I'm a new owner, and I have looked till I am sick. How, do you open the hood????
I see no hood release in the cabin. this is my firest MB. love the car would love to see the motor. Off course the car now belongs to my wife. Boy does she like it.

THX
Kelly

Welcome to the forum

Is there no picture in the owner's manual that shows you the hood release?

ha! dont feel like a total idiot. I couldn't figure out how to open the gas door, lol. check under dash near the break release. its a flush red handle. congrats!

congrats on the new car!

lets see it

Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to get the gas door open either. I got the trunk, the hood, open, unlocked all the doors, put down all the windows...all to no avail.

Then my friend suggested just pushing on it!

In the ML, there is a finger hole and you tug, so I assumed it would be some kind of pulling motion. When I saw it was flush, I was thinking, maybe it's something fancy!

Oh we found out real quick how to put gas in it. My wife will not get out of it. I think she is going to sleep in it tonight.

So If I got this right, under the brake release is a finger hole that i pull on.

I'm going to check now.

Thnaks guys,

Kelly

lol. no. its directly under the dash/steering wheel.... follow where your headlamp switch is, alllllllllll the way down and under the dash. you'll see a red handle... pull it then voila!

Its the large red handle. Its quite obvious just look under your steering wheel area and to the left. At first I thought this was a fuse box or something until I had to search this forum to find out it was the hood release.

By the way, once you pop that one, you will have another handle to pull that will be sticking out your front grill before it releases the hood.

near your brake release