Bent hood, reduced mpg

so a few years ago, my brother was driving my Prius and rear ended someone. The mechanic that repaired the engine left the same hood on the car, and there's a huge gap on both sides and the front (pictures will be added). What I'm wondering is, is there a way I can seal this gap off so that my hood doesnt try to fly away? Maybe some type of "puffy" weather strip seal? I tried using tape (a huge mistake, dont do it..) and that worked great, but when I needed to do an oil change, it was impossible to get it all off.

I was able to find a hood for my car on a parts website, but it's a completely different color, and am not sure what exact color my car is. It's a silver/gray to me.

I'm going to be going on a road trip for about 1100 miles next week, and would love for some advice from the pros on here.

 

Yes it goes down. But the hood is bent in 3 or 4 different places on the under side. I will take pictures after I get off of work tonight. The new hood from the scrap yard costs about $50 to $100 depending on if I turn in the current bent hood. Which is what I'd probably do. The only thing is that the scrap yard is about 2 hours away from my home, one way Haha. But it might increase the value of my car, and eelldefinitely the mpg. So I'll look into it.

If I were to buy a new hood, would there be a way to put the weather seal on it to help stop water from getting in the engine bay, and to maybe increase mpg? Maybe I should just do it and let you all know if it works?

Thanks for your replies!

 

The hood does latch properly. I can try to record a video of it, post it on YouTube and then post the link to what's happening on here.

It's just that at higher speeds (50mph and higher) the hood sometimes tries to fly off. And I just bought a new latch from Amazon a few months ago, and that has definitely controlled the hood a lot better. I should still have the old one (the repair shop chopped it at the mounting holes and used 4 steel plates to hold it in). Since I swapped the two latches, the "ballooning" or floating effect is gone.

Sorry if I repeated myself haha. It's been a busy day..

Thanks for your help!

Garron

 

That's what I was thinking of doing.

As for the hood and frame, the frame was repaired, and was minor damage. The front bumper was damaged and replaced. The hood should be lower down, but has 3 or 4 dents on the underside. I forgot to take pictures of it last night, but I will tomorrow (I will set a reminder on my phone haha).

But yeah, it drives straight and everything, it's just that the hood doesn't look "natural".

Thanks for your help everyone!


Garron