Re: [DML] Releasing Luggage Compartment Lid

[J <sundiver@xxxx>]

On Thursday 03 January 2002 11:21 pm, you wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there anyone that knows how to open the lid for luggage compartment, if
> the cable comes disconnected while closed? I asked the DOA and they gave me
> instructions to go in through the brake fluid reservoir, but I was
> wondering if there is an easier way to pop the lid.
>

Depends on what you consider easier. I had the cable break on me when the 
luggage compartment was full of stuff, so there was no way I could go in 
through the reservoir cover. What I ended up doing was to pull up gently on 
the corner of the hood near the passinger door just enough so that I could 
slide in a broom stick. With the brook stick I pushed on the metal lever 
under the hood latch (the piece that the cable pulls on), and opened the 
latch. The lever gets pulled toward the drivers side by the cable, so if you
can get the broom stick in from the passinger side and get the end against 
the lever, you can push it open.