Help - Locked out - Dead battery

[BERGS2]

Wondering if anyone can offer advice.

My Jeep has a dead battery - the remote will not unlock the doors so I cannot get under the bonnet to charge the battery

The keys won turn manually in either the drivers side, passanger or boot locks -

Pretty stumped by this one as can't seem to find a way of either unlocking the car or charging the battery.....

Just to compund matters - have a fella interested in buying it scheduled to come round tomorrow

any advice on how i can get into the car would be most gratefully recieved.

Cheers

its a MY 2000 old shape cherokee

[Marky Boy]

Connect a battery charger to the connections on the starter motor underneath the car. Should give you enough current to unlock the doors.

HTH.

[thinfourth2]

jump leads onto the positive terminal of the starter

[BERGS2]

Marky Boy said:

Connect a battery charger to the connections on the starter motor underneath the car. Should give you enough current to unlock the doors.

HTH.

can't get to the starter motor under the car



parked with the front of the car in a bush....

bu66er - looks like a callout job.

[Cyberprog]

BERGS2 said:

can't get to the starter motor under the car



parked with the front of the car in a bush....

bu66er - looks like a callout job.

Chop bush down? it'll be cheaper!

Back-feed via the towing electrics maybe?

[McSam]

How common is it that a dead battery actually means you can't open the door at all?! That's mental.

Then again, it is a Jeep

[PhilJ2011]

I had the same issue a couple of weeks ago - completely flat battery. I was able to get in via tailgate. If you haven't already, chuck some penetrating oil into the locks - the tailgate is the most likely to come free, as it is the most likely to have been used manually.

Be warned that the battery will take some charging - a mates huge charger needed a few hours before dropping from putting 20 amps into the battery to 10.

[tercelgold]

BERGS2 said:

parked with the front of the car in a bush....

Anyway to to move it out of the bush?

[Marky Boy]

Can you not just slide under the car from the rear. It's a jeep so you should have clearance. If not get someone skinny to do it.

I should imagine that this is a rather common problem. It's happened to me a couple of times.

[redgriff500]

Happened to my daughters 206.

I tried charging via the side repeater - didn't work.

But I then jacked it up and got power to the alternator which enabled me to unlock the doors.

[oldcynic]

tercelgold said:

Anyway to to move it out of the bush?

Could use the Jeep to pull the bush out...?

[BERGS2]

tercelgold said:

Anyway to to move it out of the bush?

not without getting into it.

its parked on soft, uneven ground so jacking it is a bit tricky.

does anyone know where the starter/alternator is on a 2.5TD cherokee?

[oldcynic]

A quick google turned up the following thread - looks like you just need a thin wedge prising the top edge of the drivers door open, then something to poke at the lock lever to unlock it.

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/f5/flat-battery-locke...

Plenty of hits when I googled "jeep cherokee locked flat battery" so I'm sure there'll be other answers out there.

[Globs]

How do you know it's dead? It could just be sleeping..





Else if you can reach the solenoid connection from under the car you can charge it up from there..

[NHK244V]

I know when this happens on BMWs you need to turn the key and lift the handle when the batteruy is dead to open the door?

[spikeyhead]

Globs said:

How do you know it's dead? It could just be sleeping..

It's not dead, just pining for the fjords

[RoverP6B]

NHK244V said:

I know when this happens on BMWs you need to turn the key and lift the handle when the batteruy is dead to open the door?

Apologies for necroposting, but I have this problem with my E66 760Li, which has been off the road for almost a year, thanks to the pandemic and a misfire on all twelve cylinders. It's a 55-reg LCI, if that helps. Lock barrels on the driver's door and bootlid both refusing to turn. Tried the trick above, to no avail. Anyone got any ideas?