Evening all (or atleast is in the UK)

My partner has a mk1 VW Tiguan (2014) when going to pop the bonnet today to change a bulb the pull lever to pop the bonnet broke.

I have removed the VW badge at the front to try access the latch with no luck.

I have tried searching online how to manually pop the bonnet however there is not much around for the model and the garage seems to think the only way is removing all the front body work to get to the cable or manually pop it.

Anyone have any experience with this that can give some guidance on how to do this? Thanks 🙏🏽