At some time in my cars history it was in a passenger side fender accident. Today I decided to try and get the hood to latch down further for better alignment of the hods right and left front corners. It was necessary to remove the upper hood latching assembly and cut more threads, on the latch loop, which would "pull down" more on the hood. Now my release cable has too much play in it and won't release. I looked in the PDF Manual and am unable to find anything about how to adjust the cable. Seems there should be! Is it adjustable? Anyone know?

Hood latch from "Root66" posting.


Damage behind passenger headlight.

 

Found the section and page number about the hood and latching but not anything about the cable. Chapter 23, Pg 135

 

Tried balancing the right and left corners of the hood yesterday with only a little luck. The car was in a fender bender several yers ago and has been problematic ever since. I removed the upper hood latch assembly and adjusted the two corner bumpers and leveled out the hood perfectly. "But" when reinstalling the latch it won't pull down snug and hood rocks right and left. I adjusted the nut, on the bottom latching assembly, but it locks the assembly down and won't release with the hand cable. The finger hood release became stuck and I had to use a screwdriver and force it open. I had to "settle" for adjusting so the hood will open but it's still not right. I replaced the grill with a spare original grill I have and looks better.

 

Never mind, I just read that you tried adjusting the hood bumpers. As far as the cable, you might want to talk to someone at a bicycle shop. They adjust those type cables all of the time for bike brakes.