[Shotimes] Trunk latch issue

[Kevin M. Bisch]

Ron,

By any chance, were you the guy on the list a while back who was going to 
pop his trunk at 140 MPH to test the amount of downforce the spoiler makes??

:)

That is a strange problem you've got there.

--Kevin




At 09:55 PM 4/14/2003 -0400, Ron Porter wrote:
>This is to see if anyone else has had this weird problem, I had not seen it
>before.
>
>Last weekend, in the middle of the ice storm, I unlocked my trunk with the
>key, and as it opened, the whole latch fell off the trunk lid! Having other
>stuff to worry about, I drove around a few days with a bungee cord holding
>it down. Upon closer inspection, there were two jagged holes on the lid
>where the bolts should go. Further inspection shows the bolts still attached
>to the latch mechanism.
>
>The bolts are rectangular (sorta like pieces of trident gum), and my guess
>is that they are tacked-welded to the lid. Mine broke free, and left the big
>holes. I ended up getting some big washers, which I inserted inside the lid,
>and used the old nuts behind that. I've got it to where it will stay down
>and release with the lever (after a bunch of fiddling). The key won't work,
>but I believe I thought of why, in that the tack-welded nuts kept the latch
>spaced away from the trunklid, now I have it flush and the little lever is
>probably binding. I'll space it out some tomorrow.
>
>It's always somethin'!!
>
>Ron Porter
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