I helped out my neighbor yesterday jumping her car. I pulled the hood release on my 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee and then went up front hit the secondary lock and jumped her car. Then I went to close it and it only locks as if you just pulled the hood release. The release seems "loose" It is not popping back into its original position but the hood can be pushed to its locked position but does not lock, it also happened out of the blue, is this a major issue and any advice on this would be great.
Sounds like the cable or the latch is stuck. The latch may need to be oiled. When someone pulls the handle under the dash, you should be able to watch the latch move back and forth.
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open the fuse box in the foot well should be redpillar that can pull towards you will have a pic of a car on it.connect one live to this earth to door latch and now can pop hood.there is also a button by fuse box to close open rear spoiler.
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try getting another person to lift on the hood while you pull the release, the lift assist spring might have broken
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The cable is held in place by a metal bracket. If it cam off the bracket it won't work.
Look behind the part you pull and you will see the wire and the outer part of the cable. The end of the outer part of the cable has a groove neer the end. This groove slides onto a slot that is located just behind the pull latch. Once you see it it will make since on how it should go.
You can also grab the outer part of the cable and pull the inner wire. If you can pull the wire almost out, then it is broken. But the chances of that are very low.
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