accident on the freeway :(

[dsastr_clan]

so i was with my girl on the way to the movies when i decided to take the freeway i was goin about 75 mph when it BANG!!!!! my carbon fiber hood popped open, it was so scary!!! the impact from it was so hard that the little thingys on the moon roof where u hook up the moon roof cover snapped out!! my CBF hood bended backwayrds(it didnt shatter which im impressed) and totally messed my roof up, it was so sad to see my 240 in pain, ive been driving my car with a cb hood for about 3 yrs and that has never happend before!! well this is the second time that type of s*** happens to me on my first 240sx the stock hood did the same thing anyways i have put the old stock hood on it but i will def miss my cb hood it was an invader VIS RIP! what shoud i do now?? get a another one? what model? OEM CBf? or just stick to the heavy a** stock hood. btw is not the i had left the hood open i know it was shut close.

[the converted]

Well if you do get another carbon hood, make sure you get hood pins.

[gnvarnadore]

you should know better than to have a cf hood without hood pins, its an epic fail on your part. hood pins are cheap too, you can get them from the local auto parts store for like $10. take it as a lesson learned so next time to shell out over $500 for a hood you'll remember $10 hood pins.

[MrSoutherland]

This happens all the time to people that don't have hood pins. I'm surprised it didn't do that within the past 3 years.

[Amtk240]

FAIL! oops, I mean

[Rebel831]

i want to see some pictures of the damage, i saw a brand new suv with the same hood accident...looked expensive to fix lol

[roadboy240sx]

[ZX88]

hood pins are ugly. its worth the risk.

[Hooked on 240]

+1 on the pics!

Hood pins FTW!

[simmode1]

hood pins are ugly. its worth the risk.

This kind aren't as hard on the eyes.

[MrSoutherland]

Pics or BAN!

[dsastr_clan]

damn guys!!i get it i get it!! my bad for not using hood pins on that !!! everybody is being so hard on me!!!!! TNX im ok by the waYYY!!! u know? when my hood popped open i didnt quite realized it, it took me about 5 seconds and during those 5 seconds after i heard the noise of the hood hitting the roof all of the sudden everythin goes black in front of me i thought that i just had gotten in a car accident and i had died!!! lol im serious. i will post some pics of the before and after tomorrow

[steve s14]

This kind aren't as hard on the eyes.

hood pins are ugly. its worth the risk.

appearance mods that reduce a cars performance = FAILmods that reduce your safety = deluxe FAIL supreme

If you choose to weed yourself out of the human race, more power to you.

[blacksrjdm]

so i was with my girl on the way to the movies when i decided to take the freeway i was goin about 75 mph when it BANG!!!!! my carbon fiber hood popped open, it was so scary!!! the impact from it was so hard that the little thingys on the moon roof where u hook up the moon roof cover snapped out!! my CBF hood bended backwayrds(it didnt shatter which im impressed) and totally messed my roof up, it was so sad to see my 240 in pain, ive been driving my car with a cb hood for about 3 yrs and that has never happend before!! well this is the second time that type of s*** happens to me on my first 240sx the stock hood did the same thing anyways i have put the old stock hood on it but i will def miss my cb hood it was an invader VIS RIP! what shoud i do now?? get a another one? what model? OEM CBf? or just stick to the heavy a** stock hood. btw is not the i had left the hood open i know it was shut close.

Hence why you are supposed to have hood pins on CF and fiberglass hoods.

[simmode1]

*AS AN AFTER THOUGHT*

Oh yeah! Glad you're ok, OP!

[blacksrjdm]

damn guys!!i get it i get it!! my bad for not using hood pins on that !!! everybody is being so hard on me!!!!! TNX im ok by the waYYY!!! u know? when my hood popped open i didnt quite realized it, it took me about 5 seconds and during those 5 seconds after i heard the noise of the hood hitting the roof all of the sudden everythin goes black in front of me i thought that i just had gotten in a car accident and i had died!!! lol im serious. i will post some pics of the before and after tomorrow

Honestly glad you and your GF are ok. People can be tough on here especially when most people get these CF or Fiberglass hoods, they tend to weigh considerably less than their metal counterpart, and are advised to install some sort of hood pins, for the latches on most of those hoods arent atached quite as well as they could be, and because of the weight issue. Most people tend to disreguard that suggestion and when this happens it is a "I told ya so" situation and people can tend me somewhat cold about it.

Good luck in the rebuild and want to see pics of the car and the GF...Lol.

[HoosierSX]

so.... where the hell are the pics?

[2fizzleforshizzle]

I had the same thing happen to me last year with my cf hood. My rearview mirror shot of the windshield and flew past my head! Scary stuff man!

[dsastr_clan]

this is my bb



this the hood after the accident!

[dsastr_clan]

so.... where the hell are the pics?

[dsastr_clan]

[OutToWinPAHC]

Good luck, fix the hood and paint it to match the car. Yeah looking at your pics with your "my headlights are busted mod" you can see the gap between the lamps and hood. It was bound to happen, wind is powerful.

How is the roof?

[ILoveMyRHS13]

Good; carbon fiber is f***ing ugly.