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Offline Primus84

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Help - emergency!
« on: 20 September 2009, 20:48 »
I opened the bonnet of my 06 Mk V GTI this evening to top up the oil. Now the bonnet will not lock back into place. Any ideas on how to get it to lock? Is this a common problem?

I've got family with AA cover, is it something AA man could fix?

Thanks for all help received, I need this fixed asap so I can get to work tomorrow. Starting to panic now!
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Re: Help - emergency!
« Reply #1 on: 20 September 2009, 21:44 »
Sounds like your cable has jammed or at least isn't releasing the catch.
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Offline 2007GTI

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Re: Help - emergency!
« Reply #2 on: 20 September 2009, 21:46 »
drop it from a height?
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Offline Primus84

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Re: Help - emergency!
« Reply #3 on: 20 September 2009, 21:46 »
Just come back in from playing around with the car. Just got it to lock in place by using loads of wd40 and playing with the mechanism using a screwdriver. It suddenly just clicked into lock. Thank goodness!
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Offline Primus84

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Re: Help - emergency!
« Reply #4 on: 20 September 2009, 21:48 »
Quote from: 2007GTI on 20 September 2009, 21:46
drop it from a height?

I did try that but you can only drop it so far given the mechanism to keep the bonnet open

cheers for the help tho! :)
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Offline AlanD

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Re: Help - emergency!
« Reply #5 on: 22 September 2009, 11:09 »
I was going to say WD40, mine played up a while ago and I did exactly that.
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Offline stealthwolf

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Re: Help - emergency!
« Reply #6 on: 22 September 2009, 22:34 »
I'm sure this once happened with my ED30 too. Quickly got the WD40 out and sorted.
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