I attempted to open the hood/bonnet on my D1 this morning and one end of the handle/pull broke off giving me a nice cut on my finger.
The cable had been hard to pull for some time and I was expecting the wire inside the cable to break sooner or later. I assumed it had become frayed causing it to be hard to pull. As such, I had a Bearmach cable on hand, purchased a few years ago. I installed it and the first time I pushed it back in the plastic cable came out of the metal part that holds it in place in the handle assembly.
I couldn’t get the cable back in place due to the end being crimped, albeit ineffectively, So, I looked at the old cable and decided to try the new metal cable inside the old/original plastic and metal sheath assembly. It worked! What I did discover in the process is the reason it was so hard to pull is the internal metal cable was bound tight at the end adjacent the pin release assembly. If I had removed the cable while it was still intact, I could have just cut off about 1/8 - 1/4 of an inch of the plastic sheath and reinstalled it. It would have worked fine and I likely wouldn’t have broken the handle to begin with. So, if you have one that is hard to pull, take a look at that before you replace it.
The cable had been hard to pull for some time and I was expecting the wire inside the cable to break sooner or later. I assumed it had become frayed causing it to be hard to pull. As such, I had a Bearmach cable on hand, purchased a few years ago. I installed it and the first time I pushed it back in the plastic cable came out of the metal part that holds it in place in the handle assembly.
I couldn’t get the cable back in place due to the end being crimped, albeit ineffectively, So, I looked at the old cable and decided to try the new metal cable inside the old/original plastic and metal sheath assembly. It worked! What I did discover in the process is the reason it was so hard to pull is the internal metal cable was bound tight at the end adjacent the pin release assembly. If I had removed the cable while it was still intact, I could have just cut off about 1/8 - 1/4 of an inch of the plastic sheath and reinstalled it. It would have worked fine and I likely wouldn’t have broken the handle to begin with. So, if you have one that is hard to pull, take a look at that before you replace it.