{"id":2476,"date":"2015-05-23T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T21:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2024-09-18T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T23:39:53","slug":"how-to-open-a8-hood-when-latch-cable-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/how-to-open-a8-hood-when-latch-cable-broke.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Open A8 Hood When Latch Cable Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"<script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/2.9.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/idogjs\/fancybox-master\/dist\/jquery.fancybox.min.js\"><\/script>\n\t<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/idogjs\/fancybox-master\/dist\/fancybox_mod_min.css\">\n<blockquote><p><em>Before we go to drastic measures to release the hood latch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d3-platform-discussion-60\/hood-release-wire-snapped-hood-closed-2830934\/page13\/#post25172915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Access the hood cable box from fender well<\/button><\/a> then <a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/fix-broken-hood-latch-cable-a8-d3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">we should try all these first<\/button><\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The are so many instances people snapped the hood latch cable and some cost up to <a href=\"\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d3-platform-discussion-60\/hood-release-wire-snapped-hood-closed-2830934\/page10\/#post24686961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">$2000 for the body shop to destroy the front grille and repaint the hood<\/button><\/a>. Some people use a saw to <a href=\"\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d3-platform-discussion-60\/hood-release-wire-snapped-hood-closed-2830934\/page11\/#post24687512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-black w3-round-xlarge\">saw off the 2 hood hooks<\/button><\/a> while it&#8217;s closed tight, but before we start sawing, <a href=\"\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d3-platform-discussion-60\/hood-release-wire-snapped-hood-closed-2830934\/page4\/#post24678060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">try with the long screw driver first<\/button><\/a>. My latch is still intact, but I&#8217;m preparing for the day the cable snapped. I test the sawing method to see if it&#8217;s feasible and the least damage to the hood and the surroundings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1300843.jpg\" title=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" data-fancybox=\"box\" data-caption=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2433 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1300843-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" width=\"112\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>S8 hood&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" data-fancybox=\"box\" data-caption=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" href=\"https:\/\/data.motor-talk.de\/data\/galleries\/0\/404\/4636\/65419073\/207358982-w988-h1317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/data.motor-talk.de\/data\/galleries\/0\/404\/4636\/65419073\/207358982-w988-h1317.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/data.motor-talk.de\/data\/galleries\/0\/404\/4636\/65419073\/207358985-w988-h741.jpg\"  title=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" data-fancybox=\"box\" data-caption=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/data.motor-talk.de\/data\/galleries\/0\/404\/4636\/65419073\/207358985-w988-h741.jpg\" alt=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/data.motor-talk.de\/data\/galleries\/0\/404\/4636\/65419073\/207358980-w988-h1317.jpg\"  title=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\" data-fancybox=\"box\" data-caption=\"A8 D3 hood latch assembly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/data.motor-talk.de\/data\/galleries\/0\/404\/4636\/65419073\/207358980-w988-h1317.jpg\" alt=\"After Cut\" width=\"163\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"IHRr-9ABX5s\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we go to drastic measures to release the hood latch, then . The are so many instances people snapped the hood latch cable and some cost up to . Some people use a saw to while it&#8217;s closed tight, but before we start sawing, . My latch is still intact, but I&#8217;m preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/how-to-open-a8-hood-when-latch-cable-broke.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,1],"tags":[512,508,509,511,510],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-a8-d3-hood","tag-a8-hood","tag-hood-latch-broke","tag-open-hood","tag-saw-hood-hooks"],"views":11837,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}