Guys,

I had recently tried to get into my trunk after the battery had died from not being driven.

The easiest solution I could find was to open the fuse box, there is a red box with the trunk release showing, pull it out so the metal contacts show, and just click the positive end of another doner battery (I used one of those portable battery jumpers) and clipping the negative to the metal clip on the frame of the car.

It seemed easy enough but after 15 minutes of trying, nothing.

I was just about to go home, realized because my window was also be sitting weird now, so forced myself to try it again.

The key, was to have your key in the door, and after you hook up the pos/neg, actually turn the key left and right a few times. Alarm started going off and I was able to click the trunk to release.

Hope this helps!

 

Good tip. Never know when you might need that...and finding that stainless steel string under the bumper is never easy.

 

I actually have been having a weird problem with my trunk release. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't release the latch. There is a sound like it is being actuated but the latch just doesn't release. So, where is the "stainless steel string" under the bumper?

 

Get your latch adjusted. see here

 

The steel braided wire...not string.....is sitting behind your passenger side headlight. If you open your toolkit and take out the tool that releases your headlight latch (you have to unscrew that black plastic screw on the interior liner and pry your liner away from the side)...then insert the tool in the slot on the side of the headlight and rotate it about 180 degrees...your headlight will slide forward and come all the way out..and you can see the wire lying there. Many folks re-route that wire so that it can be accessed by reaching up inside the front grill (hide the wire so it cant' be seen) without having to open your trunk.

I don't recall if the procedure is covered in your owner's manual. Once you've seen it done, it's simple. Takes about 3 minutes to take out your headlight module.

 

Yup! I was searching for what to do with the dead battery and releasing the trunk. Seemed the easiest thing to do (and is what Porsche suggests) is to just jump the trunk thru the fuse box). it truly would be a 2 minute ordeal, just ended up a lot longer since I didn't turn the key around!

 

Good tip

 

With the front plastic bumper cover removed you can see the cable...

 

This of course assumes your toolkit isn't locked in the trunk.

 

The objective of the writeup was to encourage folks to do the re-route of the cable BEFORE you ran into a situation that required you to open it with the alternative method.

 

Guys,
I did also see the writeup about the cable pull which looks to be useful as well. I came close to needing to do that method.
In any regard, IMO, the easiest way to deal with a dead trunk is just jumping the release. As long as you have access to jumper cables and battery when the car has fully died, it won't require you to take anything apart, etc.
Hope it helps when it happens and people do a search!
Jack