No problem here. Doesn't budge a micron at highway speeds. And when I undo my latches, they are on TIGHT.

 

I've never had the hood lift problem. I have the insulated hood. Could it be that it's primarily X's with the noninsulated hood?

 

I have a Sahara with an insulated hood.

 

I have a Sahara with the insulated hood and have seen the hood lift.

 

6K miles on my JK and I never had it. Until I took a 5K mile road trip with my son. And it seemed that every hay truck we passed on two-lane highways caused the hood to lift several inches .. scarily so, I should add. If you drive city/suburban roads or multi-lane, divided highways, I don't think you'll ever see this. But that's not my style. I've driven from Oklahoma to both coasts almost entirely on two-lane roads. And it can get scary when passing the far less frequent (which is why I do it) 18 wheelers, especially hay trucks (don't ask me why--that's just the way it is).

--mark d.

 

Not sure what you mean by insulated... but i do have rubber seals all around the front of the hood.

Even doing 85mph on the freeway and passing a semi (or them passing me lol) i have not seen my hood budge, vibrate, or move in any way, shape or form.

Even on some gusty days with 40mph crosswinds i have not seen it move.

'07X 2-door

 

I've had it! Mine did it even with the spring out, and the hose glued in the full width. In a strong headwind, an oncoming semi is reason enough for me to ride the far edge of the road. This is rediculous! And, a bug shield doesn't help.

I'm gonna' try replacing the hinge pins with brass or stainless steel pins, then drill and tap the end, so I can latch it down, AND THEN, have a strap between the two hinges, with screws into the ends of the hinges.. One strap on each side of the hood, not both sides of the pins. I'll post pics when I do it....can't see how the plastic hinge pins come apart, might just cut the heads off on one side of each pin. There is a bushing at each side of the pin, then the actual thru' pin is fairly small.

Whatcha' think?

 

this isn't for you in particular... but i think all of us should stop with the negatives and be more positive! i find 90% of these posts are "problem" fixes or actual problems with the jeep, all negative... or maybe this is just me?

 

i'd like to see that... good idea. i was thinking of changing out a lot of the plastic screws and rivits with metal.

 

Try it passing a semi on a two lane road--when you're doing 85 going east and he's doing 85 going west. You'll see it. And, as another poster said, you'll quickly learn to get over to the far right side of the road. There is a separate danger in that, BTW: The danger of debris in that untraveled part of the road causing a tire failure at high speed.