Missile_Man
09-08-2005, 12:07 AM
Has anyone else had this problem?
I was sitting in a parking lot with my friend, I open up my hood to check my oil real quick. I am looking around comparing my friends car and my car. I go to my back hatch to get a pair of mechanics gloves, and i hear, metal bening, metal scraping against each other, and then a clunk on the hood falling or what was left of the hood strut between the hood and the body.
Basically, if I had gone to the back 20 seconds earlier I would have had a realllllly nast headache. So have a quick look at the hood support strut, make sure its still in good condition.
Oh yeah, what happened was this. The stut bent to about a 50* angle, slid through the bottom part of the bracket so that the hood couldve slamed on my head/fingers or whatever else.
I was sitting in a parking lot with my friend, I open up my hood to check my oil real quick. I am looking around comparing my friends car and my car. I go to my back hatch to get a pair of mechanics gloves, and i hear, metal bening, metal scraping against each other, and then a clunk on the hood falling or what was left of the hood strut between the hood and the body.
Basically, if I had gone to the back 20 seconds earlier I would have had a realllllly nast headache. So have a quick look at the hood support strut, make sure its still in good condition.
Oh yeah, what happened was this. The stut bent to about a 50* angle, slid through the bottom part of the bracket so that the hood couldve slamed on my head/fingers or whatever else.