Check yer bonnet bolts!!
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Had a rather worrying,sphincter-clenching moment on saturday morning,whilst doing 90 overtaking the euroboxes up Bluebell Hill on the M2.
My 390's bonnet decided that i wasn't going fast enough and decided it was going to have a go itself .
basically the left hand bonnet bolt had fell out into the inner wing at which point the forward edge shot up,
(fortunately was restrained by the gas strut),however this was enough to dislodge the bonnet catch,causing me to have a rather novel view forwards,from under the bonnet,now floating 18 inches in the air on the left hand side!
After having let off the gas and coasted into the hard shoulder i found the bolt where it had fallen , and put in back . As luck would have it there was no damage to the bonnet ,only a scuff mark on the inner wing where the bonnet edge had dropped back down.
So beware!! Check yer bolts
My 390's bonnet decided that i wasn't going fast enough and decided it was going to have a go itself .
basically the left hand bonnet bolt had fell out into the inner wing at which point the forward edge shot up,
(fortunately was restrained by the gas strut),however this was enough to dislodge the bonnet catch,causing me to have a rather novel view forwards,from under the bonnet,now floating 18 inches in the air on the left hand side!
After having let off the gas and coasted into the hard shoulder i found the bolt where it had fallen , and put in back . As luck would have it there was no damage to the bonnet ,only a scuff mark on the inner wing where the bonnet edge had dropped back down.
So beware!! Check yer bolts
Good stories! I think threadloc's the way to go, as there's not really anything to attach the lock-wire to in the vicinity.
This is getting a bit of a habit,cos in my youth(sound like an old man now!) i watched the bonnet of my Westfield SEi fly over my head 1/4 mile from home! although i think i forgot a couple of clips!:0)
As luck would have it the thing did about 2 complete flips and landed right way up ,suffering only minor scratches underneath where you could'nt see them!
This is getting a bit of a habit,cos in my youth(sound like an old man now!) i watched the bonnet of my Westfield SEi fly over my head 1/4 mile from home! although i think i forgot a couple of clips!:0)
As luck would have it the thing did about 2 complete flips and landed right way up ,suffering only minor scratches underneath where you could'nt see them!
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