So it was around 9:30 pm last night driving down to San Diego from Temecula

in the middle of nowhere...Phucking Dark, my hood pops open and smashes into my windshield and also damages the roof (just noticed that today)

im stranded like 40-50 miles away from home and i don't know what to do
i call my GF's brother (had to drive 30 minutes...A True Homie)
came with a rope to tie down the hood
Hood latch disconnected, hood is splitting in half, hood about to fall apart

i had to drive home 50 mph 40 minute drive or so

got home at 11:45pm

EDIT: radiator support had some lilttle damage so hood didnt close all the way....next time fix it earlier!!! my mistake


here are the pictures


The Windshield






We had to tie down the hood with rope my GF's bro gave me ( A true Homie )




The tape was used to keep the two splitted sides of the hood together ( it worked )


The rood got damaged









The money i was saving up for a Swap...now i have to fix this!!!

expletive YOU!!!!

 

ouch

 

that suck man
be safe next=hood pins

 

dam

 

 

last week i was suppose to get another CF hood with hood pin holes and i was going to purchase some hood pins

and yesturday morning i was going to a body shop buy to fix my damaged in the front so hood closed......
over slept....

next time i have to take care of everything ASAP

my mistake

 

dang, wat kind of hood? did it have latches?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by no2unenolife &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">dang, wat kind of hood? did it have latches?</TD></TR></TABLE>

what do you mean latches?

 

this happened to my grandma on the interstate in north carolina
first a tour bus rear ended her car. my uncle thought a piece of duct tape would keep the hood down since it was stuck shut (I wasn't there to witness any of it)
On her drive home on twisty NC highways, the hood flew up on her w/3 kids in the car including her old 70's something self.
Apparently she couldn't get off of the road all the way and after they were out of the car a lady clipped her rear 1/4 on top of that.

To top it off it began to rain and sure enough she slipped and fell into a puddle when trying to climb into the tow truck.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B16_madman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">this happened to my grandma on the interstate in north carolina
first a tour bus rear ended her car. my uncle thought a piece of duct tape would keep the hood down since it was stuck shut (I wasn't there to witness any of it)
On her drive home on twisty NC highways, the hood flew up on her w/3 kids in the car including her old 70's something self.
Apparently she couldn't get off of the road all the way and after they were out of the car a lady clipped her rear 1/4 on top of that.

To top it off it began to rain and sure enough she slipped and fell into a puddle when trying to climb into the tow truck.</TD></TR></TABLE>


Woah
thats a hella of a story
sorry to hear that

 

my lil bro was driving my car and the same thing happened....

but just imagine that but with a stock steel hood.. lol

 

Stock steel hood?
Holy expletive Hairy ***** man!
that must be some scary ****

 

Latches? We dont need no stinkin latches!

Sorry I had to say that.

Anyways that sucks dude, too bad I dont really know you, Im in RB I would have crusied right up and helped out. Good luck with the repair!

 

hood pins y0!@!!!

 

The same thing happened to a project EG when my brother had it, we called out insurance company and were upfront with them about what happened, we didnt pay a deductable and it was taken care of. Might be able to call the police and say a truck was infront of you and a big rock or something flew out of the back and hit the windshield and you were scared to you pulled over and didnt get the plate and they will cover it, thats how it works in KY, I have known some ppl to do it I know it is shady but I know it works.

 

been there done that... My hood flew up slammed up then slamed down then slammed back. Fucked ym roof but it got fixed. This was in my old hatch.

 

i guess it happens a lot
well ill see what happens after i fix it
sell it and buy an EK
or fix this up

 

that blows.

 

That sucks bro.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr.RHTuner &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">dam </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

I bet that scared you quite a bit.

Sorry it happened

 

hood pins &gt; you

 

Guess you needed hood pins....glad I got mine. Sucks it did that much damage though man but youre lucky you didnt crash.

 

damns that must suck

 

OEM hoods for you from now on I hope