Trunk question

PurpleStuff · Post by **PurpleStuff** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:11 pm

So the local junk yard has a couple 2gn neons and one of them has the trunk lid carpet. The problem is there is no lock on the trunk lid and there's no way to pop it open from the inside(they use the same button the srt has right?) The trunk is full of junk giant water jug, parts and other stuff. I assume the only way to open it is to crawl in and pull the safety latch(Do they all have this.) Is this correct?

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:14 pm

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.

superdan · Post by **superdan** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:40 pm

i think the only neons without the safety latch would be the SE model

PurpleStuff · Post by **PurpleStuff** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:50 pm

FAC3L3SS 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.

lol I'll the tumbler idea

superdan wrote:i think the only neons without the safety latch would be the SE model

Alright thanks. I'm not sure what model this was but knowing my luck it was an SE

dutch animal · Post by **dutch animal** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:49 am

'SE got them too .. i have SE .. and have the safety latch

PurpleStuff · Post by **PurpleStuff** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:32 am

dutch animal wrote:'SE got them too .. i have SE .. and have the safety latch

Awesome thanks for the info

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:53 am

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.

04R/T · Post by **04R/T** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:18 am

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?

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:51 am

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.

Correct!
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???

cgneon · Post by **cgneon** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:47 am

Jenni wrote:
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.
Correct!
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???

a neon owner just "knows"........ its like the force.... open the trunk with your mind... you know u can do it..

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:02 am

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?

x2.

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:09 am

cgneon wrote:a neon owner just "knows"........ its like the force.... open the trunk with your mind... you know u can do it..

PurpleStuff · Post by **PurpleStuff** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:11 am

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?

Alright I'll try that. I didn't have a screwdriver last time I went

Jenni wrote:
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.
Correct!
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???

No third brake light and it was hanging down a little

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:25 am

This explains why my 2000 didn't have the release switch thingy.

Post by **occasional demons** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:46 am

Mine's an early '01 and it has it.

It also had the 2000 2.00" exhaust system.

Edit:

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.

PurpleStuff · Post by **PurpleStuff** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:46 pm

Thanks for the help and info but sadly I went to the junk yard today and they had removed the neon from the yard. I'll try another one on Monday and remember the info in here.

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:07 pm

^^What? Didn't they know you were coming back for the parts? That stinks.

Alex Kurdian · Post by **Alex Kurdian** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:31 am

My neon is an 01 but some say its more 02...it actually has the glow in the dark release in the trunk

Midnight_Rider · Post by **Midnight_Rider** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 6:44 am

^^I'll bet that it was assembled towards the end of the model year.

PurpleStuff · Post by **PurpleStuff** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:43 pm

Midnight_Rider wrote:^^What? Didn't they know you were coming back for the parts? That stinks.

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.

nicksdad06 · Post by **nicksdad06** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:52 pm

next time take a pry bar they work wonders

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