Thread: Tight Bonnet Cable

mines a disco so possibly not relevant but I have just had the cable changed on mine.

the disco bonnet was getting harder and harder to open. when the car went into the garage my guy said to me you wanna get that cable changed its getting sticky and one day it will just snap on you without warning.

So Ian changed it...oh my god I don't know why we didn't do it sooner the bonnet cable can now been done literally with two fingers and no effort. So judging by my experience I would say cable

Mine is the same and it's got half the handel broken off...I think it would be worth replacing with a home made steel/alloy one when it finelly breaks

Tristan

the biggest part of the problem is that the cable and lock gets dust in it, as well as any lubricant that was in there dries out over time

best way to deal with it is to pull the cable out and drip some machine oil down one end, jiggling the inner cable back and forth to get the oil down inside it, keep going till it gets to the other end

then pull the bonnet lock out, chuck it in a tub of degreaser for a while, clean it right out and re oil/grease it

I am with Sprint...i cleaned it with copious amounts of WD40 wiped it dry and greased it by extending it and smearing heaps on seemed to do the trick thus far

Reckon I may do as the others have suggested. Although I don't think it's the cable, it seemed to slide pretty easily. I reckon the cable itself may have stretched

So I'll fix the handle run some oil down inside it, then pull the latch itself out douse it in Brake Cleaner then re grease/oil that up and see what happens

Hopefully I'll have a fix

Originally Posted by Jock The Rock

Reckon I may do as the others have suggested.

Although I don't think it's the cable, it seemed to slide pretty easily. I reckon the cable itself may have stretched

So I'll fix the handle run some oil down inside it, then pull the latch itself out douse it in Brake Cleaner then re grease/oil that up and see what happens

Hopefully I'll have a fix

isn't that statement contradicting itself if the cable has stretched then surely its the cable

My bad

What I meant was I don't think it's the oily build up in the cable itself. I reckon it's where the little adjuster connects to the latch itself, it may have slipped making it so the cable doesn't fully open the latch. And the latch being all cruddy probably doesn't help either

something else i forgot to add is the reason bonnets open so easily when you have someone push down on the bonnet while you're pulling on the cable is that you're releasing any load that the bonnet is exerting on the catch, ice had it happen a few times where people have adjusted the bonnet support rubbers up a bit too far, and the cable simply stretches instead of forcing the catch to overcome the friction of the load and releasing it