Ricootje0311
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Hi guys,
I recently bought the Mishimoto snorkel kit for our JL and installed it. The snorkel looks of decent quality and came nicely packed. While it didn’t come with ANY instructions you can download these on their website but it’s weird you won’t include this with a product. The cutout template included was too small after measuring as per the instructions and I needed to reprint the cutout template with the correct scale.
The installation further went like a breeze and no issues further up until the little trim piece for the hood cut out.
Mishimoto uses a flexible thick rubber piece that you need to glue onto the hood. I bought some of the Sika black silicon, JB welt black silicon, Permatex black silicon and the result for all of them was the same, it would stick to the paint of the car around the cutout but not the slightest bit on the rubber trim piece.
I thought maybe I’m impatient and tried again and again even leaving the tape that I used to hold the trim piece in place for the silicon to cure over 24h on there, the result was the same, it would just simply fall off.
The rubber seems coated and resists bonding to anything.
I reached out several times to Mishimoto and all I was told is just use different glue. I’ve asked for their recommended glues and tried those with the same exact result.
I ended up buying black aluminium rivets and rivet the trim piece on but as you probably can imagine the rivets pull through the rubber and it just doesn’t look nice and clean at all. As the rivets pull the rubber off of the paint sealing was needed so resulting in nasty gap with silicone filling.
I have sent the pictures to Mishimoto and they were kind enough to reach out and talk with the sales team about a compensation of some kind as this is clearly not the intended way of installing. Having said that, they have left me hanging in there for over 2 weeks now with zero updates and zero compensation and zero solution .
Just wanted to leave this information here for anyone looking to install or buy a Mishimoto snorkel for their JL or JT as I think there’s better options out there for this price that look way cleaner once installed, and their support is just non existing.
I recently bought the Mishimoto snorkel kit for our JL and installed it. The snorkel looks of decent quality and came nicely packed. While it didn’t come with ANY instructions you can download these on their website but it’s weird you won’t include this with a product. The cutout template included was too small after measuring as per the instructions and I needed to reprint the cutout template with the correct scale.
The installation further went like a breeze and no issues further up until the little trim piece for the hood cut out.
Mishimoto uses a flexible thick rubber piece that you need to glue onto the hood. I bought some of the Sika black silicon, JB welt black silicon, Permatex black silicon and the result for all of them was the same, it would stick to the paint of the car around the cutout but not the slightest bit on the rubber trim piece.
I thought maybe I’m impatient and tried again and again even leaving the tape that I used to hold the trim piece in place for the silicon to cure over 24h on there, the result was the same, it would just simply fall off.
The rubber seems coated and resists bonding to anything.
I reached out several times to Mishimoto and all I was told is just use different glue. I’ve asked for their recommended glues and tried those with the same exact result.
I ended up buying black aluminium rivets and rivet the trim piece on but as you probably can imagine the rivets pull through the rubber and it just doesn’t look nice and clean at all. As the rivets pull the rubber off of the paint sealing was needed so resulting in nasty gap with silicone filling.
I have sent the pictures to Mishimoto and they were kind enough to reach out and talk with the sales team about a compensation of some kind as this is clearly not the intended way of installing. Having said that, they have left me hanging in there for over 2 weeks now with zero updates and zero compensation and zero solution .
Just wanted to leave this information here for anyone looking to install or buy a Mishimoto snorkel for their JL or JT as I think there’s better options out there for this price that look way cleaner once installed, and their support is just non existing.
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