do you open your hood when you get home?

[Radical!]

When the weather is really hot I make it a point to open my hood when I get home. Our garage is in front of the maids room so I need to let the heat escape quickly. I also have a problem with cats, when the engine is cool, cats refrain from hanging out on the car's hood.

[ess]

I do for 2 reasons:

1) Prevent critters from having a free, warm lodging.

I just started doing this a couple of weeks ago. Bwisit. A group of cats decided to turn my car into a motel. Doon sila natutulog.
Last week, they even had *** on the hood of my car leaving a lot of deep scratches :mad2:.

[sirmykel]

i always do that every night. pero sa office ndi kasi nasa kalsada kasi hehehe
para matanggal yung heat ng mas mabilis since pataas ang akyat ng singaw ng init kaya
binibigyan ko ng way para maalis sila. pero kapag tatakpan na isasara na namen

[hominid]

Pag kelangan ko wash buong car right after using. Saka if I feel na sluggish cya dahil sobra init ng panahon. Minsan lang un.

[compact]

dati ginagawa ko ito, ngayon, hindi na,

[hungryalien]

I don't get this. Whether it's easy or fast driving, engine temperature will be more or less the same...

pag normal lang.. water temp is around 90-100 degree.. pag hatawan na, minsan umaabot ng 105-110 degrees (where the fans kick in and cools down to around 95). same with oil temp, from normal of around 90 degrees, goes to 100 or even 110 degrees.

actually, by the time the car is in the garage, its more or less around 90-100 degrees. but gusto ko lang malabas yun init so that those plastic parts dont get heat up too much.

[X-isle]

uhm nope... ayoko na dagdagan ang pag ka o.c. ko haha

[siacojin]

yes im doing that simply because i want the heat of my engine went out fast.. after that kukumutan ko na.. anyway i dont know if cause yun kaya nag fade/crack yung paint sa hood. imo, i dont think na related yun, kasi kahit naman nakapark yung kotse natin sa initan di naman agad nagbabago ang kulay and besides ang mga hood natin is designed to cover the engine.. well, lets hear more from our gurus..

same with me. pagdating kasi sa bahay gabi na dapat lumamig agad ang engine para makumutan bago matulog, yung garage kasi 1 sasakyan lang kaya icover ng roof so yung isang sasakyan lang namin ang covered, yung car ko under the open sky at hamog kaya kailangang kumutan. pero ginagawa ko lang to pag minamadali ko lumamig, kung may time naman na lumamig ang engine bago kumutan, hindi ko na binubuksan ang hood

[m777]

i do this everytime i get home. para lumamig kagad ung engine.

[[archie]]

hmm never really do this. paguwi, lock then ok na. havent really experience cracking of paint because of this. wala naman siguro effect toh (i hope).