Rudaluda

alright well yall remember last week how i posted that my rear window shattered, well tonight im driving to top dawgz iin NJ i was DD....argh but anyways im going 60mph down highway all the sudden i hear this weird noise, it gets real breezy in my car....yep you guess it the whole window blew away...oh yeah it was holding together because of the tint.....lol wow. i found a new rear window in Junk yard but no one will pull it for me they dont want to go in the junk yard to get it....argh i have bad luck.

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Tola

Did it hit anyone??? My new job is in Jersey and it terrifies me to drive there everyday, cuz of people like you!!

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Rudaluda

LOL, no it was a desolate road....but im soo happy it rained all day today in NJ...

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preludatic

Rudaluda and i have the worse luck with our ludes, lemme tell ya. I'm now on windshield number 5 (in the past 4 yrs)

First one was cuz someone vandilized my car with a bucket of dog ****...
-Didnt know they pulled my hood pins
-Cleaned car, went for a drive.
-100 yrds later, hood comes up into windshield

Second one was 4th of July 2004
-Showed friends my H22 i just installed
-Got wasted, started to rain
-Ran outside and just dropped the hood (didnt hook pins since it was pouring)
-Proceeded to get wasted, and slept at that house.
-Girlfriend picks up car for me, hood smashes windhsield

Third one
-Living in Richmond VA, no tools, need oil change
-Bring it to walmart
-I forget to check hoodpins
-Drive away, hood smashes windshield

Fourth one
-Visiting family in NY
-Bout to drive back to VA on a very windy day
-Notice i'm a quart low on oil
-Prop hood up, and pouring oil in
-Gust of wind comes, hood comes off prop
-Hood barely rests on windshield
-But then i notice that when the corners of the hood hit my wiper blades, the wiper blades bent inward and spider-cracked windshield.

So now i'm on #5. None of that includes:
-the accident i was in,
-my h23 that blew
-two starters
-muffler that fell off on my way to a redsox game
-Rear bumper that was molded on that got ripped off on a steap curb
-Three break ins

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Rudaluda

yep i think as soon as i fix the problems on my ludes they are gone!!!
Who knows what ill buy but i do have a 2 bay garage now,....hmm

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Tola

Why the heck are you using a hood that requires a hood pin then?! I would think that by the 2nd time, you'd put on a hood that'll use the factory latch.

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dark_rican

I hear you guys with lude problems. I'm on windshield 3. But no hood problems. As for the rear window. I have a part car that i just ripped out the H22 out just last nite. The car will be gone to the junk yard soon. I'm in NY. I have 2 luders who want the back window just because there defogger doesnt work. I ripped out the whole interior and the rear window doesnt look to be that hard to take out.Looks a lot easier than the front windshield. Do you jersey luders come to NY at all for meets?

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preludatic

because if you know who i am, my lude was in a bad accident and my radiator support is bent in quite a bit so even if i wanted to (which I DO!) put a factory hood back on it, the latch wouldnt line up. so im stuck having to remember bout the pins til i get a new ride.

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BionicKris

Preludatic,

I definitely know the feeling of having the hood fly up on you, since I had it happen to me also. Back in '88 a WV MkI GTI ('Helga") that was lowered and had a set of Porsche wheels and brakes on it- really sweet.- way, way back in the EARLY days of the import tuning scene, but it also happened to me...

One day I'm driving on a 2-lane back road in a line of cars on a straightaway and it was pouring rain. All of a sudden, at 60 MPH my hood flies open right up against the windshield; It was just as though someone suddenly pulled a black shade down over the windshield. The windshield came back enough to pin the wipers and burn out the motor.

All I could do was take my foot off the gas, put on the flashers, and try to see around the hood so I could slow down enough to feel the right side tires on the gravel shoulder. (The shoulder was only about a foot wide). I did a U-turn and went back up the road to a deli- in the pouring rain with my head out the side window. You couldn't even see out the gap at the bottom of the windshield. When I got to the deli I parked under a full tree for some protection from the rain and called my mother to come meet me so I could follow her car to my parents' house where I could stick it in their garage to see what I could do.

Luckily a telephone worker pulled in with his van and pulled up next to me. He had just left the deli and saw me with my head out the window and this GTI with the hood laid back, slowing up to turn into the deli lot, so he swung around and came back to see if he could be of any help. We tried to pull the hood down, but the hinges were so bent the hood would only pivot from laying against the windshield to sticking straight up in the air. He loosened the hinges, and then he had some heavy wire in his truck so we wired the hood down on each side through the grille. We were able to lower it to the point where it was about 18" above the grille, but at least it was just low enough that I could barely see over the front of it to try to drive home. I didn't have wipers, but I could still see better than 30 minutes earlier!

I took the car to a garage the next day and the first shop told me I needed a new hood, hinges, wiper arms, wiper motor and paint, and they told me the hood was twisted. I knew it wasn't twisted because at home I removed the hinges and laid the hood down on the car and the gaps were perfectly even on the sides and the front over the grille. They must have assumed that since I'm a female I wouldn't know the difference.

I was so annoyed by the guys at the first shop that I went to another shop. These guys agreed on the work for the wiper arms/ motor, hood hinges, and painting the hinges and touching up whatever paint was nicked outside, but they also agreed with me that the hood was straight- Their estimate was a 1/4 what the first shop estimated!!

The culprit? Both of the hood latch screws had pulled loose, and the latch itself was still attached to the front of the hood with the two mounting screws still sticking out through the mounting holes. Who EVER checks that area out on their car? Now I do....

BionicKris

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