My banged up uncloseable bonnet

[VNCommyBeast]

This is my VN which the previous owner smashed up. I got it looking good on the outside after straightening up the bonnet and then i put a new front bumper on, now the bonnet doesn't close all the way. Can anyone tell me how to straighten it up or is it looking like a new one?
There's some other photos there, i was wondering if the slam panel was in the right place or if i needed to work on that a bit too.
Thanks

[Andrew426]

You can wind the rubber bump stops in and out to adjust.

But your radiator support looks rough as mate, should probably do something about that before next WOF

[VNCommyBeast]

Where are these rubber bump stops mate? Could very well be an adjustment problem.

And yea, the radiator support was the other thing i was worried about it, it lived amongst the belts at the front when i first got the car

[Vt-Brrrlina]

i feel your pain mate i went from this


to this


alot of my alignment problems were the rad support - good luck fixin it

[Andrew426]

The underside of the bonnet

[VNCommyBeast]

i feel your pain mate i went from this


to this


alot of my alignment problems were the rad support - good luck fixin it

yea it sucks ay. your one looks like you were going a bit faster, how fast were you going?
But thanks, i will try my best (hopefully can avoid my panel beater that likes to joy ride his customer cars)

and adjusting the rubber stops, wouldn't that make the bonnet go higher than my side guards?

[Vt-Brrrlina]

nam mine was slow stop start traffic on the freeway - 20 - 30 km/h into a towball...

[Andrew426]

yea it sucks ay. your one looks like you were going a bit faster, how fast were you going?
But thanks, i will try my best (hopefully can avoid my panel beater that likes to joy ride his customer cars)

and adjusting the rubber stops, wouldn't that make the bonnet go higher than my side guards?

Yeah it will, but your bonnet lookes pretty rough anyway.

[VNCommyBeast]

the point of this is how to not make it rough lol

[kitted vp]

i think its a replacement job mate it looks well and truly rooted shouldnt cost all that much

[Vt-Brrrlina]

2nd hand bonnet and rad support wouldnt cost much - my pics above - a whole new front end cost me 600 bucks and 150 to get the rad support welded on

[kitted vp]

you done a nice job too vt-brrrlina!!! they look tuff as those gts kits! and i love the aero kits too i owned a genuine v6 aero for 5 hours and wrote it off being a young dumb idiot i still have nightmares about it!!! not the crash which was pretty bad but the heartbreak of not even getting a photo of it before i crashed it! and i couldnt bring myself to take a photo of it all twisted up all i did was called the insurance company to come and asses it then told them to take it

[VNCommyBeast]

bah i was thinking that might be the case, it only got painted a year or two ago oh well
good to see i'm not the only one that's been in this position :P