bonnet fliped open

[daves ibiza]

as title saids up the top
i was working on car the other day doin coldside dv. and gas bonnet lifter my misses called me in for tea i finished the job all happy with the results in sound ect the i left bonnet open on first catch then went back out abouts 9ish and totally forgot bonnet latch any way got couple of hundreds yards and bang it hit the top ov roof and bent my bonnet and ripped lifters out i was only goin 30 on a one road street. anyways didnt cause as much damage as thought just bent my bonnet luckly didnt smash window and damage roof. ive priced up a bonnet and its come to £58 so not bad anyone think that price is cheap or expensive . i think the bonnet lifters saved most of damage really so im a bit happy bout that. many thanks for yout time.dave

 

[tarzan]

hooly **** that was bad
what was in that cop of tea??some lsd
hope you get i sorted soon and don`t take a cop of tea next time

 

[Fl@pper]

sounds pretty reasonable for a bonnet and buy a lottery ticket as ya one lucky sod if that's the only damage

 

[tommy2008cupra]

cheaper than i thought it was guna be mate

 

[Big_daddy]

sounds pretty reasonable for a bonnet and buy a lottery ticket as ya one lucky sod if that's the only damage

True say, windscreen is minor but if the roof got damage, would be real bad. Good excuse to get a carbon fibre bonnet

 

[gazcuprablk]

my bonnet flipped up on me and lucky enough never had any damage apart from the bonnet being dented both sides but got another red 1 from salvage yard for 30sheets, and as for the carbon bonnet you wont find a second hand 1 for love no money ive been hunting them down on here for ages lol

 

[s1l3nc3r]

Lucky you were only going slow and that was the only damage...

Id use it as an excuse to get a carbon bonnet though...

 

[CupraElliott]

Another reason why I hate bonnet lifters. I once done motorway speeds with the bonnet on just the catch and it never popped up.

Obviously with the lifters always tensioned up there always going to be wanting to open the bonnet.

Bet that made you **** yourself a bit?

 

[Martyn1989]

Bet that scared the **** out of you. Let that be a lesson to us all!

£58 aint bad though.

 

[ibizacupra]

awesome price for the bonnet. my Oe one cost me a lot more than that.
much higher speed in mine when it flipped up.... and muchos damage.

you sound like you got away with it a lot less.. (which you would some 70mph slower than mine was at the time)

 

[Suchley]

Mine was on the catch and i went all the way to bristol with it , Didnt know the whole time!

 

[daves ibiza]

lol scared the out of me and misses. yeah gaz i remember you telling me yours fliped open you still got your chalk board

 

[daves ibiza]

i am looking at carbon bonnets and pricey is not the word lol

 

[tommy2008cupra]

i know jus spray it black or sumin lol alot cheaper

 

[mr_D]

as title saids up the top
i was working on car the other day doin coldside dv. and gas bonnet lifter my misses called me in for tea i finished the job all happy with the results in sound ect the i left bonnet open on first catch then went back out abouts 9ish and totally forgot bonnet latch any way got couple of hundreds yards and bang it hit the top ov roof and bent my bonnet and ripped lifters out i was only goin 30 on a one road street. anyways didnt cause as much damage as thought just bent my bonnet luckly didnt smash window and damage roof. ive priced up a bonnet and its come to £58 so not bad anyone think that price is cheap or expensive . i think the bonnet lifters saved most of damage really so im a bit happy bout that. many thanks for yout time.dave

hahahahaha. sorry to hear that mate

what was in that cop of tea??some lsd

that was starters you wanna ask what was for main course and desert

i am looking at carbon bonnets and pricey is not the word lol

do it. i will have a look down the scrappies next time i am there. they did have a mk3 the other week

 

[daves ibiza]

ive orders a bonnet now but it would be nice for carbon one lol

ry you going sunday dude

 

[daves ibiza]

and you can set up my laptop isit or if not bring yours got new resistors now.

if looks could kill id be dead the misses face was a picture when it liffted because it bent so far back i couldnt see out off gap lol

 

[Dazzooloo]

Not that bad I was doing 80 and it flew up

 

[daves ibiza]

how bad is damage did it hit roof

 

[arron2004]

Lucky it dint do to much damage eh! Does your coldside dv location make it louder?