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Spellino
09-26-2017, 03:25 PM
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Hi everyone. I had a problem with my 2007 Yaris sedan's trunk. It won't open with a key or the thing u push up to open by the driver side. Thanks to some of your inputs here, I managed to open it through the boot. As I was doing it though, the attached pin came out of the lock system. Everything works now, opening with key, closing. Sensor on the dash. Everything. But I'm curious to know what and where this pin Is supposed to be?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
nortonfb
09-27-2017, 09:19 AM
Looks like a an attempt to break in.
WeeYari
09-27-2017, 05:50 PM
Yeah, that definitely looks like a foreign object that somehow got in there.

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NYC-SE
09-27-2017, 05:55 PM
It looks like the ball end of a cable. Does the sedan have an in car trunk release? Does it work?
Spellino
09-27-2017, 06:18 PM
It looks like the ball end of a cable. Does the sedan have an in car trunk release? Does it work?


Yes. And it works.
NYC-SE
09-28-2017, 02:01 AM
Perhaps it was a leftover from a previous repair.
Spellino
09-28-2017, 02:51 AM
Perhaps it was a leftover from a previous repair.

Ok. Maybe. I must add also that the fuel door release doesn't work either and the end of the release that goes there to is hanging in the trunk. However it doesn't have one of these pins at the end of it. I don't know if I am making sense. I will post pictures of it very soon
WeeYari
09-28-2017, 08:51 AM
Take a picture of your object beside a ruler or a coin so we can appreciate its size. To me it looks very tiny, like you say, a pin. To others it is appearing large enough to be a piece of linkage cable.

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nortonfb
09-28-2017, 09:10 AM
Looks like what used to be called a "hat pin".
It appears to be bent, no longer straight.
My bet it was a primitive attempt to move the tumblers.
Spellino
09-28-2017, 09:48 AM
Take a picture of your object beside a ruler or a coin so we can appreciate its size. To me it looks very tiny, like you say, a pin. To others it is appearing large enough to be a piece of linkage cable.

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It's just about 4 cm
NYC-SE
09-28-2017, 12:01 PM
Ok. Maybe. I must add also that the fuel door release doesn't work either and the end of the release that goes there to is hanging in the trunk. However it doesn't have one of these pins at the end of it. I don't know if I am making sense. I will post pictures of it very soon

That's what it is. It used to be part of the cable for the fuel door release. How it ended up where it did I don't know.
Spellino
09-28-2017, 12:03 PM
That's what it is. It used to be part of the cable for the fuel door release. How it ended up where it did I don't know.

Yeah I suspect so.
WeeYari
09-28-2017, 12:20 PM
How do you open your fuel door?

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Spellino
09-28-2017, 01:17 PM
How do you open your fuel door?

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I just push the back end of it and it opens.
Spellino
09-28-2017, 01:21 PM
How do you open your fuel door?

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Sorry I sent the wrong picture