I was going to put the bend in it. However, when I tested it without the bend it worked perfectly 🤣
I guess Yankee ingenuity works👍👍👍😜
The problem is that (most) Yankees have no language skills or the desire to learn one. The German fellow who came up with this tool was quite explicit in his description:
"Der Knick bringt nur wenig Vorteile, daher ist er nicht notwendig" = the bent has little advantage and is therefore not necessary.
Along comes an ingenious yankee and thinks he reinvented the wheel, or the perhaps the can opener. 🙄 🤣 🤣
Not to mention the German tool is only good for one (right) side. The first photo shows the demonstration on the left side with the compartment open. The area in which it sits would not be accessible with the hatch closed.
So one straight tool? Or two bent tools that mirror each other?
My Hazet exhaust donut tool works well for this.
Sorry Tyler, even with the bent the tool works on both sides. But as the fellow wrote, the bent is not necessary, so your tool should work fine.
But as he also warned, if you haven't tried it on an open hatch where you can see the mechanism on both sides you will have to fiddle around for some time to open the hatch the first time you use the tool.
