There have been a few posts on adding a spring to the top latch of the lid to help the trunk open enough to get your fingers underneath.

Simple fix without attaching the large spring. Take off the rear center carpeted section that covers the lock mechanism. Next to and slightly in front of the latch there will be a spring with about 1 1/2" extended out with a slight bend. This is the piece that pushes the lid up. With closing and age that piece of spring that sticks out begins to bend downward.

Put pliers to it and bend it back up so it extends above the latch mouth.
The amount you bend it is the amount the trunk lid will raise.

Real easy fix and you can get rid of the spring you added to the lid.

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Excellent....thanks. So simple its scary.

Good info

Chuck

the info came in handy , because I happen to have the carpet removed, so I just went to the garage and bent it up a little and now it pops up about 1/2 in. the spring was pretty stiff to bend up. thanks for the info

Thanks,,I'll have to check that one our,,,My FRC lid is, should we say, a little inconsistent!! This sounds better than hanging a big old spring there!!

Additional point.

when you bend the spring up remember to keep it centered or bent towards the latch mouth or it will miss the lid lock.

I am going to do that tomorrow thanks very

Great tip, thanks! I never added the "spring", just didn't like the looks of that thing. This sounds like a simple fix.

great tip. this has been driving me crazy for about 3 months now.

Gonna give it a try tomorrow .

Thanks

Great Info... I'll going to have to do that to mine once the snow clears and it get warmer.....

If the General doesn't go out of business this year, I think you may be qualified as a design engineer and possibly get a 6 digit salary.

Thanks for th post. Drives me crazy. I knew there had to be a simple fix.

Great post and thanks for the info.

Thanks for the tip and I'll give that a try.

At least I won't have to throw away an expensive mod. I think my trunk popper cost all of $3

Mine still works fine, but hopefully I'll remember this when/if necessary.

Did the same thing to mine and works great

Did mine this morning on my Z. Works great now. Thanks

is this the spring i pull? (the coiled looking one on the right)