Ok I feel like an idiot asking this. But I swear to god I have looked in the manual and didnt see this anywhere. I find it hard to believe that it can only be opened by the button on the key. So forgive my ignorance while you type the answer.

 

unforntunately nissan is ****in retarded and only made it open by the key.

 

no ****! I thought they just hid it in some stupid place. I literaly looked everywhere before consulting the idiot book. In that case I hate the fact that you have to trun the car off to open it up.

 

under the rear strut bar, there's a string you pull to open the hatch. i had my z for 2 years before i heard about it.

 

check under your strut bar in the back...grab the latch and pull the string...

 

The pull string under the strut bar is an emergency switch to open hatch. How about press key fob to open truck while inside car? Hard to believe Nissan did not provide a means to open hatch!

 

Who is ****ing retarded now? LOL jk.

I knew about it first day I had the car, because I didnt know how to open trunk, it said about the little button by the license plate and the string under the strut bar....I didnt know when I would ever be trapped under the strut bar, but who knows, lol.

 

There is a button above the license plate to open from outside the Zzzz.

 

its easy. you just gotta put on a pair of boots.

then you lay down in the trunk with your back to the floor, and kick the freaken windows open. that''ll teach your stupid Z to not open.

 

I checked the table of contents in my owner's manual.
In chapter 3, the section on "secondary rear hatch
release" is what you want. It's on page 3-10 in my
manual.

Took me all of 10 seconds to find and that includes waiting
for my PC to fire up the Acrobat Reader.

 

why would you have to turn off the car; just push the unlock button and open the hatch. As mentioned earlier, there is a button above the rear license plate.

 

i spent 30mins looking and cursing nissan for not having a button besides the remote before i found this after i first got my car... (my car didn't have its owners manual)

 

I'm going with the key fob while still inside the car, although I've never had a reason to do that. I'm more of a stand in front of the hatch and press the key fob kind of guy.

 

I dont really see the big deal, if your car is running you just hit the unlock button and use the button outside the car to open the hatch, if the car is not running just hit the button on the remote.

The release that is inside the car isnt really an emergency escape becuase you could obviously climb into the front seat from the back of the car. Its a direct pull on the latch assembly so that if the actuator the releases the hatch fails, you can still open it.

I cant beleive someone hasnt said to "SEARCH", this topic has been covered way too many times.

 

I was wondering when someone was going to say this.

 

The owners manual is amazing!

 

+1

 

had no clue. learn something new everyday i guess.

 

omg...we need to start a sticky to post all the little things in the manual...oh wait, there IS already a manual in every car...doh!!

 

A little off topic but try finding the fuel release button in an s2000 very annoying.