after breaking 2 bonnet release cables i thought "well stuff this" and went onto ebay and bought a boot release solenoid for 15 bucks out of a VN Calais/SS, measured abit, then wired it up and its the best thing. just press a button and KAPOW!! its open. i'll post some pics later.

so when you go out one morning and ya battery is flat, its going to be a prick to open the bonnet to get to the battery.

well yeah but, ive opened the bonnet without a release before, but i rekon there should be enough go in the battery to open the bonnet, and you can put power through the switch wires if you really have to.

Make up a 3 metre cig lighter to cig lighter jumper cable. Keep it in your "toolkit".

Then if you have a flat battery, you can jumpstart the bonnet release.

Chris.

The cig lighter lead sounds like a good idea if the need did arise oneday.

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The jumpstart bit gives me images of someone trying to crank the car with this and then 2 cars ending up with fried wires.

This electric release sure beats half a bonnet cable out the grill like most 1200s

How can you ever break the bonnet release cables twice.

You need to stop eating your weet-bix before you open it.

I added an Automatic Boot Opener on my old 1200, so i didnt have to worry about keys, i just ran a bit of wire around the side of the boot and under the carpet to the edge of the drivers seat with a handle and hey presto pull the handle and the boot opened, lol

and out goes the brand new speakers you thought you hooked up just 10minutes ago