Help - broken bonnet cable on Sunbeam Talbot 90

Hi Folks,

A friend of mine has a very nice Sunbeam Talbot 90 Mk IIA drop head coupe

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He wentout to tweak the engine today only to find that the bonnet release cable has snapped somewhere in the works and he can't get the bonnet open.

I am sure there must be some way round this - surely even the UK motor car industry couldn't make a car that had to be scrapped for a broken bonnet cable! Does anyone know for sure what that way might be, so I can pass it on to him?

Ian

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Ian Johnston
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If you lie on your back under the front and look up you should see where the cable is attached to the bonnet release. You need a very long screwdriver or a suitable metal bar, reach up with this and tweak the catch operating lever in the direction that the cable would be pulling it if it was working.

Ron Robinson

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R.N. Robinson

"Ian Johnston" realised it was 18 Jun 2006

20:23:41 GMT and decided it was time to write:

Triumph tried very hard with the TR6. They failed only because of the ingenuity of TR6 owners and aftermarket emergency bonnet openers.

Reply to
Yippee

Ah, but those were only the early days of the 'sealed for life' concept...

Ron Robinson

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R.N. Robinson

The usual advice to solve this one would be to find an identical car, open the bonnet and looking at the release mechanism work out how to bend a coathanger into a hook so that you can operate the release through the grill, practice a couple of times on the car you can get into before trying it out on the one with the broken bonnet cable. of course in this case, finding an identical car might not prove so simple!

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SimonJ

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