can't get engine lid to open - '88 80Q

[Tessie McMillan]

Cool! I hope you'll have time to share the procedure or some good photos! 
&:-) As mentioned before (and by now everyone has seen for themselves) 
the Bentley is lacking on this particular item... 

Tess


> You said:  "You're hood cable (cheap) is most likely stretched a bit... 
a
> good time to get a new one!"
>
> The hood cable is a piece of hard wire, NOT a cable, and it ain't gonna
> stretch!  The typical failure involves one or both of the plastic "golf

Well butter my biscuits, I must live in the Twilight Zone, because mine
stretched and now I am replacing it. Perhaps I will measure both the new 
and old one and see.