My poor little cinq is in the wars!! I've taken it to a local garage for some love and attention and we have discovered that my bonnet catch wont click down properly because the bodywork is slightly bent. The garage wont try and straighten it out Does anyone here have any tips? Last thing I need is to be driving down the M62 and the bonnet fly up. Its bad enough they cant get a new motor for my heaters till next monday so my dashboard looks NAKED!!

Cinq SX 900 - small but perfectly formed )

Why won't they straighten it out? Why is it bent anyway?

STEVE - the white-haired lunatic Panda owner and beagle fanatic ...

why not have a go straightening urself? or get another garage to do it


My Lovely Uno

Hei.

Me and my brother smashed our Ritmo (Strada) 130 TC last winter. We had to chop off and weld on a front from another Ritmo to make it driveable on regular roads. (We didn't do this ourselves). The bonnet (also from another other Ritmo) was very misplaced, but with muscle power [8D] we bent, and with a sledge hammer and a wrench [:0] we got hit the bonnet catch in place. Pretty brutal, but it worked. Get a local DIY car mechanic or someone else to take care of it if you can't do it yourself. How did you bend the bodywork?

Morten.

I didnt even know the bodywork WAS bent. I just knew I had to slam my bonnet to get it to shut properly and lately it was getting worse

Cinq SX 900 - small but perfectly formed )

You usually have to slam most bonnets, or at least drop it 10 inches. If it's been getting worse then it probably isn't bent bodywork but just the catch?!

Cinq owner, Punto on the way!

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