I drive a 1991 Buick Park Avenue and I can't get the hood to open on my car. It overheated yesterday and I need to pop the hood to see the problem, but the hood won't come up. I tried the release lever and it is working but the hood won't come up. I don't want to break the hood trying to open it. What can I do??

I would have someone hold the hood release latch while bumping the front of the hood to try to bump the hood loose. Once opened, be sure to lubricate the hood latch under the hood and also lubericate the safety latch as well to prevent this in the future. Use white lithium grease to lube all latches. Be sure to work the latch a couple dozen times after lubricating a few times before closing the hood to ensure it is working properly.

The only thing you can do is--use a lot of extensions and take off hood latch from under front of car, underneath hood latch. good-luck!!

You will have to push the release latch to one side, once push and cleared you can lift the hood, check the adjustments on the release latch or it may need to be lubed, so it can release as designed.<!-- from fixya rte -->

Hi. Usually hoods came with safety latch that will prevent your hood from opening if hood release fails while drivng. Try to locate the latch under the hood. You can either push it to the side or up. What it does is it just release the hook.
Have a good one!