How To Open A Broken Bonnet On Your 2015 VW Passat 2.0TDI Without Damaging Anything

Have you ever been in the situation where your bonnet release handle doesn’t work and thought “how else am I going to get this open”? Well it turns out that there is a way of working around this common fault. We investigate why the bonnet release cable has failed to open the bonnet on a 2015 VW Passat 2.0 TDI. We investigate why the cable has failed and how we logically went about the fault to release the bonnet WITHOUT damaging any components, especially body work. We’ll go into detail about how to replace the faulty component(s), why it failed and ways of preventing failure in the future and to ensure its longevity.