I'm a lucky boy

[anonymous-user]

On the way to work this morning along the motorway, accelerated to overtake a car and the bonnet lifted about 5 inches

Slammed on the anchors and thankfully the bonnet sunk back down again (I was thinking it was going to dissapear into the sunset!).

Mental note - must make sure bonnet is locked after checking oil levels

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 1st May 12:17

[RedLeicester]

I think that happens to every Cerbera owner at some time or another. Only happens once. :biggrin:

[ro_butler]

I have done exactly the same thing and oddly enough my bonnet doesn't lift, even at high speed (on track, obviously I never go above 70 on the road!).
Strange, maybe I have a really heavy bonnet

[DonnyMac]

RedLeicester said:

Only happens once.

...a week

[warpig]

at fighting torque last year mine came up about 6 inches a few times, even when doing nearly 150 mph it never went any higher (have now fixed broken catches)

[FarmyardPants]

I wouldn't slam the anchors on though in case it flips forwards. I once had my wipers fail (not cerb) in lane 3 of the motorway in pissing rain, couldn't see a thing. Had to swivel my head round and 'reverse' my way through the traffic with some moderate braking.

[plumAJP]

same here, I raced a pulsar and as I overtook him the bonnet lifted about a foot, I slammed the anchors on as the bonnet dropped back down I locked it in very quickly and still managed to woop the pulsar. haha

Ive forgotten to lock the bonnet on more than one occassion though.

[fatjon]

Even after replacing the rods and plates on mine it still kept popping up. A set of these solved it permanently

http://www.aerocatch.com/category_sublist.php?cati...

They look nice too, fit nicely above the existing catch locations and the pin goes in one of the original bolt holes after re tapping it to M10

Jon

[fatjon]

correction, this version

http://www.aerocatch.com/category_sublist.php?cati...

[Allandwf]

I did that on the test drive when I bought it !!! and a few times since, never comes up more than a few inches, scary though.

[Dave 500]

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have done this

[Demondad]

I do the bootlid version fairly regular, that pops up like a Porker spoiler at 90.

[greenm]

There has been a lot about this and the benifits of the underbody splitter just in front of the engine bay that stops the air ramming into the engine compartment. The other argument seems to come about which way they should face forwrd or backwards and i have seen both. I had my son make one 30" wide an inch to pop rivet it on and one inch facing forward with a 25 degree down angle. Fitted it drove to London and back 70 miles each way at a normal Cerb speed??? lets say more than enough to cause the lifting problem and it was not untill I got home and went to open the bonnet to check all was well to find I had forgotten to lock it? Mines a LW and very flimsy did not move at all? It does seem arguable which way around they should be fitted but dam it worked. Big problem is if you go over any bump were the wheels are not going up and over the same hump and you do turn into a bulldozer as i found out on my Dads drive. It actually sits right between the wheels so normal speed bumps are not a problem. I am no expert on areo dynamics but must help keeping the front down a little as well??