focijohn
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:28 PM |
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Porsche Boxster, dead battery, help!!
Evening,
Anyone have one or worked on one when the battery goes flat as a fart? One of our customers has one and is as follows..... drivers door wont close
passengers will not open and cant access and of the boot or bonnet as they are electronicly controlled. Is there a fail safe that would allow you to
open the bonnet / boot manually, the old school way with a pull cord?
Forgot to ask the year as it had a private plate would have said between 95-01.
Its an auto too so cant pull it out of park to move it out of the cramped garage its in.
I thought maybe trying to jack it up and finding the starter?
There was another sujestion of charging it through the lighter socket on a very slow trickle charge.
Or even better someone tell me how to get into the bonnet or boot of the flaming thing.
Cheers
John
Anyone going slower than you is an idiot. Anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Too many targets but too few bullets.
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rayward
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:37 PM |
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there's an emergency bonnet release wire to pull,
you need to pull back the wheel arch liner (drivers side i think) to acces it
hth
Ray
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:39 PM |
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Oh dear not another one. A friends one shut its self down in the underground car park at Edinburgh airport.......
They used skates to tow it out and porsche had it for a few weeks trying to reset it.
It was costly and they had to crack the management module.
It was like the curse of death was cast over that car......outllook not good
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focijohn
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:40 PM |
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Ta, i was hoping something like that was avalible... seems pointless to not have a backup.
Were hoping its just becuase the battery is dead flat (not been used scince NOv 08).
Altho he did say that the MIL light came on the last time he drove it and was coughing etc.... limped it home and there it lies.
[Edited on 24/3/09 by focijohn]
Anyone going slower than you is an idiot. Anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Too many targets but too few bullets.
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Eggy
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:46 PM |
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I would use the cigar lighter socket to power it up just enough to release the bonnet??
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scottc
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:56 PM |
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similar to the bosses 911....
find the fuse box, footwell on drivers side (on LHD). Red big fuse thing, pull this out, the connect the + of a batt charger to this, and the - to the
door lock (U shaped bracket on rear arch). this should give you enough power to open the bonnet and then charge the battery properly.
ETA: might want to confirm the + and - way roundness before doing this.
[Edited on 24/3/09 by scottc]
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fazerruss
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 09:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Eggy
I would use the cigar lighter socket to power it up just enough to release the bonnet??
Dont know about porsches but not all production cars have the cig lighter live without the ignition on/relays energised
"if assholes could fly this place would be an airport"
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JoelP
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 10:10 PM |
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id say its definately easier to put jump leads on the starter terminals. Then you know you're getting a good boost quickly.
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roadrunner
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 10:13 PM |
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If all else fails, i have a Stihl saw you could borrow.
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focijohn
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 10:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by roadrunner
If all else fails, i have a Stihl saw you could borrow.
Ill let the boss know..... good job i dnt air some of my thoughts about getting in. Could have lead to me being sacked. Customer and boss were looking
at me like i was odd when i was chuckling.
Anyone going slower than you is an idiot. Anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Too many targets but too few bullets.
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scottc
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| posted on 24/3/09 at 10:43 PM |
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From:-
http://www.986faq.com/7-0/default.asp#009
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.
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 .
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!
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.
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Simon
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| posted on 25/3/09 at 12:25 AM |
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Alternatively, phone Porsche, tell them it's their design cockup and get them to open it.
ATB
Simon
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