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YOUR RESEARCHCan't open bonnet - pls help!
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Disconnect the alarm horn, re-connect something with power to the battery leads, and unlock your car.
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Hi guys, I removed my battery the other day because I haven't driven her in a couple of months and it had gone flate. I've just charged it and need to fit it back, but I can't get the bonnet to open - the lever doesn't seem to work. Is there an alternative way to open it?
Thanks
This extract from the
Boxster FAQ
, should be equally applicable to the 996...
The Boxster has a minor difficulty. If you have the alarm and the battery goes dead, you cannot open the front trunk to get to the battery to jump start it. There have been three techniques discussed for entering the front trunk when this problem manifests itself.
1. There is a Porsche Technical Bulletin describing one way that works for entering the car. See Front and Rear Hood Release Inoperative
[grp5 1-96 5510 1-21-97]
. A description of what one owner did to construct the device mentioned in the bulletin is shown at http://grr.xoc.net/boxster/articles/dooropener.asp .
2. It may work that a cigarette lighter to cigarette lighter jumper cable will power the car enough to open the car. This has not been confirmed to work, though. Make sure that you carry the jumper cables in the passenger section of the car, otherwise you won't be able to get them when they are needed!
3. Inside the top of the driver's front wheel well, just aft of the spring coil mount, is a little rectangular corner in the black plastic shroud that lines the inside of the wheel well. Reach under this, and you will feel a "wire" about 1/8" in diameter. Too thick for an electrical wire (and not in a harness anyway).
Now tug this cable gently out from behind the shroud and get a good grip on a loop of it. Now pull hard away from the headlight once, and prepare to hear the music of the alarm as the front hood pops open. Grab a 10mm wrench and take off one of the battery cables to silence this thing until you can get your key in the ignition and disarm the thing.
Disconnect the alarm horn, re-connect something with power to the battery leads, and unlock your car.
You need a pair of jump leads, attach one to the drivers door catch & the other to the orange pull terminal item that you will find under the fuse box cover (& on the diagrams). they have to connected correctly +/- . Best of luck.
Grant,
You are correct, but I'm not sure the earlier "lever open" models had this?
If they do then that is certainly the easier option (and in the handbook!))
