Trunk won’t close

[green02crew]

My trunk won’t latch, I’m out of town and need to drive back. I tried getting aggressive with it, tried unplugging the electric plug, messed with the emergency latch, no go. Latch moves freely when pushed but won’t latch closed.

 

[DonD]

IF nothing else works, use a lot of duct tape and drive on.

 

[Bald Guy]

Don't be too hard on it and try to find a temporary yet safe solution to hold it down until you can take it to the dealer so they can find a resolution the right way.

 

[Argent86]

There might be a trunk escape pull, inside the lid, man. I think I read in the manual if someone gets trapped. Or if your lid is stuck closed with no power you'd have to crawl through the back seat. But that pull lever. might check it.

 

[green02crew]

I didn't have any tools to take apart the trunk liner so I'm going to need a new one of those. Unplugged the electronic popper and made sure the manual one wasn't somehow pulled permanently. It still wouludn't latch but the latch moved freely when pushed but wouldn't stay in the locked position. I was able to tie a phone charger cable to the manual popper cable just before it started to rain, which wasn't forecasted. I routed the cable inside and tied it off to the seatback latch as I couldn't fit to climb in the trunk. My preferred dealer said they can't help me until November. So that's cool. I did notice before this happened that I had to hit the trunk release button 3 times before the trunk popped, thought that was odd but didn't put much else thought into it.

 

[Slick Blackwings]

I didn't have any tools to take apart the trunk liner so I'm going to need a new one of those. Unplugged the electronic popper and made sure the manual one wasn't somehow pulled permanently. It still wouludn't latch but the latch moved freely when pushed but wouldn't stay in the locked position. I was able to tie a phone charger cable to the manual popper cable just before it started to rain, which wasn't forecasted. I routed the cable inside and tied it off to the seatback latch as I couldn't fit to climb in the trunk. My preferred dealer said they can't help me until November. So that's cool. I did notice before this happened that I had to hit the trunk release button 3 times before the trunk popped, thought that was odd but didn't put much else thought into it.

NOVEMBER

 

[green02crew]

Yup. Even tried to take my friends apt and they said no skipping in line. Guess they’re not counting on me wanting to drive the car or any rain for a couple months.

 

[ngoni]

Any GM dealer can work on the car. You don't have to take it to a Cadillac dealership.