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The trunk latch mechanism doesn’t work from inside the car because of the weight of the spoiler resting on the trunk latch.

The hinge spring is not powerful enough to provide adequate lift of the trunk when the remote release is engaged.

This causes the trunk to lock itself, when in fact, the remote release has been triggered, and the trunk itself should pop open.

The extra weight added, of the spoiler, to the existing weight of the trunk causes the lock mechanism to not work properly.
 
 

Remote Release (for trunk latch)

  The locking mechanism in the trunk works in a way that uses the force and weight of the trunk to push a pacman shaped object (counterclockwise when closing the trunk) around a small rod that in turn compresses a spring.  The compressed spring is used when the operator of the car wants to unlock the trunk.  The spring is loaded when the trunk is closed, and when the remote release lever is pulled, the spring unleashes the force it has stored to the small rod that is in the center of the pacman shaped device.  This causes the latch connected to the trunk lid to pop out of the bottom hinge.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

The problem arises because when the remote release is pulled to make the trunk lid open, the bottom latch opens and the trunk rises up from the release of tension/force provided by the loaded spring.  Then, because the trunk lid weighs so much, the top latch that was just released becomes locked again making the mechanism inside the car useless.

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