The key to my 2006 Ford Mondeo wont open the hood for some reason… This is particularly bad due to the battery being dead after not being used for a few months. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? (If its possible to fix) Additional information would be that the key fob usually works around 40% of the time so i resorted to using the manual key mostly, but now the manual key does not turn in the door either, so i’m pretty much hoping that the key fob will work if i want to use my car. Rather not go to a mechanic, broke student
Perhaps issue with the electronic lock? Maybe its locked in an emergency mode or something due to me using the manual key so much?
Are you calling the luggage compartment lid a “hood” or is this the lid that covers the engine? This is a predominantly a US site and your car’s name is not for American models. A “hood” for us is the engine cover. Boot-lid might me your term for the luggage compartment lid.
If you are referring to the luggage compartment cover as a “hood” then your car should have a pull-tag in the truck to open it from the inside. If the car has fold-down rear seats, you can reach it from there.
OR you could open the engine cover and attach a jump pack to the battery terminals. That will power up the car’s electrics so you can use the fob or the in-car button. You will either need to get into the car from the door - get some lock lubricant from a hardware store - and lube the lock and work the key a bit until it opens…. Or climb under the nose of the car to see if you can reach the hood latch and pop it open by hand. This works if you are calling the engine cover “hood” too.
Try spraying some WD-40 etc in the key hole and see if that helps… If not insert the key and tap on the end of the key with a small hammer or big end of a screw driver, you are NOT trying to hammer a 16p nail in hardwood, just tapping it enough to jar/free the pins loose/up…
Tried WD40, no chance of getting it to turn, even with slight hammering.
When turning the key to the left to open the latch theres a full stop after turning it 50% or so, when turning it right which is step 2 to opening the hood it gives in a little but of course won’t open due to step 1 not being completed lol.
Go back to the 1st reply, but don’t just push down on the hood, try tapping it with the side of your fist, again, not hard enough to dent it, just trying to shock/jar it some…
Would love to say i had some ingenious way of figuring this out, but i just used to reserve key which wasn’t as worn out, sometimes the easiest solution is the last one you think of (Had crossed off reserve key as an option due to it also having problems with the fob )
When this question was first asked I thought that traslation was confusing trunk and engine hood. Then Google showed the hood ( bonnet ) key slot behind the grill logo. Who ever thought of that needs to be stopped from ever having any more ideas.
I never before heard of cars having a key lock for the hood/bonnet, so at least I learned something from this thread. And, I hope that Ford and other European car makers have learned to simply use an interior lever to unlock the hood/bonnet.
The Transit Connects are the same way, use key to pop the hood… Like I already said, it is a Ford thing… lol
Yeah, turning the key over is normally a given, so don’t normally recommending doing it, kind of like my car doesn’t start, we don’t normally ask if it has gas in it or not… lol
Vehicles in Europe have greater security measures (and requirements), unfamiliar to most people in the United States.
Break the side window, pull the hood release and steal the battery.
A thief stole the battery from my coworkers Subaru while it was parked in the employee parking lot. They didn’t loosen the cables; they cut the cables resulting in a damaged wiring harness.
If all else failed, a trickle charger could charge the battery through the cabin power accessory receptacle. Those receptacles usually have a 10 ampere fuse. If the cabin power receptacle is disabled, pin number 16 in the OBD receptacle goes to the battery plus terminal. I don’t know what the current limit, if any, is on that circuit. Pin 4 is chassis ground. I purchased some OBD plug blanks on eBay and wired them through a 3 amp fuse, for safety, to a 1.5 amp float charger. So that I can conveniently plug in the charger without having to open the hood. This will work on any car in the US made after 1995.
Did you post to the wrong thread ? This is about a non US vehicle that has a silly key lock in the front grill to open the Bonnet ( Hood for US people ). Which the person solved by using another key.
Wow, this is great! You have just advised people to apply 12V+ to the CAN Bus Low circuit, a circuit which is for module network communication and has a nominal voltage of less than 2.5V.
(Had crossed off reserve key as an option due to it also having problems with the fob