B5 hood latch 1 - rally 0
 

Just spend over and hour under the car with a flashlight and thin, long poker. I can just see bearly enough of the latch to make out where it is, but not which tab I can hit, push, pull etc.. The rad fan connectors and wires are in the way as well.

If I can't get this with round two, with some other means of poking and prodding.. I might have to just rip the bumper off, take the IC piping off and pull the front end into service position.

I still can't believe I forgot the damn cable. bah humbug!!

sorry to hear but I LOL'd pretty hard at that opening sentence...

I would have pulled the bumper to start with. You would have already been done by now
 

and it would have taken you less than an hour.

This is actually a problem that I can picture a dealer encountering
 

Maybe they could offer some advice? Seems like they'd come across this problem when repairing crashed cars.

why not just pop the grill out?
 

I broke my hood latch a couple of weeks ago. I popped the grill out to finally open it up and found I only needed to clean up the mechanism to get it to work smoothly again. I put a zip tie on the remaining piece of the pull so that it only comes out when I pull the release from in the car.

he has trouble ,I believe because of the way that bumper mounts and the FMIC
 

I would make a tool from a cheap screwdriver bent in a "U" to try and pry the grille tabs free.

Can't you only release the tabs from the back?
 

which means you need the hood open

Bingo. Which means breaking the Rs4 grill. I would rather not.

I got mine out from the outside
 

maybe some of my grill tabs are broken. But it's back in there with no issues.

hmm so you popped the grill out? couple tab casualties but all good?
 

I'll have to make a second go at it tomorrow after work.