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Anyone have any tips or is this normal, the hood of this Hybrid CRV is so delicate I went to check the oil in my car and you know how you push the hood down when you’re done instead of slamming it? I push it down on the center and it caved in and it did come back up by itself but now I have a small dent on my hood has this happened to anyone else it’s not noticeable unless you walk up on it from a certain direction and sun light. So sad how can it be so easily to leave a dent checking oil it’s right on the center where the latch is.

It would be helpful if you could share a photo.

Pending a photo though... should be pretty easy for a local body shop to pop it back, without need for repainting unless you really mangled it. So check with local body shops and see what they say. They just have to remove the heat shield (which probably means new fasteners) and then rub/push the dent

The generation 5 hood IS pretty thin, and it will flex some under pressure of your hand. If someone were to sit or stand on your hood it would most likely deform permanently.

Tip: The hood is not meant to carry any sort of loading... it is there for aerodynamics and to provide some of the total rigidity of the vehicle.

Never in almost 6 years have I dented mine. Then again, I noticed immediately that it flexes so I avoid putting any kind of force on it, much less stack anything heavy on the hood.

 

[williamsji]

I just pushed it down like any person would nothing hard like in did with my other cars. T

As already noted by others, there is NO need to push down on the hood ever.

There is nothing to hold it open other than the long metal bar designed for that purpse. It will close using just the force of gravity from a height of as little as one foot from the hood latch.

 

[williamsji]

Big Box home improvement stores sell suction devices which folks use to move large mirrors or sheets of glass. Buy one of them to see if you can remove that dent. View attachment 157805
Would suggest doing this on a warm day.

Depending on the dent, that might just do the trick. This is where a photo helps us all help the original poster more effectively.

You can also buy a kit from places like Amazon that offer a handful of these for different size/type of dent popping.

The good news is the modern water based paints Honda uses to paint their vehicles appears to be pretty flexible (at least in it's first few years) so worries about cracking the paint are pretty minimal...but care and patience are still prudent.

 

[williamsji]

Ok if someone walks by they won’t see it due to the color of my car, but if you know it’s there you will always see it haha. Not sure if you can see the small dent but I tried to take a photo of it but the color makes it hard to see. I might be able to live with it but i will always know it’s there lol. I will try that suction cup thing idea. View attachment 157817

Photo is not that clear, but if I am seeing the dent properly.. it almost looks like someone jammed their elbow down on the hood in closing it. That might be difficult to pop with a suction device.

Best thing really is to consult a local body shop and get their take on what is needed to fix it. If nothing else, you will get clues on how easy or difficult it will be. If they tell you they can pull that out easily for you with a suction device (and a low repair cost estimate) ... then you know you might be able to do it yourself.

Personally, I would let the pros fix it. Then again.. first scratch, dent or ding in my vehicles.. I always leave it... because of course you are going to get one eventually anyway and the first strike means never worrying about a second strike... because you baby is not pristine any more, so Murphy won't come looking for it to dent it.

 

[williamsji]

Saturn, the plastic car? 🤣

Yeah, but not the hood or trunk tops. Only body quarter panels and door panels were made of impact resistant plastics. Even then, the last round of Saturns largely dropped the plastic panels... becoming with each year just another GM clone, rather than a unique brand in the GM family that actually applied some novel innovations to vehicle design.

I was impressed with their lost-foam engine casting process. They made complex geometries in the engine with little post casting finish and tooling required. The humorous part being when you looked at the exterior casting surface of the engine block, you could actually see the styro-foam surface texture from the lost foam inserts in the aluminum casting.