Need to remove the front grill at the bottom of refrig......there does not seem to be a release lever? Any suggestions?

On most vehicles the hood release is usually located on the door side of one of the foot wells. They are often hidden under the lower edge of the dash as a long plastic pull lever or a smaller round pull button. It will have a small image of a car with the hood open on it. It could be on the drivers OR the passenger side so check both. Open the car door wide and look up under the dashboard deep in the foot well.
There are some older models of vehicles from the 1960's and 1970's that have the hood release lever on the front of the vehicle where you reach through the front grill to release it. If there is no lever inside the vehicle use a flashlight to look through the grille. if there is a release it will be somewhere near the middle, top edge of the grille.

Can you see the end of the cable through the front grille? On some vehicles you can use a extra long flat screwdriver to push the release through the front grille.
Some S3 and A3 models have a small access hole between the bonnet and grille. A thin wire hook and a lot of poking around can release the bonnet.
if this doesn't work you might have to destroy the front grille to get access.

Carry out following work: Removing: - Undo and remove bolts -4- at top from radiator grille -1-. - Lever out spreader rivets -3- (Qty: 4) from below using a screwdriver. - Push thickness gauge -6- with the thickest feeler (1 mm) into space between radiator grille trim -2- and clip -5-. Note
This releases the latch -arrow-. - Using the front end hook -3370--7-, pull the radiator grille trim -2- out of the clip -5-"carefully" in -direction of arrow-. Fit on the right-hand side. - With help of a second mechanic, pull radiator grille trim -2- parallel out of the clips -5-. Caution
Radiator grille trim -2- is seated very tightly in the clips -5-.


- Remove bolts -2- on left and right. - Remove radiator grille -1- upwards.
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The hood latch cable pulls a lever over towards driver's side of car to open the hood. Pulling the lever releases the hood latch.
This is the lever that is not moving over far enough to release, and the one you need to get to. You are right to think of removing the grill. Is it easy to remove? Often, someone can lay underneath and reach up with a prying tool (a screwdriver) and push that lever over. But if it's too far to reach, or if it's obstructed by parts or support pieces, just remove the grill to reach the latch.
Good luck.

Hello,

the leading thing causing that is a dusty condenser coil. to clean that remove the grill above the refrig, and the white painted plate behind that and vacuum the coil on right side ,typically the grill is held on by springs and a either 1 screw in the center or 2 screws on the corners of the rim above the door,remove grill by opening refrig. door and remove screw tilt grill down and disattact springs

Good luck, i hope this helps

Gene

try to see if you can remove the grill, often times the grill is held in by screws accessed from the front of the car-if that does not work, you will probably have to get under the nose of the van and reach up to grasp the cable end (use vise grips) and pop the hood. Try the grill first though, use a flash light to carefully see if it can be done that way.

Under the car:
You will be able to open the hood if you pull off your splash guard and use a long long flat head screwdriver or something like that. You'll see the hood latch in front of the radiator with the cable attached to it at the top near the hood, put it on the drivers side edge of the bottom of the latch and pry to the passenger side, the lever moves from the drivers side to the passengers side, the cable basically pulls the top of it to achieve this. so your doing the same thing on the bottom with the screwdriver.



Release the latch from underneath by the lever that you have to pry towards the passenger side. Then open the hood, and replace the safety release mechanism broken cable.

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You will be able to open the hood if you pull off your splash guard and use a long long flat head screwdriver or something like that. You'll see the hood latch in front of the radiator with the cable attached to it at the top near the hood, put it on the drivers side edge of the bottom of the latch and pry to the passenger side, the lever moves from the drivers side to the passengers side, the cable basically pulls the top of it to achieve this. so your doing the same thing on the bottom with the screwdriver.


Release the latch from underneath by the lever that you have to pry towards the passenger side. Then open the hood, and repair or replace the safety release mechanism. This is very simple to remove out from the hood.

remove front grill section of font of car ?
not sure if that can be done hood on.
but at bottom it can be done and reach up like spider man and flip the lever with heavy screwdriver.

when you say the bonnet has been pushed in do you mean like in a traffic accident if this is the case then is your grill damaged,the reason i say this is the only way you are going to open your bonnet is through your grill so a replacement grill will be needed.if you take this course of action,take a torch and look up under the bonnet you will se the bonnet realease at the very front of your bonnet it will have the bonnet realease cable attached you might need help at this stage,get a friend to push down on your bonnet,put your hand in and push or pull the lever until it releases as this works on a hook system and with the damage it might need a pretty stronge screwdriver to force it always remember the radiator is very easly damaged and very costly to replace .Hope this will help you get your bonnet open .adrian