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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:48:34 GMT
From: "C.S." <calebnopsamlgraphsoft.com>
Subject: Re: 89 900T: Trunk Release Problems


Jerry Asher wrote: > Last night the trunk of my car opened easily. Today, it doesn't open at all. > > I turn the key and I can feel some resistance, but the trunk remains closed. > > The dealer says this is time consuming and expensive to repair. Not true. Or, at least, if your problem is the same as mine, it's no big deal. My '87 900 3-door had similar symptoms in that the rear hatch wouldn't open. Here's what I did: 1. You've got to get the hatch open somehow. I folded down the seat, crawled into the trunk from the passenger compartment with a flashlight, and released the hatch from the inside. 2. With the hatch open, I removed the interior panel. It's held in place with some plastic clips around the perimeter. I used a small flathead screwdriver to get behind these and push them up gently. The top portion of the panel has some clips built in - it'll be easy to pull the panel off, though, once the rest of the clips are removed. 3. Look at the latch release mechanism from the inside. Be amazed at just how simple it all is. Note the threaded rod with the nylon nut. See how squeezing the release lever on the outside causes a little lever on the inside to move. Does the lever on the inside just miss the nylon nut? There's your problem. Screw the nut down further so the lever hits it. See how the latch mechanism is now not only nicely operable, but seems as good as new. At this point, I just put everything back together. But the problem has returned after six months, and I suspect the problem is that the nylon nut is mostly stripped. I don't think it'll be more than 10 minutes at a hardware store and maybe 15 cents to find a replacement, but I'd be a liar if I said I'd already done it. 4. Put the panel back. Line up the pins at the top of the panel with their respective holes. Push hard through the padding over each pin and listen/feel the little click as it pops into place. The just put each of the clips through the holes in the panel and into the hole in the hatch, and push until it snaps into place. Verify that the hatch release still works. Use a small fraction of the dough the dealer would have charged for this 15 minute operation to go to a ball game. Caleb Strockbine calebnopsamlgraphsoft.com

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