Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
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Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
Anyone got a method, the 19TRS I am buying seems to have snapped and the vendor cant get it open! I will be taking tools and a hopefully a couple of well heel'ed BX'ers along!
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
take out headlight, reach in, toggle linkage.
Managed to do this in a car park in the lakes many moons ago, but it was a bit fiddly, and drew blood!
Managed to do this in a car park in the lakes many moons ago, but it was a bit fiddly, and drew blood!
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
Thanks Vanny, duely noted!
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
how do you take out the headlight without opening the bonnet??
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
I'm not sure we should answer that one on a publicly accessible forum...
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
Pull the inside edge forward, easier on gfrp bumpers but scratches the paint work. Hardly rocket science, and the topic is covered by the Haynes manual should anyone ever need the information in a hurry.
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
I just brake hard.nige wrote:how do you take out the headlight without opening the bonnet??
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
Turns out the cable was just very stiff and needed a bit of persuasion.
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Re: Bonnet Opening with a busted cable
Kitch wrote:I just brake hard.nige wrote:how do you take out the headlight without opening the bonnet??
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