How to open the hood lock

Non-standard ways to open the hood in an unforeseen situation, experienced motorists know no obstacle, but such a common problem, like a locking of the castle and complete illiteracy in their permission to be resolved, significantly complicates the life of a novice car owner. We give small tips to help get into the non-opening hood.

We find out the reason for the jamming of the mechanism by cautiously pulling the hood for each side and thereby define that it may prevent the discovery, perhaps the reason in the tongues that are located along the edges of the castle.

Problems from the spring lock solve the following way: Press the hood directly and sharp movements directly in the place under which the castle hides, and behind the wheel will put the assistant capable of pulling the hood opening lever at the same time. The lock is free, when the spring is popped up, straightened.

We heat the car on the overpass so to have access to the place under the hood from the front bumper. We climb under the car, visually find the lock of the opening of the hood, reach and reject the lock tongue with a long screwdriver or other suitable fixture.

We unscrew the bolts from the radiator grid, remove it. In the extreme case, we strip it, feel the castle with your hand and open it, or remove the castle myself, unscrewing the bolts from it.

Problems with the drive of an automatic hood opening lock, or rather with a cliff of a cable, we solve it by replacing it to a new one, but pre-find the break place of the break, sacrificing the front panel of the car on the lever location area to open the hood.

The frozen hood together with the mechanical lock heat the special means for defrosting by applying a few drops, we water with hot water or warming the hot hairdryer, only after such manipulations, it is necessary to blow the lock with air.

These native ways of opening the hood, naturally, with a muffled engine, are most often used on domestic cars. We also recommend not neglecting assistants, because such an unpredictable element of the car body has a property all the time to close.