Always remember hood pins

[gabossie]

Well, a few months back someone backed into my car in the parking lot here at school in the middle of the night and took off. Slowly, I have been replacing parts. This weekend, I finally replaced my hood with a nice new carbon fiber one. I got a good deal and it looked awesome, I was happy. I installed the hood myself while I was test fitting some parts for a place in Irvine, and everything seemed fine. That night, I got on the freeway and hit about 75mph when the hood decides to come unlatched! If flew up and cracked the **** out of my windshield, then folded over the top of my car and shattered my sunroof on my head and dented the crap out of the top of my car. Somehow, I managed to get myself from the middle of the freeway, to the side of the freeway without hitting anything or anyone (anyone who has been on the 10 fwy at 7PM knows this would not be the easiest thing to do). I'm really not sure how I did it, but I'm glad I did. Overall, the it caused at least 3k worth of damage to my baby. Lesson learned, never leave home with a cf hood and no hoodpins!:(

[Mr1der]

good god man, glad to hear your ok thouh. Hood pins are a safety feature for a reason:D

so is the body damage covered by insurance?

[krazy skwerel]

Man that sucks. Glad you didn't panic and really mess up the car.

[gabossie]

For the first time in my life, I'm glad I pay out the *** for full coverage. Up to this point I had any kind of accidents or anything, so I was starting to wonder why I pay so much....now I know. It's all covered, I just have to pay the $250 deductable. Insurance is even replacing the cf hood with a new cf one

I'm glad I didn't panic too, I could have easily cause a whole lot more trouble than I did.

[GELLIS2586]

Im puttin some in immediately.

[pgt892]

When my hood latch broke on my old Probe GT I thought I would be fine ghetto-rigging it and as soon as I hit ~60 the hood flew up and cracked the **** out of the windshield. Hood pins were a requirement after that. Lesson learned.

[Bandit240]

The hood latch on my 86 Samurai has always been a problem. Ive had the hood fly up 3 times on it. Now the latch is totaly broken(poped cable) so i use a ratchet strap to hold it down. It has a small strap tiedown for the fold down windscreen that i tie it to. Works pretty damn good now.

[rico05]

I forgot my pins once and at about 75mph, my hood did the exact same as yours. $1700 of damage to the roof of my FC3S...

[The Mic]

jeez again!??!!

man you suck at this modifying car thing

[Looneybomber]

*edit* I'm a dumbass...Didn't realize this thread was a year old.