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Under steering wheel, find and pull the red lever (and yes, it IS difficult to find, but it's there ;-). That will "pop" open the hood slightly. Then, simply lift the hood open all the way; it will rise easily and stay open with the automatic shocks.
To open the hood on the 2000 Beetle if the hood release lever is broken inside the car, you can remove the glove compartment of the vehicle and find the release cable inside the dashboard. Pull the cable to open the hood. You will then need to replace the hood release lever.?æ
Get someone to hold the hood release lever while you pull up on the hood.
Have a helper pull and hold the hood release lever, then use a pry bar to lift the hood enough to get your fingers in to unlatch the release at the front of the hood.
You can open a hood on a 1995 Chrysler LeBaron convertible gtc from the outside if your lever is broken. All you have to do is get a pair of vise grips and pull the cable which will release the hood.
on your lower left side, closest to where parking brake release is a hood release lever, pull it and then there's a tab located in the grille, pull towards you....
If it is just the plastic handle broken, behind that is the cable that opens the hood. Just grab the cable with a pair of pliers and pull. You can probably just replace the inside handle and not have to run a new cable.
"pop" the hood with the in car lever. get a pair of pliars and grab the wire that the plastic hood release was connected to.....this should work!
After pulling the hood release, a plastic lever for the safety latch should protrude from the front grill 2 to 3 inches down just to the left of center. if it doesnt protrude lift the hood a little bit and it should protrude. Pull this lever while lifting the hood and the hood will open. Hope this helps. "G"
Our 2004 Saturn Vue hood release can be opened (if the cable is not broken) by disconnecting the cable from the back of the release lever, grabbing the ball on the end of the cable with some large pliers ("channel locks") and pulling hard. A metal "wire keeper" bracket clamped to the cable end under the hood to serve as a spacer and the release lever works.
Next to impossible. A new release lever will need to be installed. Take it to the Toyota dealer ... they built it, they know how to repair it.
a hood release lever is a lever that releases the hook in the front of the car so it can pop open.