Porsche Boxster 2002 Dead Battery Can't Open Front Boot HELP
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Help please.
This problem is driving me beyond bonkers.
Battery drains completely dead (open door using key, no alarm sounding) and I can't access the battery to charge.
Ended up having to call out National well know breakdown twice over the past 6 months and both times they have opened the front bonnet first time using a heavy duty portable jump starter (red pull out fuse/positive, door hinge/negative - Flick bonnet release, POP).
So I've bought one (Clarke Jump Start 4000) and I go through the same procedure and it DOESN'T OPEN THE BONNET. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Why???? Any suggestions from someone who understands the nuances of this particular process/electrics?
Does it require a portable heavy duty jump starter with some kind of isolation switch (otherwise there is no current coming from the portable jump starter as it isn't connected to a battery)?? I just want to be able to reliably open the front bonnet myself as charging/swapping out the battery is simple.
Any advice much appreciated.
PS: Age old problem, had the car for 14 years, it's part of the family, car is parked outside without access to electricity so trickle charger not an option. I only usually use it to do one 3000 mile trip per year and then maybe a few more times so I have to run it stationary for 45 minutes each week to keep it topped up and have started to use a solar trickle charger but when I go away it's a bit of a lottery.
This problem is driving me beyond bonkers.
Battery drains completely dead (open door using key, no alarm sounding) and I can't access the battery to charge.
Ended up having to call out National well know breakdown twice over the past 6 months and both times they have opened the front bonnet first time using a heavy duty portable jump starter (red pull out fuse/positive, door hinge/negative - Flick bonnet release, POP).
So I've bought one (Clarke Jump Start 4000) and I go through the same procedure and it DOESN'T OPEN THE BONNET. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Why???? Any suggestions from someone who understands the nuances of this particular process/electrics?
Does it require a portable heavy duty jump starter with some kind of isolation switch (otherwise there is no current coming from the portable jump starter as it isn't connected to a battery)?? I just want to be able to reliably open the front bonnet myself as charging/swapping out the battery is simple.
Any advice much appreciated.
PS: Age old problem, had the car for 14 years, it's part of the family, car is parked outside without access to electricity so trickle charger not an option. I only usually use it to do one 3000 mile trip per year and then maybe a few more times so I have to run it stationary for 45 minutes each week to keep it topped up and have started to use a solar trickle charger but when I go away it's a bit of a lottery.
I feel your pain! I've owned a 2002 911 and a 2008 Cayman, and I've had the same problems. Smaller jumpstarters didn''t always let me immediately open the front hatch, but sometimes leaving it for 10 minutes worked. There are a few articles on Porsche forums about how to find your way to the cable, which is behind the wheel arch plastic panels. I've never got to that level of desperation, but apparently it's not that hard.
You might look into a small solar trickle charger that lives on top of the dashboard.
You might look into a small solar trickle charger that lives on top of the dashboard.
Bandol said:
Thank you.
When leaving the jump starter attached for 10 minutes before it would operate the bonnet release - did you have to do anything with the key too?
So far as I remember, I'd use the key to manually unlock the door, connect the charger, then after a while I'd start alternately trying the release in the car and the one on the key. Fairly often, the alarm would go off so I'd use the key's unlock button to make it shut up. At some random point during the sequence of button pressing and swearwords, the front lid would pop open. I think this worked about 90% of the time once I got the hang of it. FWIW, the 9x6 seemed a lot stroppier than the 9x7.When leaving the jump starter attached for 10 minutes before it would operate the bonnet release - did you have to do anything with the key too?
Incidentally, don't put the charger in the front boot like I did on a trip through Germany.
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