Dead Battery; Hood won't open.

[luci5r]

Originally Posted by Jager

If you remove both terminals from the battery posts you will need to connect both clamps of the battery charger to the battery.

If you remove just the positive terminal you can connect the battery charger the way you described.

Ah! Thanks for the correction. I always thought you never clamp both clips on the battery.

So at this point, I just plugged the battery charger to the battery and started the charging process.

I removed the positive terminal from the positive battery post and clipped the positive clamp from the battery charger on it. I left the negative terminal on the negative battery post, so I clipped the negative clamp from the battery charger on to the metallic latch on the hood.

Fired up the Battery Charger; set up my options (it's mostly automatic), and the 'Charging' LED came right on. So it looks like it's started the charging process. I will give it a good 6 ~ 7 hour charge before I test anything.

Originally Posted by Jager

BTW... How old is your battery?

I have the Interstate MTP-91 Battery (Batteries - Mega-Tron Plus 91 Automotive Battery Six-Year Performance 700 CCA).

I got this '05 Boxster 987 in April, 2013, with about $40K miles on it. I can't categorically state how old the battery is, cause quite frankly I do not know. Last week when I had called in help to jump start the car, the mechanic did look at the battery and tell me that the battery looks really new, like a couple years old. That it doesn't seem to have any wear on it.

A new one isn't very expensive; only around $148. That's a route I'm willing consider at some point if necessary. I don't really know much about what should be the life expectancy of these things.

Either way, I'll see how it makes out with the charging.

Thanks!