Whether it’s to check your car’s fluid levels, change your oil, add windshield washer fluid, or change your car battery, it’s vital to maintain your engine in good conditions. Nevertheless, it can occurs that the bonnet of your Toyota Camry doesn’t want to open, in cases like this, what can you do? This is exactly the concern we will answer in this article and help you get out of this frustrating position. To accomplish this, we are going to discover what can be the causes of a stuck bonnet on your Toyota Camry and then what are the possibilities to solve this problem.
Why is my bonnet stuck on my Toyota Camry? What are the possibilities to open my bonnet?
As we explained earlier, we will alternately see the reasons for a bonnet stuck on your Toyota Camry, and what possibilities are available to you to get your bonnet open and repaired.
Broken Toyota Camry bonnet opening cable
First case situation. You may not be able to open the bonnet of your Toyota Camry as a consequence of the opening cable. In fact, with wear and tear, or due to a malfunction, the cable that goes from your passenger compartment to your bonnet may fall apart after a while or get stuck in the shell that protects it. Nevertheless this is quite infrequent on newer automobiles, it is not impossible that you could be the victim of this problem, especially when there is extra humidity in the area where you use your Toyota Camry. If this is the case, there are couple of possibilities existing to you and going to your auto technician seems to be the most simple and most practical approach. You will have to take out the front grille of your Toyota Camry to gain access to 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 Toyota Camry, take it off from the passenger compartment and engine compartment side and change it.
How to open the bonnet of my Toyota Camry, even if I have a twisted opening lever?
Second possibility which can cause a bonnet stuck on Toyota Camry. 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. After some time, this lever may break or twist, and thus prevent you from completing the opening of your engine compartment. You should still be able to unlock the bonnet from inside your car, but not fully open it. In this situation, a treatment is to use multi-function clamps and in the gap between the bonnet and the grille, grab the rest of the lever or the untwisted part of your lever and pull it with strength. This will open the locked bonnet of your Toyota Camry. 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 Toyota Camry
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Before last trigger of a bonnet stuck on Toyota Camry, you may be victim of a cable that is starting to have some play. Indeed, the bonnet opening mechanism of your car is equipped with a cable that goes from the passenger compartment of your Toyota Camry to the opening locker. This cable may become loose after a while. To resolve this problem completely, there is only one option, change the hood opening cable of your Toyota Camry. However, you will need a one-off solution in order to be able to open the cover of your car, you will have to ask a friend or relative to help you. Position the person at the front of your Toyota Camry 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 mechanic.
Bonnet of my Toyota Camry 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 Toyota Camry, position someone at the front of your car. And whoever presses moderately on the bonnet of the Toyota Camry, 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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