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How to open the hood of the BMW iX? There are two things you need to do

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December 16, 2021
Arif Chan

In case you’ve purchased the BMW iX and you’re wondering how to open the hood, you might be a bit baffled by the lack of a conventional hood release lever.

Well, the thing is, it isn’t something entirely encouraged by BMW, and this might come as a bummer to the average motoring enthusiast.

What you need to do is to pull two release cables situated at the left and right end of the dashboard. Worry not, they don’t have to be pulled simultaneously.

They can be pulled in sequence, very much like the two-step release lever in other BMW cars. They’re not that obvious, but we hope you can find them with the help of these images provided.

Oh, and to further discourage the customer from “popping the hood”, the BMW iX doesn’t even have a proper hood prop as shown by this unit here where the hood needs to be propped up by an allen key (or anything of equivalent strength)

Allen key to prop the hood up. Doesn't look very OEM does it?

Now it makes sense why BMW made the wiper fluid funnel accessible via the BMW emblem flap. It was so that you had no reason to access the “engine bay” area. Hmmmm

They didn't do this to be fancy. They did it so you have no reason to "pop the hood"

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Arif Chan View More Posts With a deep interest and relevant experiences in the automotive industry, Arif writes about everything automotive. His employment history includes being an automotive production engineer, a highway project engineer, an alternative-fuel researcher, and a motoring journalist. In case you'd like to nerd out, you can check out his research paper here: https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ep.13749 Editor Previous Article

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