Put on a second hand bonnet today, the bonnet was from a 2007 ST so same as my car, I appreciate not everything is made the same though.

Anyway I have spent 2 hours trying to align it and I am no further forward.

As you look at the car the top of the bonnet near the windscreen is down on one side and up on the other but no matter what I adjust I just can't get it straight, also one side has a bigger gap than the other.

The hinges are driving me insane, with the bonnet up, which way do you need to move the bonnet to get the gap to shut between the bonnet and the wing?

Am I being too picky? Just feels like the bonnet is wonky

Been thinking about this, is it better to loosen all the nuts and then adjust the bonnet? As I have just been doing one side at a time

Got it sorted, needed to loosen all four bolts, not try and do a side at a time!

Love it when a question is asked and answered, well done buddy, good answer for future users...

Thanks 🙂 Was getting on a bit last night after messing around with it for a couple of hours, wasn't thinking straight(no pun intended) , came back fresh this morning all sorted in 5 mins 🙂

6 hours ago, jonj1611 said:

Thanks 🙂 Was getting on a bit last night after messing around with it for a couple of hours, wasn't thinking straight(no pun intended) , came back fresh this morning all sorted in 5 mins 🙂

i need to do this to mine it been out of bonk for long time.any more instructions on that please

This is the way I did it, it maybe wrong but it worked for me. I loosened all the nuts on the bonnet only slightly, enough so you could move the bonnet with pulling but not enough that the bonnet can move by itself. I then put some cloth over the catch to stop the bonnet from closing and I laid the bonnet back down. I had a helper(my son) on one side of the bonnet with a hand on the rear part near the windscreen and one hand at the front and I was on the other side doing the same. We then moved the bonnet to the correct position, literally took like a minute, made sure the shutlines were all ok then he lifted the bonnet up slightly and I got a socket in there to secure one nut each side so it wouldn't move, bonnet fully up and tighten all nuts. If like me you changed bonnet then adjust the rubber stops at the front to lower or heighten the front of the bonnet.

Now its nice and straight again 🙂

12 hours ago, jonj1611 said:

This is the way I did it, it maybe wrong but it worked for me. I loosened all the nuts on the bonnet only slightly, enough so you could move the bonnet with pulling but not enough that the bonnet can move by itself. I then put some cloth over the catch to stop the bonnet from closing and I laid the bonnet back down. I had a helper(my son) on one side of the bonnet with a hand on the rear part near the windscreen and one hand at the front and I was on the other side doing the same. We then moved the bonnet to the correct position, literally took like a minute, made sure the shutlines were all ok then he lifted the bonnet up slightly and I got a socket in there to secure one nut each side so it wouldn't move, bonnet fully up and tighten all nuts. If like me you changed bonnet then adjust the rubber stops at the front to lower or heighten the front of the bonnet.

Now its nice and straight again 🙂

cheers will give it a go