i did a search to no avail. basically i recently installed hood dampers on my car and the work great but i noticed my hood is like not centered its closed to the passside this caused it to rub in the back it was perfect before. is their a away to aling or get it back centered i tried loosening it and just pushing it but i don't know if their is a specific way to aling it. any help would be much appreciated. thanks in advance

Its not the hood you need adjusting. It's the fenders.
Your fenders have 3 bolts on the top edge under your hood.
Undo them and you can push/pull the fender in or out as much a 1CM.
get it to about a 5mm gap between the hood, nice and even from top edge to bottom and it should be fine.
Do the same on both sides.
I have the same gas struts as you (but just 1 side) and I have no rubbing.

can i see your hood dampers installed, this might be related to my issue. i need the pic on the hood side cus the bracket keeps rubbing and scratching on my hood, plus the bracket has a hard time sitting flat.

I havent got a clear shot of it but it's the same as yours.
Here's 2 pics which you can just about see it in both my cars.



and here's the link to the ones I bought.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT
BTW in the ebay ad it shows a square plate but in reality it's different. More rectangular.
HTH

Ray

This post has been edited by yellowchinaman: Sep 28, 2009 - 8:36 AM

my bracket scrapes the hoods paint it doesn't have spacing and even when I get it to mount, it hits the fender as i close the hood. sucks will try again when there is daylight

thanks ill try that but the thing is it wasn't that close b4 i installed the hood dampers. but ill try that thanks.