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re: E12 Hood Latch

>
>I have a question for all of the E12 owners out there,
>do any of you know the correct method for adjusting
>the hood latch so that you don't have to slam it
>about 100 times before it closes?  The Haynes
>manual mentions something about an alignment hole,
>but haven't had a good look yet.  I tried manually
>sliding the latch up and down (shooting in the
>dark really!), and have lubricated all respective
>parts.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated
>as this has become the number one most frustrating
>little pain in the #$%#$%#.

All we used to have to do to those and E21 hood latches was shoot the hell
out of the catch with WD40 or CRC or others such rust inhibitors/lubricants
to flush out the crud.  Always seemed to work fine for me.

- -Phil Marx  BMWCCA #6021