Fady
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- Sep 9, 2005
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- S213 E63, BMW X4 M40i & BMW Z4 28i
Another brilliant innovation that is likely to become a long term pain in the butt!
The premise here is that, if you hit a pedestrian, sensors are triggered and the back of the bonnet rises by 50mm at the far corners to cushion the impact. Not hit anyone (or anything) yet in 30 years of driving...though my motto is you are only one accident away from the next one.
Noticed today whilst washing the car that the gap on the passenger side is way bigger than the one on the driver side. Wifey informs me that it has always been like that (and that she has mentioned it to me before) as she says it looks crooked when she drives by it in her own car. So I can fit a finger in the gap between the bonnet and wing on that side and there is no gap whatsoever on t'other side. Owner's manual claims that you can re-position the bonnet if it has been triggered - essentially by raising it and wiggling around a bit. Tried to adjust it myself by doing so but just made matters worse. Bonnet can become misaligned enough that it is difficult to close and front of car then looks like a camel chewing, if you get my drift. Managed to get it back to roughly the position it started out in, but I guess it is going to need a trip to the workshop to have it done properly. Grrr!
The premise here is that, if you hit a pedestrian, sensors are triggered and the back of the bonnet rises by 50mm at the far corners to cushion the impact. Not hit anyone (or anything) yet in 30 years of driving...though my motto is you are only one accident away from the next one.
Noticed today whilst washing the car that the gap on the passenger side is way bigger than the one on the driver side. Wifey informs me that it has always been like that (and that she has mentioned it to me before) as she says it looks crooked when she drives by it in her own car. So I can fit a finger in the gap between the bonnet and wing on that side and there is no gap whatsoever on t'other side. Owner's manual claims that you can re-position the bonnet if it has been triggered - essentially by raising it and wiggling around a bit. Tried to adjust it myself by doing so but just made matters worse. Bonnet can become misaligned enough that it is difficult to close and front of car then looks like a camel chewing, if you get my drift. Managed to get it back to roughly the position it started out in, but I guess it is going to need a trip to the workshop to have it done properly. Grrr!
