That is why you use hood pins. If the latch is properly adjusted then most likely you will be fine. Sometimes sh** happens though.

 

This just happened to me. Fiberglass cowl hood that I thought was closed flew up and caved in my cowl. No damage to hood or windshield but cowl was messed up pretty bad including my cowl cover with gauges.

 

I think Ill get hood pins installed if I get a fiberglass hood.

 

yes/\ no way id run a glass hood without pins, for one the fiberglass hood might suffer form de-lamination and the latch could stay latched the hood fly up.

 

And my thought is; If a fiberglass hood started delaminating hood pins sure won't stop it from flying up. If it's delaminating it's thin every where not just at the latch or latching mechanism.

10 yrs using a stock steel stock hood and not once did it ever fly up and so far 10 yrs with a fiberglass hood and the same results............. But there is always tomorrow.

 

well it would because your holding down the top layer of glass which is a single piece, a lot of hoods are made in pieces and added together this is where they fail.

 

same thing happened to me 2 weeks after I got my 95. If you have insurance better than liability you have a chance of getting it fixed cheep, mine came out to the $100 deductible. mine would have come out to over $5000 but that was with the fiberglass hood broken, blew out the windshield and new roof and windshield framing and cowl. And yes the hood was closed all the way. Even thought of throwing hood pins on a stock metal hood after that.

 

I was under the impression that the hoods with fiberglass latch areas actually weaken and rip out over time, thus causing the hood the fly up while driving.

 

yes even stock sn95 hoods are bad about it

 

on mine the latch failed. The latch area had a metal plate so there was no possibility of it ripping out but didn't mean the latch wouldn't fail...