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lol I'll the tumbler ideaFAC3L3SS wrote:I believe that's correct. Not all have the safety latch, but I used to grab the little tumbler thing with a wrench and turn it. It sticks out some and it's dead center. Just grip it if you can get to it.
If the trunk is in that bad of shape, couldn't you just he-man it open and yank the carpet? Lul.
Alright thanks. I'm not sure what model this was but knowing my luck it was an SEsuperdan wrote:i think the only neons without the safety latch would be the SE model
Awesome thanks for the infodutch animal wrote:'SE got them too .. i have SE .. and have the safety latch
Correct!Midnight_Rider wrote:Federal safety standards required the "Emergency inside with glow in the dark release" pull handle starting with the '02 model year. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Jenni wrote:Correct!Midnight_Rider wrote:Federal safety standards required the "Emergency inside with glow in the dark release" pull handle starting with the '02 model year. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Only the first years came w/o.
Mine was late 2001 and had it also, earlier models not!
Btw: How can you know that it has the carpet if you cannot open the trunk???
x2.04R/T wrote:No lock as in there's a hole where a lock cylinder used to be? If that's the case can't you stick a screwdriver through the hole and turn the latch mechanism?
cgneon wrote:a neon owner just "knows"........ its like the force.... open the trunk with your mind... you know u can do it..
Alright I'll try that. I didn't have a screwdriver last time I went04R/T wrote:No lock as in there's a hole where a lock cylinder used to be? If that's the case can't you stick a screwdriver through the hole and turn the latch mechanism?
No third brake light and it was hanging down a littleJenni wrote:Correct!Midnight_Rider wrote:Federal safety standards required the "Emergency inside with glow in the dark release" pull handle starting with the '02 model year. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Only the first years came w/o.
Mine was late 2001 and had it also, earlier models not!
Btw: How can you know that it has the carpet if you cannot open the trunk???
Beginning in the 2002 model year, all cars began coming with a glow-in-the-dark release handle inside the trunk that allows people to escape from locked trunks. But many cars manufactured before that year still represent a risk.
Every year, some 10 to 20 people die trapped in a car trunk, estimates Janette Fennell, founder and president of Kids And Cars, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing injury and death to children in or around motor vehicles. While many victims are kids playing hide-and-seek, many more are adults put in trunks in the course of a crime, says Fennell.
Now that interior release handles are mandatory, most of these incidents now happen in older cars, which aren't equipped with release handles. Only a few models, such as the Ford Taurus, had the handles before they were required.
Some automakers offered kits to retrofit earlier-model vehicles with interior trunk handles, but those kits are no longer available.
No it was a large chain of junk yards so they didn't know. I was surprised it was gone though because it still had most of the interior, taillights, rear bumper, trunk lid and doors when I had looked at it on Thursday.Midnight_Rider wrote:^^What? Didn't they know you were coming back for the parts? That stinks.