Some time ago my son, who's a filmmaker, got in the bad habit of cramming, even force fitting, his equipment into the trunk of the E300. As a result, a while back the trunk became slightly misaligned (raised up a bit on the left side) so that it was difficult to latch (although he was still able to latch it). Now it won't close at all and I notice that part of the plastic on the trunk part of the latch system is broken off.

What all is involved in realigning the trunk and replacing the latch? I'll probably have my indie do it (especially since my son is paying for it...ha!), but I thought I would at least try to understand how to effect repairs and perhaps do it myself.

Part of me wonders if the piece of broken plastic really doesn't affect anything and that if I would just figure out how to realign the trunk everything would be back to normal.

Thanks.

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