I poped up the hood today to check some stuff and for some reason i put my hand on the fender but i didn't mention that the hood was going down slowly......all i remember that 3 of my fingers stuck between fender and fully locked hood and here's the result after about 3 hours

Lesson learned(too late) beware guys fingers worh more than 100$
oh yeah sometimes it's good to have an auto trans.

 

I smell pwnage.

 

lol sorry mate

 

Vice Grips?

 

consider yourself extremly lucky for still having your fingers attached. id donate $100 if i was u

 

damn so how did u get ur hands out?

 

but the casio watch is ok? im kidding. i had the hood come down on my head and make a nice gash the first time i got under the hood of my car.

piece of wood slipped out = no good

 

yeh i am kind of curious to know how you got your fingers out to......and why is it good to have an auto trans?

 

ouch.....yeah,how did you get out?

 

So he doesn't have to use his hand to shift.....

 

my friend was in the car and somehow he managed to pop up the hood really fast, while i was looking at my fingers sqeezed so funny

 

I'm curious as to how your going to pleasure yourself if it hurts.

Switch hitting ftw.

 

Doesn't look too bad, from the looks of it you are missing only 2 fingers.

 

 

yea, i had blown hood struts and forgot to tell the shop... i was sittin there watchin the guy w/his arm inside my engine bay, and BAM! the hood dropped righton his forearm... man he was pissed lol!

 

had the hood fall on my head more than once, hurts like a biotch!!!!!!!!!

heavy hood > my soft noggin = way tru story

 

yeah, for some reason, my hood struts get blown frequently, i guess im buyin some cheap quality stuff or something

 

I replaced the ones on my 2nd Max, I think my dad got them through his shop for like $45- is that cheap? What is everyone else paying for them???

-Matt

 

Well that $1.50 piece of wooden dowel hasn't collapsed yet. And it works in wind too.

 

I just read this at 7:30am, and almost pissed myself I laughed so hard.

 

hell yea...they are ur best friend for any car with hood struts .....they are fickle depending on temperature....so i always clamp the VGs on....i actually bought a spare just for that

 

Wasnt there a similar thread a little while back like this? I think it was called "My Maxima Broke My Hand"...or something like that.

 

Ouchies!

 

morning laughs ftw, glad you got your day off to a good start

 

i still dont get why you said that.....

 

If you're hood struts aren't blown already, clamping vice grips on is the fastest way to screw them up. I know cause the idiot I let change my clutch put vice grips on cause he was scared it would collapse, and that scratched the shaft of the struts up and messed up the seal. I was standing there and all the sudden oil just started gushing out of the struts cause he did that.
But once they're blown... vice grips are the way to go!

 

Hood fell on my fingers this summer, but i got revenge by beating them out and then they got shot at my friend's farm.

 

hahaha thats what my friend told me after that

 

wow, you must be pretty violent....lol

 

im still using vice grips as well, sorry about your fingers, i thought you were meaning the hood slamped on your hands and you were stuck for 3 hours? that would have been totally lame !

i think my hood weighs around 45 lbs, one day it may get me, but for now im still to cheap to buy hood struts. I ask about them all the time but people want to much. Then you here people saying stuff like . I just about new hood struts and a few months later they arent working. personally i dont know what to believe because mine are something like 9 years old.

some creative org memeber come up with some new space age design or something?

 

yea i just shove a 2x4 in the engine bay, works great.

 

I've been using vice grips for two years now and I haven't seen any reason to replace my hood struts

As for replacing the struts, I asked my brother. He's a mechanic for a BMW, but has worked on some Nissan vehicles in the past. He says that the Nissan OEM struts last longer than the generic brands (don't know how much longer, didn't ask). He said the generic ones are fine, but you'll replace them sooner, so I guess you get what you pay for.

 

WORD....i replaced mine a year ago...and when its a certain temperature outside or if i hang my work light form the hood it shuts

 

iiii would suggest not going back to them haha. they probably hate you now and will end up over the next time

 

damm!! sorry man...my friend had a softball injury on his right hand, and after a week or so he learned to shift and drive with his left hand!! tho, most of the times he took the pain of shifting with his right..but it was pretty cool.

i bought my struts from ebay..about $20-$30.. so far so good.. but changed them early this summer. other's say autozone or advanced auto has lifetime warranty on their products..about $20/each side.

 

lol I was grounding my starter today and as I was over the bay unscrewing something I noticed the hood on my landing on my head. It was slow so it didnt hurt but I was confused at first. Then realized the struts or whatever have failed.

 

The worse is doing something like the rear sparks, leaning over the front bumper, and having the hood latch stab u in the back.

Jae

 

Unless you're into showing off your engine bay at car shows, a old, cut-off broom stick works just fine. And it fits nicely into the trunk when I'm not using it.

 

Sorry to hear about your fingers. Did you fracture any of them?


I finally gave in and bought some a while back at Pepboys. Those puppies are still working great.

 

can sumone explain the whole vicegrip rigging