You all know that when you try to open your trunk on your car that you need to press the remote like 50 bajallion times! Well, i fixed it on saturday. Very easy to do and will less than $5..

go to your local Home Depot or Lowes and buy a spring that is 5/8" diameter x 2.5" long

1) Open the rear hatch of your F-Body and remove the cargo divider by pulling it toward the back of the car

2) Move the locking screws to the "unlock" position on the inside passenger quarter panel. You know where the rear speakers are at

3) Pull the inside passenger quarter panel away from the car and lay it on the top of the cargo compartment. Be careful not to yank it away to far because you will tear the speaker wire all up.

4) Pull back the cheezy cargo interior on the inside back of the car

5) Locate the factory spring on the rear hatch release mechanism

6) Place your new spring from Home Depot, Lowe's or local hardware store onto the factory spring. piggy back on the factory spring. We had to use a pair of needle nose pliers to bend the ends of the spring we purchased so it would hook onto the factory spring. No big deal just use common sense here. Our spring cost use about $3 at Lowe's and came in a pack of two. So give one to your best F-Body bud.

7) Try out your rear hatch release now! Watch how it works and do not be shocked when your hatch tries to launch itself into the air!


that is you are done..

 

Did mine like 6 years ago as it was a noted issue back then that was finally fixed under warranty with a stronger spring.

I just replaced mine with a stronger spring, no need to piggy back if you can find the right size spring.

 

I laughed at the image of the hatch flyin up that fast.

Im gonna try this out soon, thanks for the write up.

 

LOL Brad.. well, it does not *FLY* up, but release better

 

what is the right size spring to avoid piggy backing?

i hate this problem!!!

thanks
tony

 

wasn't this write up on installuniversity.com?

 

Tried this years ago when the write up first appeared on Install Univeristy. Worked twice then started doing the same thing again. I have given up trying to fix this. It should also be noted that the above fix has bent the arm on some peoples trunk latch. It did to mine.

 

I'd like to know, too.

 

yes it was.. some people dont know that it exsists....

 

I piggybacked my spring, exactly like install university said. It worked for about 2 or 3 days, and it's been back to "normal" since. I just pull up on the hatch as I click the remote.

 

Same here. Just click and lift. It doesn't surprise me that the spring gets weak though. My brother's Firebird didn't have trunk struts when we bought it and we quickly found out the hatch weighs a million pounds. We used a 2x4 before we bought struts to keep it propped up and we were still worried it would fall.

 

HERE IS A LINK THAT WILL SHOW YOU HOW IF ANY ONE NEEDS IT http://www.installuniversity.com/ins...ease_fix_2.htm