Goodday. Something depressing happen today.Driving on the highway,then all of a sudden ''WAPP'' bonet flips open.Was a bit frightening, pulled on the shoulder to see what happed .Bonet was in a mess flipped back and hit the hood at top of windsheild ,seems that the hinge ketch FAILED.Ponged It out but im Happy that everyone that was in the car is ok.Could have been worse.

No good. Same thing happened to me. bonnet scoop stopes it wrapping over onto roof though.

The bit I hate are the tips above the hinges. Bonnet and roof easy enough to fix. You could tap the roof out part way from the inside

Check your wipers too, mine broke a wiper arm

I feel for you mate!!! That sucks! the fact it ruined your poor roof, if the bonnet was just ruinedthats easy enough to fix... #OOPS# happens, time to start working on it again! :S

did that on my sedan, but it was only at about 10kph so all it did was bend the already #OOPS#ed bonnet. put some wood on the strut towers and closed the bonnet to straighten it and drove it for the rest of the time it was registered

Is there anyway i could add a secondary latch.

Datsun 1200 comes standard with a hood latch and secondary catch.

If you have ever had the hood off, the latch may need adjustment to work properly.

This is the latch:



And this hook lever is the secondary catch:

How does the secondary catch has 2springs? mine has 1.

I consider my bonnet pins as secondary catches but they act more like primary ones lol.

Yeah I'd go Pins, plus I reckon they'd suite the look of your car!!
Plus if you're getting a new bonnet it should be easy enough to line it all up...
(and thank your lucky stars it wasn't a GX bonnet!! :S ")
Still man that sucks ey.

I had it happen to an old one tonner ute and it ruined the car as kingswood bonnets weigh a tonne and the thud was lets say horrific at 140kmh on a country road.

My next one tonner had a fibreglass tilt front end and apart from never possible to flip open as it opens the other way it saved about 120kg overall from the front end!

this is where Mazda classic cars are better designed with reverse opening bonnets.