drivers window, there is only a little will be seen, and most will be under the hood.
This is the hood protector is formed like the shape of the hood, but Smokey plastic and strong. There are 2 types of clips included; first type of clips, which clips near the center of the hood, the second type of clips, which clips near the end of hood. The center hood have two clips, which have a thick foam thing between clip and hood to protect hood, near the center is the two clips that snap to the Toyota grill and no drill is needed, right side of the u shape hook to hold shield on. There is another one on the left side, they are all the way to the ends of the hood, holding by none drilling screws, and there is plastic sheet to protect the paint.
Excellent:
No drill
Direct fit
Protect hood
easy installation
strong enough in the high speed
good color for black truck
function as advertised
exact fit
Not so Excellent:
Expensive
seems weak
can break if hit large rock
need to retorque after few thousand mile
get dirty easy
could be more close to the hood
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