Has anyone got any advice about how to replace the bonnet cable? I cannot for the life of me see how to get the new cable back over the top of the release lever inside the car. There just doesn't seem to be enough room between the top of the plastic lever and its supporting bracket for the nipple on the end of the cable to pass through. Naturally, the Haynes manual doesn't mention this, the most awkward part of the entire operation....!

It doesn't appear that the plastic handle can be removed from its bracket and the bracket is welded to the bulkhead, so I'm out of ideas as to how to get this blasted cable through!

On re-reading the Haynes manual, it DOES cover this, and evidently the bonnet release handle inside the car does have to be removed. The manual blithely says "extract the lever pivot pin" - unfortunately this doesn't take me much further as both ends of the pin are burred over in manufacture and I cannot see how it could be extracted. It's barely accessible anyway, as the fuse box is right in front of it and you have to lie on your back in the passenger footwell. I managed to get the point of a thin screwdriver on one end of the pin and thwacked it with a hammer but there's no way it's coming out.

I take it from the absence of response that no-one else has encountered this problem - count yourselves lucky!

Sounds like a nightmare - I remember not being able to shut the bonnet on mine- it was a real pain in the backside. Had to drive it 15 miles to get it fixed just resting on the catch.

Will the cable not slip out over the plastic in anyway at all? Can you remove some of the carpet / foam to get at it better? Only ideas - sorry I don't know much more about this. I hope you get it sorted.

On the favorit the glovebox is easily removable (describes how to do it in the Haynes) and the fusebox is also easily removable, you just push it to one side and pivot it out. Don't know if that will improve access at all. Is there anyway you could bodge it with a bit of string perhaps? Sorry I can't help beyond that.

Thanks for the responses. Pending inspiration, I have done a temporary repair with a piece of string and a keyring on the end to pull on. It works anyway, and may well end up as the permanent solution!

On the favorit the glovebox is easily removable (describes how to do it in the Haynes) and the fusebox is also easily removable, you just push it to one side and pivot it out. Don't know if that will improve access at all. Is there anyway you could bodge it with a bit of string perhaps? Sorry I can't help beyond that.

You can get the glovebox out of the Felicia easily - it just unclips - the trough part where you actually put your larger items in such as the manual. I can do it with my fingers now - might give you a bit more access as newman says.