Hi

Just joined again, see welcome post.

I'm currently awaiting a spine operation so getting down and spanner wielding is very limited.

Wife's bonnet release was not working so managed to get enough on the handle to crack it.

Gave her my Octavia 🫣 to get by.

Anyway old catch out from grille top new cable through connected.

Played with catch,lock pull and unlock with bonnet open.

All good, shut bonnet and pull handle in car zip nada nothing.

It looks like it is possibly stretched or has it come out from its little box under the bonnet ?

Well normally I would just go up down undertray off poke the catch from under and take it from there.

All the time in the world.

Unfortunately if I am going down there I need to have everything down and perhaps a bit of a heads up what to expect on how easy it is to push the catch.

Any advice really appreciated.

So I put every possible thing I could need next to me ramped it and slid underneath and took tray off.

Absolutely no sign of the catch to poke it as in the YouTube videos.

Lit it up and think maybe it's covered by plastic.

Put it all back together as that's enough pain for today.

Hmmm 🤔 next idea 💡

The bonnet pull on my previous Octavia 2 failed a few years back right outside the place I'd gone to to buy a new battery. The battery guy couldn't work out how to do it so Green Flag came to the rescue. Took him over two hours to do it through the front grilles which rattled from then on. And the reason it failed? The plastic connector in the two-piece cable had cracked allowing the soldered nipple to just pull out....

Not an easy job and I imagine on the Oct 3, it wll be even more difficult with improved security.

Good luck

I have ordered some steel bar to cut and bend to make a tool to Go in the grille and reach the depth and up to the bit under that needs pushing.

Off away for a week so tackle it when I get home

Can’t help, I’m afraid, but I was thinking that I might add an auxiliary cable to mine and hide it inside the wheelarch. Behind the liner, maybe.

I have done that on another car.

2 minutes ago, daveo138 said:

Can’t help, I’m afraid, but I was thinking that I might add an auxiliary cable to mine and hide it inside the wheelarch. Behind the liner, maybe.

I have done that on another car.

Great idea 💡