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2001 avensis estate, help my bonnet wont catch properly and there is loads of slack in the release cable?

when i drop the bonnet it just bounces back up :(

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Yep a good squirt of WD40 should sort that out. Have a poke about at the bits that move on the part where the catch goes in. Once you have figured out what is meant to move give it a flipping good squirt of oil and clean out the crud to free off the mechanism.

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yeah got it sorted today :)

the latching mechanism was sticking open, so plenty of wd40 and its all free :)

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Had the same problem with mine when i had it a job lot of grease and also when i pulled the release flap i used to manualy push it back up that helped a lot, wd40 will only tempory fix problem grease lasts longer, or did with me

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