So is anyone worried their hood is going to break free?

i'm not so much worried about the hood but with my functional air brake side scoops and quarter window scoops I fear I might rip the entire side off my car off.

Adjust rubber hood stops - got it!


My hood shaking is annoying, its hit or miss tho.

I'm not worried about that on the GT, it did happen to my Jensen Healey once, folded back like aluminum foil and cracked the windshield; exciting, but not as much as the day I fired it up after a few months in the garage and forgot the hardtop was not attached.

I have noticed it too. I think it's just flex from the aluminum

Finally did some testing with the new latches and hood struts, and I can say the hood shake, lift and float is completely solved. I would imagine the struts also help bu the quick latch really keeps the hood pinned down. Before I got hod lift and shake on the highway at 70 mph, I tested this out to double digits now and it's solid. Here are the latches I used, and I bought the white ones but repainted them Oxford white.

Interesting Solution

Do those replace the "factory" latch system? Or are they a "supliment"
Also have issues with "hood shake" over 70 mph,have tried adjusting rubber stops with no success.Probably have dealer address at first service.
As far as I'm concerned,this is completely unacceptable,never owned a vehicle where the hood shakes,even when I drove various POS's when I was a kid.

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NorthshoreGt said:

Do those replace the "factory" latch system? Or are they a "supliment"
Also have issues with "hood shake" over 70 mph,have tried adjusting rubber stops with no success.Probably have dealer address at first service.
As far as I'm concerned,this is completely unacceptable,never owned a vehicle where the hood shakes,even when I drove various POS's when I was a kid.

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The stock latch and rubber bumps stops are in tact, but where adjusted for better hood and front bumper cover alignment. The rubber bumps are raised to be a little tighter now that I have the latches. The dealer will do nothing to fix the issue, whatever they do it will have no effect.

Mine does the same, stealership said it was fine. It bounces up and down a lot when doing 90.

Edit: After reading this, I just adjusted to three lines on the hood bumps. Hopefully that fixes it. Dealership should have adjusted this when I told them about it on my last visit. Pisses me off

pike1346 said:

Mine does the same, stealership said it was fine. It bounces up and down a lot when doing 90.

Edit: After reading this, I just adjusted to three lines on the hood bumps. Hopefully that fixes it. Dealership should have adjusted this when I told them about it on my last visit. Pisses me off

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After posting this I found 3 out of the 4 bolts holding the hood hinges weren't torqued down. I tightened them and was doing 80ish and it seemed to help as it was almost steady, but a little movement, which was good for me. When I started this thread I was over 100 one day when it became apparent the shaking was something I didn't like. Guess I better get up to more speed and see if it has gotten any better.

pike1346 said:

Mine does the same, stealership said it was fine. It bounces up and down a lot when doing 90.

Edit: After reading this, I just adjusted to three lines on the hood bumps. Hopefully that fixes it. Dealership should have adjusted this when I told them about it on my last visit. Pisses me off

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I noticed when I screwed the rubber bump stops up the hood did appear slightly more stable at hwy speeds, but pass a truck and it was bobbling again. Also moving the stop up pushed the hood ends up and created beg gaps at the bumper cover to hood ends near the headlights.

Since I got my new Stang about 4 months ago the hood flutter bothered me, after reading about it here in the forum I checked the hood bumpers and sure enough, the right one had 3 exposed threads but the left only had 1 exposed thread, turned it so 3 threads appeared and my hood flutter is now almost completely gone.

Terry

been 110-120 in my car on the track, no hood movement

Same here on my new Ecoboost

I had read about this and noticed it on mine the first time it got to 100 mph (NO clue how that happened:lol Anyway, it does shake a bit and for a moment I thought it was going to take off. I am going to try messing with the rubber stoppers as mentioned here, it makes sense that would cause a problem if they are not set properly...

ForTehNguyen said:

been 110-120 in my car on the track, no hood movement

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I wonder why?