Hood hard to stay closed

[1-3-2-4]

I think it's because it's the first time it's been down in the 20's so.. I went to check my oil today and went to close the hood and it popped back up, long story short after about 7 min of trying and then about a min of trying to clean a little bit of the gunk from the latch. I thought the hood was closed but it popped back up on the highway so i got off and went to the park and finally the hood locked down.

would some white lithium grease help here?

[richysteele]

cant hurt to try. I dont see why the weather wasn't an issue in the matter. It was arctic in greenwich today!

[legacy98gt]

same thing happend to me i just cleaned it really good when i cleaned my engine bay with some of hat engine bright stuff it seemed to work pretty good, i bet that grease would work good, or else put in hood pins lol

[2.5GT]

Check and spray some silicone grease on the hood latch cable itself. Sometimes it get stuck in placed, pulling the cable to open.

[impreza_GC8]

I've had to take some big pliers to the part of the latch that is mounted to the hood. Sometimes things just shift a little bit.

[Huffer]

here's a pro mechanic tip I learned while I interned at a garage. Hit the latch mechanism with PB blaster, liberally soaking every part and use a big flat head screwdriver to push down on the latch while spraying it. Wipe as much old gunk off with a clean rag as possible. Then, use some white lithium grease on the mechanism, while activating the latch and the cable. Don't spray too much, just enough.