When i bought the car the hatch was working normally but after opening and closing it a couple times the motor failed to pull down the hatch or atleast thats what i thought had happened.

Its been about two months now since i have left it like that but today i finally decided to take a look at it. It turns out it is not the hatch motor, that works fine, i can manually make it go up and down by pushing the little button. The conclusion i have come to is the latch thing is not working correctly. I think it is stuck in the down position or something. Am i right?

So my question is how do i make the latch come up? I tried prying at it with a screwdriver but was afraid i would break something so i left it alone.

Thanks

 

The latch part on the hatch? did you try manually opening with the key?

 

Im not exactly sure what it is called but I tried with the key and the button and nothing happened.

 

Mine was once, actually. Could be right. My first hatch mechanism ended up stripping out also, though.. hense why it didn't work.