1995 Honda Civic hood latch

1995 HONDA CIVIC
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CARERE
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1995 Honda Civic Manual

Is it safe to remove or disable a broken hood latch and replace it with hood pins? The car is salvage title, using oil and not worth the $500 to replace the latch system. I need to be able to put oil in it periodically in order to keep driving it while I shop for a new vehicle.

Carere
Nov 1, 2009 at 12:46 AM
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KHLOW2008
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Hi Carere,

There should be no problem with that.

In fact hood pins are better than latches as they are visible and easily monitored.
Nov 1, 2009 at 8:47 AM