How to open the hood in Niva

The opening cable of the hood on Lada Niva and cars of such a modification has the property to burst at the most inopportune moment. In this situation, you can use the advice of the owners of this car and cope on their own, if it is not possible to send a car to a hundred, and whether it is worth it because of such trifles.

Too sunny weather may not allow the extraction of the hood during a torn cable. Take advantage of a dark piece of fabric, preferably the coat to create the effect of darkness when working in the hood area - so the sun glare will not prevent visually assess the degree of repair work and do the necessary manipulations. Also be a flashlight.

The cable broke right at the castle and under the root - weching the coat with a screwdriver rubbed into the grid, which is under the hood on the air intake, thereby freeing access to the lock. Insert a standard thick screwdriver between the second and third springs turns and press towards the driver's seat, weakening it in the mount. Thin screwdriver (20 cm) insert the fastening of the spring itself in the loop and rotate. This action contributes to the fact that the spring will come out of the engagement, it will hang on one of the faces and the hood will open freely.

The cable jumped off the lock - we raise one side of the hood so as to pull the seal. Capture for the location of the castle itself and the strength of the way up. After several manipulations of this plan, the lock must move on the hairpins up the maximum and will be perfectly turned on the gap. Next, make a hook-shaped device in the shape of a hook and try to make a lock lock. Must work.

I burst the cable from the castle, and the reserve under the hood - pushing the cable on the right side, some convenient adaptation. Or on the ventilation grille, bite some partitions, and then put the hook with a hook. The method is not simple, but the result must be achieved.

To eliminate the problems associated with the inability to open the hood of the Niva in the usual way, people resort to various tricks using hair studs, medstruments and other interesting devices, but it is enough to have a screwdriver, a flashlight and a thick wire in the form of a hook in the "right" hands and a good helper nearby.