My auto trunk quit working so I took the panels apart to see what I can find. This is what I saw. The bracket that supports the auto open/close actuator is broken. How does this happen?

 

Holy crap!!! I would have thought there would be a bent strut or trunk lid deformation with damage like that to the mount! Shakin' my head.

 

Looks like I can find a replacement hinge on Ebay. Now I wonder what's involved in changing this

 

wow, thats metal fatigue. Im sure a metal place could weld that up no prblm. For 29.99 replacemnt though cant get much cheaper to just change it.

 

I bet someone unfamiliar with the car tried really hard to manually close the trunk.

 

Not really, I live by myself, kid is gone and I've been the only driver of this car since I bought it years ago

 

Received the replacement Ebay trunk hinge today. Now I've gotta figure out how to get to the top bolt. Anyone with a diagram of how this is attached to the car?

 

I have the same issue.. Were you able to complete the repair and did you find instructions anywhere on how to do so? Thank you

 

I had the exact same issue a couple years ago on mine I found a really good local welding shop and they were able to spot weld it in place the guy climbed into the trunk and put up Shields to protect everything only charged 30 bucks

 

looking on this forum for something else just found this for the 221

DTB P-B-80.20/51 FEB09 trunk lid does not close using the remote trunk-closing feature this may be caused by the ball stud attaching the hydraulic cylinder of the remote trunk closing mechanism being torn out of the mounting console. A new thicker mounting console is installed.