Went to open the hood this afternoon so I could pull the light bulbs out of the DEPO euro headlight, left front (it gets moisture in there after driving in heavy rain) and aim my hair dryer at the hole to dry it out, but as I pulled the hood release in the grill, I noticed immediately that the hood was much heavier than ever before, in fact, if I raised it up to where it should stay and let go of the hood it would come down in a crash, or on my head!

Seems like overnight the springs that hold it up just out of nowhere have disappeared...strange!

I did hear that there were a bunch of hood spring thieves up near Fowl Mouth.........gotta be careful of these fellows. They take the springs and melt them down and sell the steel for scrap metal.

Better lock your hood so it doesn't happen to the SL!!

You must of previously had O'Reilly work on the car instead of Stubbs.

__________________
1981 240d
Newport,RI

Am I in the right forum?

Trying to be serious and get wetted.....

The hood springs must have weakened, but from yesterday! I'm baffled!

I doubt I'm an isolated situation, surely someone can confirm similar, but, well, I dha no, I'm not a smart as Laura so I'll never be a senator!

Ohh........sorry........my mistake........you're trying to be serious this time. Who knew?

I'm betting that one of the springs snapped. It's hanging down and you can't see it. The lifting force is now considerably higher.

It occurred because somebody was doing too much wrenching on the vehicle and opened the hood 10,000 times...............

That is strange, sometimes one of my springs comes adrift and i find it hanging down there in the pocket, but never both at once, Are you missing any "time", maybe your car got abducted

Take you flash light and look back in that pocket

__________________


1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

This is definitely the wrong forum for such a smart**s comment. Please go back and remove it with the edit button.

Let us know what happened to the hood springs.

They are not going far, unless stolen, even you broke one or both.

They are easy to install or remove without tools with your hood in the stand up position.

__________________
You can get farther with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile.

1984 300D
1985 300CD
1980 300SD
1993 SL500

signs of alien abduction...Check to see if a probe of some type (or the springs) was pushed up its tail pipe. Sounds strange to me!!!

The springs probably unhooked from the hood and are lying in the water drain wells where they attach at the other end.

Mark

__________________
1984 300TD Wagon, 407,800 mi (current daily driver)
1985 300DT Sedan, 330,000 mi (gone to that great autobahn in the sky)

Both of mine came unhooked last week when the hood was in the full vertical postition. The springs become completely loose at that point and fell off the hood hinge. They still were attached back at the body and were laying in the drain wells. and at first glance were hard to see while holding the hood myself halfway up looking around.

__________________
Adam Lumsden
(83) 300D
Vice-President of the MBCA International Stars Section

when i put my hood verticle (which i still find very interesting) and then relaese it to lower it .. the springs pop very loudly.. but havent popped off yet.. when that happens that will be a fun day

funny thing. my mom has a brand new chevy equinox and its hood doesnt raise it self when you release the latch on the grill .. i love my benz

I love you.

__________________
1982 240D.
My name is Michael, and I am an 18 year old binge-drinkin', cigar-smokin', novel-writin', all around unsavory and unnattractive guy. I tell long-winded stories, and I only shave once a week, although I've had to do it every day since I was 16.

Please, do remove me.

If somebody stole them, look for blood stains on the grille or corners of the hood

__________________
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/7...144c3fc1dc.jpg