997.1 Hood (frunk) actuator

[Georgekenner]

I have 997.1 and am having a problem with the electric trunk actuator. Here is the issue. There is a steel cable safety cable that if you pull your wheel and remove the plastic panels you can pull to pop the hood. You can see steel cable in the picture. In the Diagram you can see the highlighted part. but it does not appear to have that steel cable. Looking at the way the part is made I see no way to thread that piece over the Actuator... which would leave me with no emergency entry method. Anyone ever have this problem? Pelican has a video on this for the 997,2 but they do not address the emergency cable. The part like the one in the Pelican Video is featured.

My car is a 2005 997.1

[andino]

the steel cable is labeled 22 meaning it has a seperate part number. You can likely transfer the cable to the new actuator when you replace it.

Also this is the aircooled 911 section. You'll likely get some more traction in the 996/997 section or on rennlist.

[ian c2]

All the emergency release is basically a cable in the wheel well that pulls the release cable taking up the slack until it undoes the latch .
It’s a pain , but works . I actually broke the loop on mine yanking hard and it still didn’t pop . Had you go get vice-grips .
You can very easily make your own cable and add it .
I recommend routing it to behind tow-cover or somewhere else more easily accessible while you test the action , then rerouting it to make it harder for thieves to get at .