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#190436 - 19/01/10 04:40 AM Bugger
benlx Offline
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well you know how it is.........

Have been planning to treat my Fez to a nice change of fluids, New oil and filter, new coolant/anti-freeze, new brake fluid as this is quite old now and most important screen wash :P

setting every thing up to work fast but safely i find is key, well anyways cutting a long story short jacked the car up jumped in to open the bonnet and the cable snapped....... BU%G£R

Now the question is how the hell do i open it with a broken cable/catch

cheers for any help

Benjamin.

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#190437 - 19/01/10 09:51 AM Re: Bugger [Re: benlx]
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...put your arm up, underneath the car and unclip the bonnet I've heard before?

...someone will be along shortly to give you details!


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#190438 - 19/01/10 10:08 AM Re: Bugger [Re: Kaxe]
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You may find, if you remove the front lower grille you may have enough access to just get a ahnd in , mind I doubt it will be easy as your vision is obscured

hope you get it sorted fella.

Phil

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#190439 - 19/01/10 08:59 PM Re: Bugger [Re: Nixon]
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i think this would be a garage job mate, you mean that you cant even release the bonnet from the inside!?
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#190440 - 19/01/10 09:00 PM Re: Bugger [Re: Dan_The_Man]
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If its up on ramps im sure you can do it somehow...I know people have before!
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#190441 - 19/01/10 09:04 PM Re: Bugger [Re: Adam08]
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drive down the road then call the AA
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#190442 - 19/01/10 09:07 PM Re: Bugger [Re: Alex_H]
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and say what Alex?!?!

i drove down the road desided to check my oil on the roadside and the bonnet didnt open?








thinking about it you could hear a noise and try to look and it and break the release...
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Then - White Fiesta ST MR200+
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#190443 - 19/01/10 10:32 PM Re: Bugger [Re: Dan_The_Man]
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I'm sure an excuse can be thought of

"My car temp went up, went to check the water and couldn't open the bonnet. Thank you very much AA man. Oh? it all toped up ok? I must've made a mistake in the reading then. Bye."

Something like that
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#190444 - 20/01/10 01:26 AM Re: Bugger [Re: Alex_H]
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or you could say "listen you fat, pie eating, porn watching, shower dodging grease monkey....I pay a lot of money for you to drive your ass here so do something useful and sort that out" that should do the trick!
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