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Colin
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19th Apr 10 at 10:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
wow unlucky :*
3CorsaMeal
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19th Apr 10 at 10:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
it must be gutting

seen a few people do it on the corrado forum, bonnet is about 7ft in the air when open on them
Marc
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19th Apr 10 at 10:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Mines never done it
Ellis
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19th Apr 10 at 11:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rick Draper
So in reality its not a faulty mechanism its a poor service routine.

Disagree
Jez_B
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Whys everyone being so arsey? If he says its the catch its the catch, hes hardly going to want to intentionally ruin a bonnet, windscreen and roof is he?

So many know it alls on this forum.

Nick-S
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19th Apr 10 at 11:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
how fast were you going when it let go?
Ellis
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quote:
Originally posted by Jez_B
Whys everyone being so arsey? If he says its the catch its the catch, hes hardly going to want to intentionally ruin a bonnet, windscreen and roof is he?

So many know it alls on this forum.

Thanks mate - if I could of avioded it I would have, just didn't know they were faulty. I knew they pretty poor but didn't know that they failed so drastically as it did.
Ellis
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quote:
Originally posted by GSi_16v
how fast were you going when it let go?


Was over the speed limit unfortunately which has probably only made the damage worse
Nick-S
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19th Apr 10 at 11:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Bet that went with a right bang!!

Unlucky though. Just hope it dont cost to much to sort
ajscorsa
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19th Apr 10 at 11:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
must have shit yourself good and proper lol.

Thats gutting mate, hopefully you'll get it sorted without having to lose an arm and a leg
Ellis
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Yeah too right, nearly made a mess of myself. Lucky the curve of the bonnet allowed me to see a bit to get it under control.

Was a horrible noise when it happened.
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What damage did your arse do to the seat !!
Ellis
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DaveyLC
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quote:
Originally posted by Ellis
quote:
Originally posted by Jez_B
Whys everyone being so arsey? If he says its the catch its the catch, hes hardly going to want to intentionally ruin a bonnet, windscreen and roof is he?

So many know it alls on this forum.

Thanks mate - if I could of avioded it I would have, just didn't know they were faulty. I knew they pretty poor but didn't know that they failed so drastically as it did.


They aren't faulty.. They just require lubricating every year.
Ellis
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Aye, sorry wrong choice of word there. I'll know for the future - cheers for your help.
Muzzy@VauxhallScotland
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Ouch, are you going through with fixing it?
Ben G
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bloody hell heard of this happening on clio's before, not the nicest thing to happen when you can't see where you're going.

hope it's all right, hopefully the roof isn't buggered.

some people on this forum are wankers aswell. they know exactly what happened even though you were driving it and while were sitting at home wanking off to midget porn.

[Edited on 19-04-2010 by Ben G]
Ellis
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Flol Ben
spankyjames
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really unlucky mate

my mates scooby did the same thing
he's now put aero catches on his
l15ter
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G

some people on this forum are wankers aswell. they know exactly what happened even though you were driving it and while were sitting at home wanking off to midget porn.

[Edited on 19-04-2010 by Ben G]




at the end of the day at least no one was injured....apart from your wallet.
Wrighty
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wow, as colin said. unlucky. never ever heard of another subaru do this though. How fast were you going? must have been a really dodgy bonnet catch to let go though?
andys sxi
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i had a bonnet fly open on me aswell and my corsa got written off i was doing 70mph on the motorway in the middle lane when mine happened it was very scarey moment

April 08 feature car
Graham88
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Gutting mate I always love the look of the front of your scoob
AndyCorsaSport
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quote:
Originally posted by fro-dizzle
If the roof is dented cars are usually written off when that happens.


No they arent.

Unlucky mate, happened to my mates classic impreza a couple of years back. common fault, and as Ben G said, common on Clio's too, just happened to a mate with a Clio too
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i had a bonnet on my nova flip up on me whilst doing 40 luckily it kinda came up and hovered a bit rather than just slam my screen. as soon as i saw it lift it got about half way on i slammed on and it went back down!!!!! shit myself to be fair!!!

also happened to a mate of mine on his civic luckily for him the bonnet was carbon fibre so gave way a bit more and did a bit less damage to the roof etc just made a mess of an expensive bonnet

either way mate gutted for you and ignore the nob jockeys who seem to know everything about anything anal warriors FTL

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