Originally Posted by Intimacy

Hi, everyone.

My problem is exactly as follows:

My decklid won't open. The top is currently up, and errors (flashing red light) when attempting to put it down. When attempting to lock/unlock the car, it sounds like everything's working properly. However, the exterior trunk handle does nothing; it feels like it's just brushing across something inside.

To manually put the top down, I'd have to be able to get into the trunk, so no dice, there. And in order to use the interior trunk release, I'd have to be able to open the compartment for the convertible top.

I've done a bit of research, and I head it's possible to pop the latch from the outside by removing the licence plate light assemblies, so I've done that... but now what? I've looked inside and felt around, but I'm not seeing anything obvious.

I looked around the forum, but I can't find *how* to open the latch, once you've got the lights off.