I am loving these hood latches. I would love them more, but I had a small issue with them which caused them to be a 4 star (should be 4.5 but we can't seem to rate them that way) instead of a 5. A couple of weeks back I bought a hood bra and went to put it on and found I was not able to get the passenger side latch to release. The latches had been on for a month or so and that side had a little bit of corrosion on it that made it so the pin would not rotate. I wound up having to tap on it a little with a screwdriver handle. At first I thought I might have adjusted the set bolts a little too tight, but after getting it apart I could see the corrosion. A wee bit disappointed in that. I wound up using some greaseless chain lube on the pin (both sides) and stuck it all back together. I have checked both sides almost daily to see if either are seizing again and so far they are not. But I find it a little annoying that this issue came up. They are exposed to the elements obviously, one would assume they would have been engineered to not be susceptible to this problem.
On a positive side, I have yet to see anyone else in town rolling around with these on their Jeep. Just the way I like it. :)
Posted by Mike (St. George, UT) / August 13, 20132009 Jeep Wrangler