Check yer bonnet bolts!
Discussion
Just had a slightly trouser-browning experience
on the way to work, doing a-hem, a little over
60 mph and accellerating to terminal, the passenger
side of the bonnet starts flying up in the air!
I jammed on the anchors sharpish and it came down
below 40. Bit like flying a kite really except
it would do some damage if it came off....
Turns out the pivot bolt on that side had undone,
and it swivelled so that it escaped the bonnet
catch at the top. Luckily the bolt had landed on
the wheelarch so I didn't lose it.
If I had been tunning it up, it would have been
V8 al fresco and an expensive spray job. So
check yer bonnet bolts, chaps!
- Adam
on the way to work, doing a-hem, a little over
60 mph and accellerating to terminal, the passenger
side of the bonnet starts flying up in the air!
I jammed on the anchors sharpish and it came down
below 40. Bit like flying a kite really except
it would do some damage if it came off....
Turns out the pivot bolt on that side had undone,
and it swivelled so that it escaped the bonnet
catch at the top. Luckily the bolt had landed on
the wheelarch so I didn't lose it.
If I had been tunning it up, it would have been
V8 al fresco and an expensive spray job. So
check yer bonnet bolts, chaps!
- Adam
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