I have the same problem on my passenger side. One of my original ideas was
the same idea of puting in a bar of some sort to hold it straight. I will
just try a little muscle work ato bend it back for the time being before i
paint it. I always open my bonnet from the middle.
>From: public@sweavo.34sp.com
>Reply-To: public@sweavo.34sp.com
>To: Spitfires <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: The dreaded bent-in hood edge
>Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:13:59 +0100
>
>Quoting s1500@comcast.net:
>
>...
> > And on my Spit, yep, the hood's a bit bent inward too. When you
>open/close
> > the door it rubs against it and has even scraped a little bit of paint
>off.
>...
> > 1. What the heck is causing this? I can see the crease clearly, but
>can't
> > quite explain how it happened in the first place. The passenger side is
> > perfectly straight.
>
>My guess is that this is why I was told not to lift the bonnet by the
>latch.
>It's a poor bit of design really because the latch really is the obvious
>thing
>to use to lift that heavy bonnet.
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