Alright, about to take my car down to LA in a few weeks and I was wondering (because I've seen so many threads on this)...why do the hoods on our CRX's/Civic's randomly fly up and destroy stuff?

Is there any way to tell that your hood is about to a-splode? Tell-tale signs?

Just wondering, because that sounds really scary. The whole "hood randomly flies open when you least expect it cruising down the I-5" sort of thing.

Thanks!

 

i have wondered this myself..

 

bump, no insight?

 

mine flew up because we thought the latch was fine but just driving down I 20 up it went.