{"id":1081,"date":"2009-08-08T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T11:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2009-08-08T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T11:50:52","slug":"new-bonnet-hinges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"New bonnet Hinges."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was gettign worried, these items were sent over 2 weeks ago and i hadnt heard hide nor hair of them. Untill Thursday (6\/8\/09) when i called the post office (all my packages get left\u00a0there\u00a0regardless\u00a0whether\u00a0I&#8217;m home or not), Luckily their was a package sitting there since the 24th, i just had apparently not gotten a little slip telling me to pick it up (not sure why they\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0give it to me as i have picked up about 6 other packages in that time).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway to the good bits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2_hinges_scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1084  aligncenter\" title=\"2_hinges_scaled\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2_hinges_scaled-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"2_hinges_scaled\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2_hinges_scaled-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2_hinges_scaled.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are the hinges made by AVD member\u00a0<span class=\"mediumtxt\"><strong><span>RBS79, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">from the first time i saw them i knew i wanted some. $150 is a bargain for hand crafted gold like these (he has a few for sale check\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.aussieveedubbers.com\/viewtopic.php?tid=78027\">http:\/\/forums.aussieveedubbers.com\/viewtopic.php?tid=78027<\/a>). I\u00a0haven&#8217;t\u00a0got round to putting them onto the car (but i may tomorrow if i get a free minute) but here are a few pics of the un-boxing to tie you over.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1082    aligncenter\" title=\"img_4612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4612-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"img_4612\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4612-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beautifully packaged, and presented, RBS79 took the time to bag all the nuts needed and wire tie it all together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1083  aligncenter\" title=\"img_4613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4613-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"img_4613\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4613-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/img_4613.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the hinge (strut?) straight out of the packaging. \ud83d\ude00 i cant get over the work that really has gone into this. All i can say is Shiney Shiney, and not a sharp barb in site. I cant say enough about the quality of these items. When i get round to putting these on (hopefully tomorrow) i will do a step by step pic tutorial, to show you how easy (or not) it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was gettign worried, these items were sent over 2 weeks ago and i hadnt heard hide nor hair of them. Untill Thursday (6\/8\/09) when i called the post office (all my packages get left\u00a0there\u00a0regardless\u00a0whether\u00a0I&#8217;m home or not), Luckily their was a package sitting there since the 24th, i just had apparently not gotten a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}