i bought a hood for my hatch and it wont seem to fit snug? any suggestions?

this happen to anyone too?

i tried to mess with the bolts on each side of the hood and it made no difference, i even readjusted the latch so it can be lower, and STILL no difference!






thanks


Modified by EK4MAY at 12:39 PM 4/4/2008

 

adjust the hood latch to be lower as well as the rubber bumbers to sit lower on each front corner.

 

i adjusted the rubber bumpers & lowered the latch as low as it can go.

 

Mine does the same damn thing.

Is it the original OEM hood? Pretty sure the previous owner replaced the hood at some point and didn't go OEM on mine, so the front fits like ***.

 

seems to be a common problem. my ej8 did it a little bit to, all oem parts never wrecked.

 

well looks like its time for a nice CF hood that will fit well. i dunno EKs all that well i know EGs but thats all the suggestion i have

 

yeah it's a OEM hood, there was a dent in the hood that i had on it before. so maybe something is out of alignment?

 

turn the two rubber bump stops all the way to the right and by the way was this car ever crashed in front?? a lot of cars get light hits and are never reported.. then people wonder why oem parts dont line up

 

i bought the car with a dent in the hood already. i didnt crash it, i bought it like that.

 

Try adjusting the hood mounts. Seems like you need to pull the hood back a bit and mess around with the latch too.

 

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x2

 

is it an oem hood?? or aftermarket???

 

my friends hood does the exact same thing too

 

did you try to take the bump stops completely out and see how it looked????

 

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Can you not read or just not comprehend what you read? O.P. already stated it was a OEM hood.


Play with it a little more, i had to play with my hood for about a hour before i got it to fit right on my eg

 

thanks, i messed with the latch and no difference. i'll try to mess around with the hood mounts and let you guys know.

thanks guys!

 

Looks like you have a 96-98 hood on there.

 

yea be careful the ek has like a mid model slight body mod between 96-98 and 99-00 also i would bet there is always a possibility of a mix up between 2 and 4 door models or even hatch idk either worst come to worse just grab a cf hood an be done with it lol thats what i did

 

i'm sure it's from a hatch but not 100% sure on whether it came form a 96-98 or a 99-00.


thanks for the heads up

 

yeah i took them completely out and there's no difference

 

my friends hood does the same thing...

 

how do you go about adjusting the hood latch?

 

when you open the hood there are 2 screws that is hold the latch.
unscrew it and take a flat head with hammer and bang it around to move it.


here is my after market hood. the hood is kinda still out of line.
i get a closer pic later

 

Hood looks like it belongs to a 96-98

 

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No, it's the right hood.

Try pulling up on your front bulkhead. Take the bumper off and where the upper grill is, bend that metal piece up slightly. Sometimes it will get bent if you are leaning on it while working in the engine bay.