broken hood cable 97 cabby

[Geraint Lloyd]

It's the same style as the wife's 200, so the long cable with the 2 white
plastic trumpets that pull together bending those crappy straight spring
things toward each other and popping the 2 pins on either side. 

I have got into this by poking a hook made from a bent wire coat hanger,
through the grill and hooking the spring. But then I cand see the spring
through the grill on the 200. The other solution might be to go from
underneath the car, but it depends how much crap is in the way. On the 200
it's a non starter, but it can be done on the golf.......

Having battled with this one for hours, I tied a length of single core 30A
mains cable around each release spring and "hid" the cable behind the grill.

Next time I just have to fish the flex out and give it a yank. 

Geraint
 

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of spectrum
Sent: 05 August 2008 06:22
To: quattro list
Subject: broken hood cable 97 cabby

Hi gang, does anyone know a good (read damage free) way to open the hood on
a B4 car when one of the latches isn't disengaging? When the handle is
pulled inside the car, the passenger side opos ok but the drivers side
doesn't budge. Any suggestions?
 
TIA,
Todd
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