Is anyone else tired of weight-lifting the trunk lid?
03-24-2008, 03:58 PM
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NO! There is a hatch from a certain model that has a spring with some kind of assistant latch that when you pop the trunk, the hatch will actually pop up high enough to actually go up all the way by its self. I have one, can post a pic if youd like?
03-25-2008, 07:23 AM
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Yes, yes, yes! Lets have a look.
04-09-2008, 06:35 AM
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Where is that picture???
04-09-2008, 07:07 PM
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Vert or coupe? Cause my convertible SS is an '00 also. Your daughter might be able to kick my 8 yr old sons ***.
Mine is a convertible.
Mine is a convertible. 
04-23-2008, 05:17 PM
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04-26-2008, 01:54 PM
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you do know right, that to open the trunk with the keyless entry, you have to hit the trunk button twice with a slight pause in between, like press button, pause 2 seconds, press button again. It's by desing, I'm sure I read it in the manual.
04-26-2008, 02:02 PM
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oh man, don't use pb for stuff like that. straight oil would be much better for lubricating a hinge. It seems to me that the pb eats away too much then when it dries isn't very lubricated. Plus the staining and smell left on surrounding and dripped on parts. The extreme cases I use pb to free up a rusted hood latch or something, I'll then flush it with wd40 after, then final lube it with mobile 1 from my oil squirt can, then work the mechanism around a couple hundred times to free it up as much as possible.
04-29-2008, 09:29 PM
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oh man, don't use pb for stuff like that. straight oil would be much better for lubricating a hinge. It seems to me that the pb eats away too much then when it dries isn't very lubricated. Plus the staining and smell left on surrounding and dripped on parts. The extreme cases I use pb to free up a rusted hood latch or something, I'll then flush it with wd40 after, then final lube it with mobile 1 from my oil squirt can, then work the mechanism around a couple hundred times to free it up as much as possible.
05-02-2008, 06:57 PM
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i have a 00' SS vert and mine is also like a suction problem. the trunk is like air tight like Fast Eddie's 02 T/A vert. said. a lot of times my friends will ask me to pop the trunk, i'll do it and they'll continue to yell for me to pop the trunk. even after they have lifted on it a little.
05-02-2008, 07:11 PM
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On the mn12 tbirds, guys would add a gas spring strut that popped it enough to open all the way. I never bothered, but it looked real easy to do. Very different hinge setup if I recall correctly though.
05-02-2008, 08:09 PM
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