Whether it’s to check your car’s fluid levels, change your oil, add windshield washer fluid, or change your car battery, it’s fundamental to keep your engine in good conditions. Nevertheless, it can happen that the bonnet of your Seat Ateca doesn’t want to open, in this instance, what are your options? This is specifically the question we will answer in this article and assist you to get out of this irritating position. To accomplish this, we are going to see what can be the causes of a stuck bonnet on your Seat Ateca and then what are the solutions to cure this trouble.

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Why is my bonnet stuck on my Seat Ateca? What are the solutions to open my bonnet?

As we explained earlier, we will alternately see the causes for a bonnet stuck on your Seat Ateca, and what solutions are available to you to get your bonnet open and repaired.

Broken Seat Ateca bonnet opening cable

1st case scenario. You may not be able to open the bonnet of your Seat Ateca resulting from the opening cable. Indeed, with wear and tear, or due to a failure, the cable that goes from your passenger compartment to your engine may fall apart after a while or get stuck in the shell that protects it. Nevertheless this is quite infrequent on newer vehicles, it is not improbable that you could be the victim of this trouble, especially when there is excess humidity in the location where you use your Seat Ateca. If this is the case, there are few solutions available to you and going to your motor mechanic seems the most simple and most practical strategy. You will have to take off the front grille of your Seat Ateca to access the lock on your stuck bonnet. Using a large flat screwdriver you will be able to open your car’s bonnet lock by exerting a force on the lock to release it from the spring. Once open, you can try to find the broken part of the bonnet cable of your Seat Ateca, take it off from the passenger compartment and engine compartment side and change it.

How to open the bonnet of my Seat Ateca, regardless if I have a twisted opening lever?

Second situation which can generate a bonnet stuck on Seat Ateca. It is this time at the level of the secondary lever which is used to end the procedure of opening the cover of your car. As time passes, this lever may break or twist, and thus prevent you from completing the opening of your engine compartment. You should still be able to open the bonnet from inside your car, but not fully open it. In this scenario, a remedy is to use multi-function clamps and in the gap between the hood and the grille, grab the rest of the lever or the untwisted section of your lever and pull it with force. This will open the locked hood of your Seat Ateca. Then if it is twisted, try to straighten it with your pliers. Or change it with a new one.

Play in the cable to open the stuck bonnet of your Seat Ateca

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Before last justification of a bonnet stuck on Seat Ateca, you may be victim of a cable that is starting to have some play. In fact, the bonnet opening mechanism of your car is equipped with a cable that goes from the passenger compartment of your Seat Ateca to the opening locker. This cable may possibly become loose after a while. To remedy this trouble once and for all, there is only one solution, replace the hood opening cable of your Seat Ateca. However, you will need a one-off solution in order to be able to open the cover of your car, you will have to request someone to help you. Position the person at the front of your Seat Ateca who holds the lever down as if they wanted to finish opening the bonnet. And position yourself in the passenger compartment to pull the hood release handle on your car. If this doesn’t function, you can always try to do as in the case of a broken cable with a pair of clamps. Otherwise go to your service garage.

Bonnet of my Seat Ateca stuck

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Finally, the last situation is when the bonnet gets stuck when the passenger compartment handle is operated. In such a case, to unlock the hood of your Seat Ateca, position someone at the front of your car. And whoever presses moderately on the bonnet of the Seat Ateca, it will have the consequence of releasing some play so that the lock will be unlocked when you activate the interior handle.

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