Your grill will have 4-8 T-15 or T-20 torx bit screws holding it on. Take these out, and take the grill off. You will see the hood latch behind it, and should be able to figure it out from there.
My Century has a very tempermental hood release, to get it open I have to hit the hood on the left side, much like the Fonz playing a Juke box, and it will pop open.
TAke it to the body shop as they have to do it when a car is wrecked.
how do you open the hood on a 1992 buick regal if the cable is broke
?need to replace the cable to a 1979 buick regal, the emergency release mechanism wire broke. Don't know how to release the brake?
Use pliers and pull the cable...
I had a similar problem. On mine, the cable broke right inside the car...right at the lever. There was still plenty of cable sticking out so I just grab it with pliers and pull. If yours is broken in any other place, it will need to be replaced.
A 2004 Buick does not have a speedometer cable. The speedometer signal comes from electronic sensors.
Shift Cable
cable broke release latch for the hood can't open it
if the cable broke at the handle inside the car there will be a black cable with steel cable inside cut the black cable back so you see the steel cable get a par of visegrip pliers and pole the steel cable til the hood opens.
You can take the front grill off, with some T20 screws on the front of the car. You will see the hood release cable, and the mechanism that it attaches to. Just look at it, and you will be able to figure out how to open it from there.
Remove the grill
It should be on the transmission where the shift rod or cable attaches.