are hood dampers supposed to be stiffer than hell when you first get them?

I bought a set and hand to put all my weight into getting them to copress, I did it about 25 times and it was still stiff as hell

is there some trick to getting them to soften up?

 

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um bump cause i wanna know too..

 

They are stiff as hell, when I buy them direct from NRG they tell me that

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by drive4aliving &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">They are stiff as hell, when I buy them direct from NRG they tell me that</TD></TR></TABLE>

how are you supposed to loosen them up? i dont feel like bending the **** out of my JDM front end hood trying to close it

 

ask member Modacar, he sells them

keep me posted because i want to order a set

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DxHatchback &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ask member Modacar, he sells them

keep me posted because i want to order a set </TD></TR></TABLE>

I bought them from modacar because they are located in town, and i returned them, and no one there knew why they were soo stiff

 

do you have carbonfiberhood?

cause you got 2 different ones ,one for the cf and one for a oem hood.
springloads are different

 

I have an OEM hood and I bought the shocks for the OEM hood

are the CF hood ones softer?

 

sorry I didnt reply, CF ones arent any softer

what u do is get 2 towels put one on the ground, put the shock on it and put another one on top and compress it with your body weight fully about 25 times... it'll still be stiff, but they work, I put them on my friends S2K with the stock LIGHT hood

 

i did it about 25 times with all my weight 140lbs and had my damn feet almost off the ground and they were still extremely stiff

 

I Weigh 270... so try doing it 25 more times. heh

 

its like that my tein hood dampers were like that, wen ur trying to push it, it seems like alot of force is needed to push it down but wen u put it on ur car its pretty soft

 

seems like too much work. products shouldn't require people to do stuff like that to make them work correctly

 

yea, even stock hatch shocks are like that... I just remembered. we took off my frens stock hatch shocks off his EK to put on a CF trunk... and the car had like 100k miles or something and those were pretty damn stiff

 

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haha.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by banzai msg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">seems like too much work. products shouldn't require people to do stuff like that to make them work correctly</TD></TR></TABLE>

yea, thats why i said expletive it and returned them