[s-cars] Not blind, but still can't see....(although I can't get the damn warning light to go out)

[Randy Reimer]

A similar thing happened to me.  During the summer months every time I
washed the car, I would clean the muck out of the hood release locks, it
looked really nice and clean and I thought no harm done.  Well, with all the
salt they've been throwing on the roads in Toronto, they seized up on me a
couple of times.  My hood did eventually pop up, I just lifted up on the
hood as gently but as firmly as I could.  Then I hit the 2 mechanisms with a
double shot of white grease.  No more probs, although my windshield washer
fluid warning sensor now goes off about 3 squirts after I've filled it up.
Not sure how to fix that....

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Dan Bertram
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:22 PM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Cc: SOS-cars at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [s-cars] Not blind, but still can't see....


Well, seems as though I've got a minor issue here and am in desperate need
of some help.  Late Friday night, as my warning light for low windshield
washer fluid came on, I pulled into a gas station to fill up.  Open the hood
with the release, but no release.  So, I got home, got out some pliers and
gently pulled on the cable enough to hear the obligatory clunk of the hood
releasing.  EXCEPT that it was only the left/driver side.  NOT the passenger
side.  I just recently got a CD copy of the Bentley, so I thought would be a
good time to load it up.  Not a chance:  couldn't get the registration to
work.  (Insert expletives here).  Checked out the archives on both mailman
lists and yahoo list, and found a few references, although none of them
worked for my particular dilemma.

By this point, air temp was a balmy -18C and after I got the belly pan off
thinking I might be able to reach something from below.  No luck (insert
more expletives here).  I finally said screw it with salty snow stinging my
eyes and put the pan back on to make the commute to ski country for the
weekend.  Had to stop every once in a while to spray the window with WW
fluid in a Windex bottle.  Grrrrrrrr.

ANYway, does someone have an idea as to how to access the passenger side
hood spring/lock mechanism to open it without the cable?  Any chance that
it's less complicated than what I've tried so far, as this am was -33C in my
driveway?

Dan - '97 S6 and squinting through salt-streaked windshield with sun
refracting so as to blind me completely....

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