WTF issue: a strap caught in the mechanism for the trunk

[SVT_Power]

I should've taken a picture while I was at home but basically a golf bag strap got caught in the mechanism for the trunk of the explorer. So it's shut but we can't open it because the mechanism is not doing whatever it needs to do to unhook from the floor. So it's almost like the trunk lock is engaged.

Has anyone ever encountered something like this? And what the hell do I do...?

[VTEC_Inside]

Pull the interior panel off and go from there.

[FoMoJo]

Sounds like a tough one.  I doubt you can get the interior panel off with the door shut; if it's anything like my Escape.  I'd try working the golf strap out; if it tears, so much the better because it'll be easier to remove.

[S204STi]

Sounds like a tough one.  I doubt you can get the interior panel off with the door shut; if it's anything like my Escape.  I'd try working the golf strap out; if it tears, so much the better because it'll be easier to remove.

+1

Sometimes brute force and ignorance works well too.  Have someone hold the trunk release button while two people pull upwards really hard.  Might do it.

[VTEC_Inside]

I should have added if possible to my comment. I was able to remove the door panel off one of the rear doors in my brothers old corolla with the door shut, but it was tricky... (long story)

[S204STi]

I should have added if possible to my comment. I was able to remove the door panel off one of the rear doors in my brothers old corolla with the door shut, but it was tricky... (long story)

Yeah, sometimes it works.  You can overpower clips, bend panels, etc.  I looked like a raging chimp the other day bracing my feet at waist height and pulling, yanking, jerking, pulling (etc) with all my might on an interior door panel on an Acadia door that wouldn't open from inside or out.  I was able to access the latch and didn't damage the panel either, despite my violence.

[Onslaught]

I'd just take it to a body shop. I have to fix crap like that all the time for free. That said I can't really tell you what to try without looking at it.

As others have said you probably can get the interior panel off. But it won't be easy.

[NomisR]

Remember that scene from Back to the Future where Marty McFly got trapped in the trunk with the keys?  Yeah that..

[VTEC_Inside]

Remember that scene from Back to the Future where Marty McFly got trapped in the trunk with the keys?  Yeah that..

Hire a pot smoking African American prom band to watch as their guitarist opens it and slices his hand with a flat head screwdriver?

Can you play the guitar Ed?

[SVT_Power]

Hire a pot smoking African American prom band to watch as their guitarist opens it and slices his hand with a flat head screwdriver?

Can you play the guitar Ed?

no

[VTEC_Inside]

no

Well NomisR's plan wouldn't work then :P