ok..uhm OUCH - friggin hood struts!!!!!
01-10-2006, 07:37 AM
#1
ok..uhm OUCH - friggin hood struts!!!!!
there really, REALLY has to be a better failure mode engineered into hood struts. i mean can't they be made to change color or be really noisy or shoot out sparks when they're about to fail?
opened up the hood to swap out a battery terminal (since the original corroded itself OFF of the positive). just as i'm tightening down the terminal, BAM! hood latch straight to the noggin. talk about shock and awe. surprised it didn't break skin...
guess what my next purchase is
opened up the hood to swap out a battery terminal (since the original corroded itself OFF of the positive). just as i'm tightening down the terminal, BAM! hood latch straight to the noggin. talk about shock and awe. surprised it didn't break skin...
guess what my next purchase is
01-10-2006, 10:36 AM
#8
This is so funny. This thread pops up from time to time. People spend thousands making their cars go a little faster or look a little better or spend thousands on stereo equipment with amps and subwoofers and whatnot. Then they don't want to fork over a measley fifty bucks for a pair of hood struts that will probably be that last ones they have to buy!!!!
01-10-2006, 10:44 AM
#9
Originally Posted by bhunter
This is so funny. This thread pops up from time to time. People spend thousands making their cars go a little faster or look a little better or spend thousands on stereo equipment with amps and subwoofers and whatnot. Then they don't want to fork over a measley fifty bucks for a pair of hood struts that will probably be that last ones they have to buy!!!!
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01-10-2006, 10:50 AM
#11
Originally Posted by MyGreenMax94
I don't even trust the new ones...One good puff of wind and......
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takes one heck of a large amount of wind to compress the hood shut on a new set.
01-10-2006, 10:55 AM
#12
Originally Posted by internetautomar
takes one heck of a large amount of wind to compress the hood shut on a new set.
Well yeah i'm sure it would,but why spend $50 bucks when putting the little prop in there takes a whole 3 1/2 seconds
...It is just not worth the $$ to me...Besides that everytime i try to buy something from your site useing paypal,it wants me to use a echeck...When i have plenty of $$ in the p/p acct.
01-10-2006, 12:51 PM
#21
Originally Posted by bhunter
This is so funny. This thread pops up from time to time. People spend thousands making their cars go a little faster or look a little better or spend thousands on stereo equipment with amps and subwoofers and whatnot. Then they don't want to fork over a measley fifty bucks for a pair of hood struts that will probably be that last ones they have to buy!!!!
01-10-2006, 01:50 PM
#22
I miss my VE
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Originally Posted by bhunter
This is so funny. This thread pops up from time to time. People spend thousands making their cars go a little faster or look a little better or spend thousands on stereo equipment with amps and subwoofers and whatnot. Then they don't want to fork over a measley fifty bucks for a pair of hood struts that will probably be that last ones they have to buy!!!!
01-10-2006, 01:54 PM
#23
I went 2 years on the Originals from 92 and they would only start to slip in the extreme cold.
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me
so I knew those were gone fer shure
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me
so I knew those were gone fer shure
01-10-2006, 02:41 PM
#24
Originally Posted by internetautomar
I went 2 years on the Originals from 92 and they would only start to slip in the extreme cold.
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me so I knew those were gone fer shure
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me
so I knew those were gone fer shure
01-10-2006, 02:57 PM
#25
Originally Posted by internetautomar
I went 2 years on the Originals from 92 and they would only start to slip in the extreme cold.
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me so I knew those were gone fer shure
of course the ones on my VE5 were shot and started foaming at me
so I knew those were gone fer shureWHAT?!?! 2 years?!?! wow...so i guess almost 16 years should be considered better than average...r u certain the ones on the 92 were originals? 2 years seems obscenely short for OEM
01-10-2006, 04:40 PM
#27
mine are 14 years old and still struttin' 
mine fell last night while i was trying to fix my spark plug dilemma, because IMMEDIATELY after i put the "new'' plugs in, it started raining and who can go to work the next morning with Fawked plugs? Not i. Nut yeah, i only put the hood up liek halfway so rain wouldnt get into my plug holes, and i went to the drivers side for something inside the car, and i heard the hood fell...landed on my coilpacks, but no damage.
mine fell last night while i was trying to fix my spark plug dilemma, because IMMEDIATELY after i put the "new'' plugs in, it started raining and who can go to work the next morning with Fawked plugs? Not i. Nut yeah, i only put the hood up liek halfway so rain wouldnt get into my plug holes, and i went to the drivers side for something inside the car, and i heard the hood fell...landed on my coilpacks, but no damage.
01-15-2006, 09:05 PM
#28
just ordered some off ebay- 29 shipped..
I looked at mines, they are oem, and she is a 93, so 13~~~ years give or take, not bad. i say average is about 10-15 years depending how many regular oil changes and or high strung young maxima modders open thier hoods. ex intake install or maxima meets
I looked at mines, they are oem, and she is a 93, so 13~~~ years give or take, not bad. i say average is about 10-15 years depending how many regular oil changes and or high strung young maxima modders open thier hoods. ex intake install or maxima meets
01-16-2006, 08:49 PM
#30
Originally Posted by todamax
I just bought new hood struts for the 944. Cost me a whole $26 bucks. Worth every penny.
oooh... a new mod!! why from a 944? more travel? stronger? aesthetics?
01-16-2006, 09:20 PM
#32
Originally Posted by DaWifey's90
oooh... a new mod!! why from a 944? more travel? stronger? aesthetics?
01-16-2006, 09:20 PM
#33
Originally Posted by DaWifey's90
oooh... a new mod!! why from a 944? more travel? stronger? aesthetics?
No, he bought them FOR his Porsche, that he OWNS. (I think anyways, thats what I gather from his post)
01-17-2006, 02:50 PM
#37
hrmmm i just installed some healights bulbs and my struts are stalking me!!! when i am not looking it creeps down and stops and the i push it up. Again it goes down slowly. Had to use my old noggin' to prop the hood, not bad since i am 5'11'' and have long arms to work i with. 
01-17-2006, 03:18 PM
#38
Originally Posted by Joe Fontinyatz
That 944 is pretty sweet, eh? 
Its a good time. Strange thing Is that I've got less money and time into it than the Max. I just wish it had come along first...
01-17-2006, 08:21 PM
#39
I gues my struts must be extra special then, cause they have lasted 19 years and a few months, and still tickin. Also my hood struts come with a plastic safety bar attached to them, so that when they do fail, you can prop the hood up on that one. 