Bonnet release cable

[SteveK]

Here's one for you (more of a story than anything)

Anyone had the bonnet release cable snap on them.

Mine did yesterday at 07:30 in the morning as I was due to go to a race meet Ahhhhhhh

It snapped right at the nipple on the bonnet catch (didn’t know it at the time).

Conundrum: how on earth do you get the bonnet open if that happens? :mad:

Answer:- Jack the car up, crawl underneath, reach your hand up on the starter motor side, underneath the catch mounting bracket there is a hole (bout 1.5") if you have long relatively slim arms you can just get you finger into the hole and operate the catch.

Has to be the most frustrating thing that has happened to me so far, mainly because the engine was quiet warm, it's dark, its tight and I'm late.

Next problem is how to repair said cable (here in the UK that sort of thing isn’t easy to obtain) on mine the very last inch had thinned and snapped leaving the nipple separated from the cable

I used a copper ferrule from an electrical crimp, crimped it on using a quality ratchet crimping tool, then melted some lead around it to form a blob which I them trimmed to match the original nipple.

Don’t know how long it will last but the cable doesn’t, A. look easy to obtain, B look easy to replace.

What a bloody fiasco

[Alfadog]

ROFL

I think a lot of us have experienced that same pain mate

[2-4-T-Z-MAN]

At least it sounds as if yours snapped at home or someplace where you could fix it.

Mine snapped at an out of town car show.

I had popped the hood, or bonnet as you call it, the night before the show to flip the kill switch for the battery.

The next morning the &%$#(*%@(*& cable broke.

Same scenario to open it only I used a short screw driver to trip the latch.

Feel your pain brother!!!!!