My mechanic tells me the hood release cable is broke in two places, inside the cab of the car and at the hood release latch. He wants to break the front grille to get inside. Before allowing this, I am trying to find alternative ways. Can you help?
It's not easy so ill give you my best ( cuz it happened to me ) try to find where cable goes to hood latch if you can use a coat hanger with a sharp bend in it like a hook and find where it connects to hood release in grill hook it and pull at some point you may have to crawl under it to find cable. next one is if you can see that hood release cable is still hooked up try to get it where you can grab it with VICE GRIPS and squeeze it as tight as possible and pull hard, if this dosent work do you know for sure your self that cable is broken in two places find where and use VICE GRIPS . hope some of this helps let me know thanks Woody.
SOURCE: 1987 190d mercedes, hood release cable broke
crawl under the front of your car and by sight or feel find the broken cable and pull on it to open your hood.also it the cable is too short feel if you can find the lever from under the car to release to hood.
SOURCE: I have a 2002 mercedes s430 and I pull the hood
reach in with long needle nose pliers grab whats left.
SOURCE: c320 hood release handle won't pop the hood
I don't think there is a day that goes by in the shop where we don't get at least one vehicle that is doing this. Just use two people. One to pull the cable release and the other to slap the hood with their hand and tell it to cooperate. Usually, just a little "jarring" with the cable pulled will get it to pop up.
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