happy 2020 & hood latch issue

[omodos]

hello to all, ok pulling on the hood lever in foot well does pop the hood but when trying to close hood it just won't, so I went back into the car i saw that the hood lever is in the same position as it was when i pull on it to release hood, lever is up a few cm's, not sure if it should retract down to original position (closed) or not after popping hood?



Only way i found i could close the hood was to push back the release lever/handle to original position prior to be pulling on it to release hood and the hood would close....


I will of course try to get round to lubing anything i can see, but not today cos wife and kids would throw a wobbly me spending new years day on an x5 niggly issue... happy nu year to all