Hey guys !

How can I open the trunk when battery is dead ??

Thanks DOHC

 

If your car is locked, open it with the key to gain entry. Next, remove the cover of the fuse box. Next, find the terminal in the fuse box that has a pic of a car with the hood open (mine is colored red) and pull on it. Lastly, connect a positive jumper cable to it and connect the negative jumper to the the door latch striker. Unlock the hood by using the open hood switch. Hope this helps.

 

Per the manual
1. Open the door with the key and leave the key in the doorlock.
2. Remove plastic fuse box cover
3. Pull out positive terminal (A) in the fuse box
4. Use a jumper cable to connect the positive terminal of the donor battery with the positive terminal (A) in the fuse box.
5. Use the second jumper cable to connect the negative terminal of the donor battery with the door latch striker.
If the car was locked the alarm will go off when the negative cable is connected so you have to lock and unlock the door with the key to shut the alarm off.
Basically, there is a picture of a car with it's hood up on one of the fuses and that is where you connect the positive end of the jumper cable.
The manual says the car can't be started this way. Hope this helps

Edit: Sorry 996 I think you beat me to the punch on this by a few minutess.

 

I have to admit this is an utterly a stupid way of doing this, I miss the days of just a manual pull cable....just my 2 cents

 

Just attach a battery tender to the cigarette lighter plug

 

battery tender what is that?

 

A trickle charger intended to maintain the battery charged during prolonged periods of inactivity. You can get it in walmart for like $20.

 

Thanks a lot guys ! Got it with the battery tender ! Proud to be part of the P family !

Take care !

DOHC from the north border...

 

and now you can keep your car on this tender to prevent this situation in the future

 

Mine has a pull cable for both trunk and eng compartment.

 

I'm with you on the cables..... "Maybe we're just Old-School"

-Eli

 

To Funny

 

Until the battery dies while the car is locked, then the pull cables are also locked. Then you have to jump the fuse for the central locking system to power up the system, lock and unlock the doors, then you have unlocked the cable-pulls.

 

I think DOHC said his battery was dead. But boy sounds like the locking system is meant to keep the owner out!

 

I have what seems to be a flat battery on my 996 C2. I've connected a booster to the the door pin and the + terminal in the footwell and sure enough the alarm goes off but the method in the handbook to switch it off doesn't work (turn door lock on and off) and I still can't pop the hood to get to the battery.

Any advice greatly appreciated.