Hood Alignment Problem
11-11-2010, 12:41 PM
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Hood Alignment Problem
Whats up guys, I was looking at my brothers 03 Si the other day and realized that the hood doesnt line up like it used to. The car has never had any front end impacts or anything like that. Anyone have any clues as to where to start trying to fix it?
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11-11-2010, 01:27 PM
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11-11-2010, 05:52 PM
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Re: Hood Alignment Problem
i've tired to lower the rubber things that didnt work, i dont think hes ever had a bad scrape, He thinks it happened after all the blizzards last winter.
emg. are you talkin about the hood latch?
emg. are you talkin about the hood latch?
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11-12-2010, 05:24 PM
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Re: Hood Alignment Problem
Check the latch, check the radiator support, check that the hood hasn't slid forward on the hinge bolts, check to see if the bumper actually moved and the hood is fine.
It may be possible that it got warped under the weight of a lot of snow though.. Unlikely, but possible.
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11-12-2010, 05:48 PM
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11-12-2010, 06:27 PM
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Re: Hood Alignment Problem
Cold enough to snow isn't very cold... just saying. My car, for example, doesn't turn into a pretzel when it's minus 20 in the winter here. Neither does any other car I've ever seen here, and this is nowhere close to the coldest place in the country or the world. So somehow I don't see a Virginia winter doing anything harmful, blizzard or not.
I'm just curious about where you would come up with an idea about sheet metal permanently deforming because of minor winter temperatures.
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11-13-2010, 07:06 AM
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Re: Hood Alignment Problem
No. It doesn't even get very cold there. If it actually was a problem, it would occur in places that actually got cold (or hot, etc), and you would have heard about it by now because the car is 8 model years old.
Check the latch, check the radiator support, check that the hood hasn't slid forward on the hinge bolts, check to see if the bumper actually moved and the hood is fine.
It may be possible that it got warped under the weight of a lot of snow though.. Unlikely, but possible.
Check the latch, check the radiator support, check that the hood hasn't slid forward on the hinge bolts, check to see if the bumper actually moved and the hood is fine.
It may be possible that it got warped under the weight of a lot of snow though.. Unlikely, but possible.