350Z boot won't open

[Andy Nefyn]

The boot on my 2008 350Z won't open.  The button has gradually been getting less responsive over the last week.  Now there is no click when I press it and it won't open at all.

 

Any ideas?

[Azurez33]

Had a couple of boot latch mechanisms failing on the hrs, you might have to crawl into the boot somehow and pull the kidnap release, think it’s the plastic cog in the actuator that fails 

[ZMANALEX]

6 hours ago, Andy Nefyn said:

 

 

Any ideas?

As has been said, it will be the actuator that has given up.

 

Preowned, fully working boot actuators are in stock, so just drop me a PM if I can help further.

[Andy Nefyn]

On 02/07/2022 at 11:09, Azurez33 said:

Had a couple of boot latch mechanisms failing on the hrs, you might have to crawl into the boot somehow and pull the kidnap release, think it’s the plastic cog in the actuator that fails 

Thanks for the tip.  Fiddled about with the lock and put some vaseline in it and it seems to work fine now.

[Payco]

Not sure what happened to

my post but there is a manual boot release under your rear strut bar so you can release from inside the car.

[ZMANALEX]

33 minutes ago, Payco said:

Not sure what happened to

my post but there is a manual boot release under your rear strut bar so you can release from inside the car.