Thank you "Peter Finn"......your video.....is perfect.....you are a great man....i will buy a 10 millimeter socket and 1/4 inch rachet and extension tomorrow and copy your procedure....
I just sprayed W-40 through the grill on my 83 Corolla. It was really stuck. I tried to get under the car and budge something, but that wasn't working so I just banged on it a bit to knock rust and dirt loose. I did notice my cable looked slack, so I tried pulling on the cable inside my car with vise grips again for the second time the next day, and only after WD-40 and some rust/dirt tapping and hood wiggling, it worked and, BINGO! it opened. Not closing the hood again until I tighten the cable and clean and lubricate the mechanism. I watched a bunch of videos but they didn't really help that much. I did like the trick with putting the screwdriver in the lock slot so you can figure out how the mechanism works. My hood is a bit crooked, too.
Thanks for the very nice and helpful video it solved my problem with my 2008 matrix hood but man please talk less during your videos its annoying Thanks👍👍
This reminds me of my friend's 4Runner! "How does this new bumper we bought and this old grille go back on together?? ..Wait, is that another 4Runner?" *we completely creep out the neighbor's 4Runner across the street* Afterwards we realized someone had attached a Tacoma grille to that busted 4Runner face. We don't really care how it looks though; the 5VZ-FE 3.4L V6 in it has 225,000 miles on it and we haven't had to add any oil since the change we did 3000 miles ago!
I just grabbed the cable inside the car ahead of the lever with channel locks and pulled. Then the hood gave way. Then I sprayed it all down good with wd40. Works great now.
@@PeterFinnTheCarDoctor And I can't see the latch even past the little holes of the mask grill. I don';t want to destory it and find out I can't access it anyway.
How did you dis engaged the cable from the black toyota hood lock through the toyota monogram opening. I missed that. I have 2005 lexus ES330 with same problem. My hood lock is covered with plastic cover. And my metal lexus monogram in mounted on the hood not on the grill like yours.
Can confirm!! Crazy Finn Technique worked for a 1997 Toyota Tercel, CDN edition! :D 3 screws! Different layout but.. very similar/educated guess helped. Now... to find/fix a 1997 Hood latch?? :P Parts are getting slim... car is also rusting out over time/body.. lol. Not many years left, I think.... Need to charge up/condition the dead battery inside now and hope the fuel stabilizer I put in a year ago worked sorta ok? :P Wish me luck. Good channel/video man! I suggest a hook/line.. Maybe Crazy Finn is not it (not to be disrespectful), but maybe! ... For us in N America its hard to tell Finish from Russian from.. haha. Just hard to discern. Good advice! EDIT: Something was wrong with the locking mechanism.. it wouldn't release.. but now it appears to (maybe) be working again. Somehow it seized up in locked position? .. .. Will investigate further. Old car. Most things (besides body now and accelerating rust) in good condition. 300,000km+
It is very bad for a Toyota to make cars that the hood locks and you cannot open it if you have an emergency if your car caught on fire or something you can't open the hood so that's a flaw for Toyota they need to fix that the reconcile that that is very bad
He has no idea what he is doing. The reason his hood is stuck was from corrosion in the latch, corrosion on the cable and the return spring getting weak over time! Replace the latch and cable is the fix! Do not subscribe to this guy! He doesn't know what he is doing.
