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When the hood cable is properly in and adjusted the tip you're missing is just a retainer to hold cable in spot, if you wish you can probably put some Epoxy in it's place.
. The outside backup cable which I think is a good thing to have, I used a Heavy Duty Deep Sea stainless fishing leader that had the Lure End and I just hooked around the latch arm with cable run to wiper arm valley.
. With the set up you have you need to remove the hood cable from its clip and then loop the arm and then reconnect the factory cable. Be careful with that clip finding it might be hard to find.
. Yes if you look at Red86Z51s photos he is showing the Passenger side the system uses 2 independent cables coming from 1 pull lever, and even if only 1 side fails access to the other is a pain. So installing a little cheap secret by wipers could save a lot of angry words and thoughts about the Design & Designer's
Yes, only for the simple fact that either side can fail, and you won't know which side will go...until it does. Although there can be different reasons for a latch release failure, my experience has been the retaining clips that attach the cable to the latch mechanism snapped.
