I would like to open the hood. I pulled the lever and heard the expected release. The hood did not budge. I tried pressing on it. What is the procedure to open the hood, given that I have already pulled the hood-lever?
And now if you touch the hood release lever there's nothing but play so mechanical are undone ? Rust belt car ? Damaged front end as in noticable ?
If the cable didn't brake(break?), it's likely the latch is stuck. Sometimes "popping" the hood with the side of your fist it might pop it loose. Sometimes pulling up on it a little then popping it will release it. It could also be a little out of alignment and it's snagging. After you get it open, use some spray grease on all the moving parts and around the hook on the hood.
Yep, I had to bang on the hood for it to pop up. Overtime the latch becomes sticky, so it won’t release as if it was new.
The plastic seal gasket on the outer edge between the hod cover and engine bay can be stuck when pulling the hood open lever. Pull the lever and then physically grab the hood right before the seal and pull the hood up, you will hear the unpeeling sound of the gasket and it will lift.
I took a look at the hood latch on ours yesterday, noticed there's a second release tab and guide, on the underside of the latch. That one you need to more the opposite direction, since it's on the underside of the pivot point. Pretty sure it's for use with right-hand drive models. You could tie a string to that, run through the adjacent guide slot, then maybe find a way to snake it down to the underside of the car, for use if the regular cable broke or seized.
