I bought my 05 G35 about a month ago now. Yesterday i had to disconnect the battery to install my GPS. When I opened my hood I noticed something very odd. My hood rubs the passenger fender corner when opening. Its so bad that the hood literally stops about a third of the way open as it scrapes the fender well. The car had a clean carfax with no accidents reported and the Infiniti dealer certified it. Is this something that just happens to some G's or do you think it was involved in an accident?

Im going to take it into the dealer wed. of next week. This better be something covered under warranty or im going to have a damn fit!

 

Looks like your hood needs to be aligned.

 

What year do you have? This is a known issue. Many have had it aligned.

 

It is an auto 2005. My worry is that the dealer wont want to paint it. Have others had this problem and the dealer re-aligned it AS WELL AS repainted it?

 

Someone had the hood off at one time and didnt take the time to align it right. Its easy, just loosen the 4 bolts, get an extra hand and move it around and close the hood lightly everytime you make an adjustment until its right

 

Your hinges are starting to bend. Search for a thread on it under my name and you'll find out. This is a "common" problem. Aligning your hood will only do so much. I would get new hinges installed. I had a small chip and fixed it with touch up paint and it looks perfect. I would totally stop opening your hood until you get it fixed though to minimize further damage.

 

holy cow! i have a 2004.5 5AT and mine has the exact same paint chip in the same spot. All this time i thought that some rogue rock on the freeway flew up and hit it in just the right spot (albeit and odd spot at that)! Now i know i'll have to definitely look into getting new hood hinges.

 

Yes the dealer put in new hinges and sent it out to get painted

 

i seriously doubt that is gonna be covered under warranty. Its no big deal, just use some touch up paint, with it being right on the edge like that, you will never notice it.

 

if this is as common as a problem as it sounds, and it is due to faulty hinges seizing and then bending (mine just started this) then it should be covered as it is a fault in the item itself causing the damange and not user error.

That is my take on it.

 

Wow I've never heard of that problem. Looks like a little bit of rust is settling in...hopefully you get it fixed soon before it gets worse.

 

I leave for the dealer in an hour. I'll let you guys know how they decide to handle this...

 

Good Luck... and yes it is an easy fix... also putting a touch of "touch up" as someone else said will work fine on an edge like that. It should not be too noticable at all.

 

i bet if i go look i have this same spot too....

 

after 75 years of making cars nissan can't even get a hood hinge or the radio working right.