HELP! How do I open boot with dead battery?

[leemarkadams]

Hello all, just been to my garage to fire the car up, as not been driven for a few weeks and the battery is flat!

Now the car has the leven mod that gives the battery booster connector in the engine bay...BUT the other end is in the boot!!!!

So, if I can get in the boot then it should just be a case of connecting it up and jump starting the Tiv..

There must be a way in to the boot....

The car doors are open and all that (luckily) as I leave them slightly ajar in the garage just in case!

DO NOT ENTER HERE!
sorry for the edit.. Big Al.


email me (PLEASE!!!)

Thanks

Lee

Edited by Big Al. on Thursday 5th July 21:30

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Lee

People won't post the answer on here. Mail somebody who knows you for the answer.

[leemarkadams]

Don't know anybody well enough......

The thing is, the doors are open, the bonnet is open, I just want to get into the boot!!!

Lee

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

leemarkadams said:

Don't know anybody well enough......

The thing is, the doors are open, the bonnet is open, I just want to get into the boot!!!

Lee

Can't remember, but is there a clue in the handbook that usually lives in the cubby hole behind the seats?

[dingg]

check your mail lee

[Big Al.]

YHM

[GreenV8S]

Connect an external 12V supply to any electrical point on the car, and operate the boot release as normal. The battery in the passenger's footwell is an obvious place to connect to. I don't have that luxury because on the V8S the battery is in the boot (yes it has the same electric boot release!) so I've used the main power terminal on the back of the alternator to apply enough power with jump leads to pop the boot.

If you get really stuck then you can apply 12v directly to the boot release relay socket and operate it that way.

[Jay Ayegees]

It would be very difficult to open your boot with a dead battery - too heavy and blunt - try a crowbar instead.

[spend]

Any kind of connector placed in the front under-tray is worth its weight in gold for these odd occasions

I'll bow to your experience re the battery Jigs, you must have had a plentiful supply of those £40 072's to try with I imagine

Dave

[leemarkadams]

spend said:

Any kind of connector placed in the front under-tray is worth its weight in gold for these odd occasions

I'll bow to your experience re the battery Jigs, you must have had a plentiful supply of those £40 072's to try with I imagine

Dave

Could try that method...may leave a few holes in the bootlid mind!!

[leemarkadams]

Thanks for all the help everyone, going to give it atry tonight hopefully, failing that I guess it is just a case of connecting a 12v supply and trying that!

Lee

[tobeee]

eeeeK! Never leave the doors open, as the interior light will drain the battery (apparently the doors only need to be slightly ajar, without the light on, and it'll still drain). I'd just leave a window open if anything.

Can't help with getting into the boot I'm afraid, as I never needed to and never did work out how!

Got the plates and cert by the way, so thanks for that!

Good luck!

[TVR keith]

tobeee said:

eeeeK! Never leave the doors open, as the interior light will drain the battery (apparently the doors only need to be slightly ajar, without the light on, and it'll still drain). I'd just leave a window open if anything.

Can't help with getting into the boot I'm afraid, as I never needed to and never did work out how!

Got the plates and cert by the way, so thanks for that!

Good luck!

And even if you turn the interior light off i believe I read that there is still some current drain through the alarm because the doors are open

[spend]

Its just as easy to leave the window (or even hood) down as leaving the doors open, isn't it?

Dave

[leemarkadams]

Will do that from now on...will leave a window open I feel!

Lee

[bigdods]

Am I missing something here ? Doors are open. Battery is in the passenger footwell. Open door. Attach charger to battery. Job done.

[steve-V8s]

bigdods said:

Am I missing something here ? Doors are open. Battery is in the passenger footwell. Open door. Attach charger to battery. Job done.

Yes what I thought as well

[spend]

Theres no eccentricity in that you boring devils

[mouseymousey]

leemarkadams said:

Now the car has the leven mod that gives the battery booster connector in the engine bay...BUT the other end is in the boot!!!!

I think he's saying that half of his booster kit is in the boot, i.e. the bit you'd normally attach to the battery is stuck in the boot.

(I did exactly the same thing myself - took bloody ages to get into the boot!)

[spend]

As I said "Eccentrickery"....