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My car's cable to pop the hood was frozen in place due to sub-zero weather. And the batery was dead. Can't start the car without getting a jump first. It was a ring of hopelessness. Eventually me and friend figured out how to open the hood.
ANSWER: If you look in the grill you should actually see the hood latch mechanism and the cable coming out of it. Now the cable has two parts which I'll call the wire and the sleeve. (The wire runs inside the sleeve) Take a long screwdriver and pry the sleeve away from the piece holding it in place. The wire should still be connected to whatever it's connected to. Now just pull the cable with a pliers or channel lock and it'll open.
Now this is on a 2001 P.T. Cruiser, non-special edition. I'm not sure if this same procedure will work on newer models or Limited and Touring editions.
2. I had the same problem but the cable had come loose from the catch. You can look thru the grill and see where the cable goes and just behind it is where the cable end goes. I sprayed it with WD40 and used a metal rod with a hook on the end, inserted it into the hole and pulled, opening it with no problem. You could also remove either the 2 bolts holding the top of the latch to the hood or the 2 holding the receiver to the crossmember, these 2 are not bolts but threaded rod with nuts on them and they are a bitch to get to and one blocks the removal of the upper bolt and I going to replace them with regular bolts in case this happens again
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