Bright Chrome Hood Blanket Fasteners:

[Alex05SSR]

Everyone:

I wanted to post some information and photos on how I added a bright chrome touch to the 5 black plastic hood blanket fasteners for our trucks. I purchased a set of 15-1” dia. bright chrome plastic hood blanket fasteners for the C5/C6 Corvettes off of eBay, the seller’s name is “vetteman62”. The set of 15 fasteners costs $29.95 + $8.50 S&H, for a total of $38.45.

One might be able to use the bright chrome fasteners alone as they are, but being smaller in diameter than the black fasteners and with the recesses/indentations in the hood blanket being large, I wanted to fill that space up better. Thus, I bought a couple of packs of GM trim fasteners (3 per pack), which are a bit larger in diameter than the stock ones. I drilled out the plastic threaded post on each one of them. Then I inserted the bright chrome fasteners through the holes in the black ones. The black fasteners then became basically washers for the new fasteners.

I was originally contemplating on having a set of the black fasteners bright chrome plated, but I think this actually worked out better and cheaper, because you potentially can have 3 sets of 5 fasteners out of the deal.

Alex

[XSELER8]

Looks good. And good usage of the GM black fasteners.
The chrome hood blanket fasteners will compliment the chrome bolt caps in the engine bay.