l can not afford a Haynes Manual for it yet and l need to open the bonnet.l can release the catch under the dashboard but l am havig problems with the manual catch under the bonnet itself.l can feel the squarish plastic part that l think must be the catch but l can not work out how to manipulate this to open the bonnet - is there some trick to this?
l can not legally take the car out of my garden and l have no money.l need to open the bonnet to be able to get the engine block number for a SORN certificate so l do not get fined £1000 for not paying road tax for
a car l can not use for a month or two.

l have found the catch inside the bonnet but as l said before l can not find any direction that it will push in to open the bonnet.Is there some unusual trick to doing this?
l have had 7 different cars before and all of them have not had this problem.
The car is less than 3 years old and the grill is undamaged.

there should be a little clip under the bonnet and u just flick it a pull that should do the trick..cya

the owners manual will tell you, failing that the latch could be jammed through corrosion. have a friend check it out before going to a garage

you ought to be able to declare sorn without the engine number just the regstration number has always been enough for me (i have only just declared sorn a few weeks ago myself) but the relese catch under the dash might not have relesed properly so give that another go as well