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Part of my latch seems be broken off, which causes it to bang against the lower filler panel if the hood gets slammed. It has actually dented my hood a little bit.
Anybody here with a useless hood laying around that has a good latch? Apparently there are no OER ones available.
The "broken" part is either so obvious that I'm not seeing it, or there's nothing broken, because I don't see any differences between yours and any of mine. If a piece of metal has broken off of it somewhere, then there should be some sign of that.
It doesn't look like your latch has become misaligned, if that's even a thing.
The latch has to hit the panel, otherwise it couldn't catch securely underneath it. Its spring is pretty strong, so maybe it just needs a good cleaning and lubricating so it can move more freely when it hits?
Possible that the hood hinges are just weak and wobbly, and the hood doesn't always come down straight anymore? Mine are, and that does affect the raising and lowering of the hood, but the latch hits and works fine.
The "broken" part is either so obvious that I'm not seeing it, or there's nothing broken, because I don't see any differences between yours and any of mine. If a piece of metal has broken off of it somewhere, then there should be some sign of that.
It doesn't look like your latch has become misaligned, if that's even a thing.
The latch has to hit the panel, otherwise it couldn't catch securely underneath it. Its spring is pretty strong, so maybe it just needs a good cleaning and lubricating so it can move more freely when it hits?
Possible that the hood hinges are just weak and wobbly, and the hood doesn't always come down straight anymore? Mine are, and that does affect the raising and lowering of the hood, but the latch hits and works fine.
To me it looks like something is broken from the circled part, it feels rough if I rub my finger over it. You can see where it has dimpled my hood where the two arrows are pointing. It also looks like there's a gap where the blue arrow is pointing like it's bent downward.
If I slam my hood the latch should go down into the hole and grab. Mine is too far back so it just bangs (which is what caused the dimples). I have to hold the latch open an inch or so, and then push down on the hood to close it.
