Interior hood release broke out around mounting bolt. Temporary mounted release but still can not release hood. No opening problems until now. How do I get the open?

You can get a bonnet (hood) release at Dealers, some major autoparts stores and Salvage yards.

Carparts.com is good for Salvaged parts shipped to your door.

The How-to-do area is not always easy to determine. Best way is to go to a Salvage yard and view similar vehicles for how it goes together.

Sometimes you can sneak a socket between the grille features and undo the mounting bolts under the hood. These things are deliberately designed to provide security against theft.

I found some that had rear hinge bolts which could be undone with the hood in place. I found others where the grille could be removed with a phillips screwdriver from the front. Others as I mentioned required removing the mounting plate through the grille slots. The mounting plate had the intact lock mechanism on it and the hood opened with the mounting plate dangling, still locked in place.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice a cheap part to gain access. If the looks do not matter, break off parts of the grille.

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Remove both headlights and mounting cans. There are two bolts on each side that can be removed using a 13mm socket. The one bolt goes straight up and is hidden but with socket 3" extention and 3/8 drive rachet it can be removed. The other bolt is visible at the top outside corner of the opening for the headlight in the cowl. You may need to remove some material over the bolt from the cowl for better accessand then use 13mm socket (shallow well) with atleast 9" of extension to remove this bolt. The hood can then be opened as the latching bars and springs will come up with the hood and then can be released from the latches.

1. Locate the interior hood-release lever under the dashboard on the driver's side of the interior of the car.
   

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   Lift up and toward you on the hood release lever. The lever is connected to a cable that releases the hood. The hood will pop up about 1/2 inch when you pull the lever.
   

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   Move to the front of the car and locate the exterior hood-release lever under the front of the hood. It is located near the middle of the vehicle, just beyond where the front edge of the hood meets the body. Lift up on the inner lever.
   

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   Lift up on the edge of the hood while holding the inner lever in place. When the hood is up, find the hood prop and raise it, setting its tip in the hood-prop mount on the hood, to hold the hood up while you work in the engine bay.
   

Read more: How to Open the Hood on a Mitsubishi Endeavor ' eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6301122_open-hood-mitsubishi-endeavor.html#ixzz16Ou5FhQF

Instrument Panel and Pad REMOVAL & INSTALLATION

1. Disconnect the negative battery cable.
2. If so equipped, unfasten the inside hood release handle.
3. Remove the steering wheel and the lower steering column cover.
4. Remove the glove box, switch panel and console. Fig. 1: Loosen the retaining nut to unfasten the inside hood release handle
   Fig. 2: If necessary, remove the dash mounted speaker covers to access hidden instrument panel bolts
   Fig. 3: Due to space limitations, some bolts are best removed with an open end or box wrench
   Fig. 4: Other bolts are easily removed with a socket
   
   
5. Remove the meter (gauge) hood, heater control panel mounting screws and separate the heater controls from the instrument panel frame. Remove the combination meter.
6. Remove the air duct(s) and the steering shaft mounting bracket bolts. Allow the column to lower.
7. Disconnect and label the meter wiring. Unfasten the mounting bolts and remove the crash pad and instrument panel. Fig. 5: Some of the instrument panel attaching bolts are hidden behind removable trim covers or plugs. Carefully pry off the cover . . .
   Fig. 6: . . . then remove the bolts with a socket
   Fig. 7: The glove box must be removed to unfasten some of the instrument panel retaining bolts
   Fig. 8: Other retaining bolts are accessible with the meter hood and combination meter removed
   To install:
   
8. Position and fasten the crash pad and instrument panel, being careful to route the wiring correctly. Attach the meter wiring to its appropriate connections.
9. Raise the steering column to its normal operating position and install the steering shaft mounting bracket bolts. Connect the air ducts.
10. Install the combination meter. Install the heater controls into the instrument panel frame with the mounting screws. Attach the meter hood.
11. Install the console, switch panel and glove box.
12. Install the steering wheel column cover and steering wheel.
13. If applicable, attach the inside hood release handle.
14. Connect the negative battery cable.

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You have to gain access from underneath with a socket wrench and long extensions to take off the top part of the release that is mounted to the underneath of the hood.

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.

Have you tried lubricating, or spraying mechanism where hood latches in with WD-40 or similar, to see if latch is obviously releasing & may be slightly seized. is the handle & cable that you pull to open the hood appear slack or sloppy ?

Someone just successfully helped me with a similar problem. IF the cable is Not broken, ie: still taunt when one pulls the hood release lever in the car, then the latch under the hood is simply stuck. Try this. Have someone bounce/press down on the front center of the hood where the latch is located to relieve spring tension. At the same time have someone pull the Hood Release lever inside the car. This may pop open the front hood. Then after the hood opens spray WD40 on the hood latch to rid the rust which likely is the cause of the problem. BTW...don't know what you mean about the Oil Light comes on. You don't need the engine turned on to open up the front hood, at least not on my model (2door sedan).

1. After loosening the hood hinge (A) mounting bolt, adjust the hood (B) by moving it up or down, or right or left. 2. Adjust the hood height by turning the hood overslam bumpers (C). 3. After loosening the hood latch (D) mounting bolts, adjust the hood latch by moving it up or down, or right or left.