02 986 How To Open Front Trunk With Dead Battery No Emergency cable & Broken latch ?

[Mark_T]

Universal broken latch bypass tool. Make sure you get the metric one.

[itsnotanova]

I had one car come in where I couldn't locate the loop on the end of the cable even after removing the wheel liner. I had to flash a light up under the headlight area just to see a small section of the cable towards the front of the car. I used a coat hanger to reach the cable and it opened right up for me. It's the only metal cable up there

[volk986]

After much looking everywhere... No cable found. How to open without cable ?? Cut the latch ? and if this is my next option how to do so, without damage to hood.

[Jamesp]

Originally Posted by volk986

After much looking everywhere... No cable found. How to open without cable ?? Cut the latch ? and if this is my next option how to do so, without damage to hood.

You have a cable. If it is not tucked up cleverly between the right headlight housing and the outside of the frunk, it has been moved. It may be hanging down by the horns, it may be near the tow hook hole. Frustrating as it is, finding the cable is a far better option than cutting structure.

[Jamesp]

I checked the front latch to better answer your question. It is buried in structure, so no popping the trunk open easily. Even if the metal skin on the hood were removed, it would not be a simple task to operate the latch to get the hood open. It's as if the designers of the latch intentionally made it difficult to pop open. Really the easiest way to get the hood open would be to cut a square out of the hood over the latch, cut the exposed latch itself from the hood, then get a new hood from Woody. If you try to cut in any other way you'd go through the front plastic bumper and then through the metal structure that holds the latch, which cannot be easily replaced.