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Old 03-09-2007, 06:46 PM   #1
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Finally popped my hood!!

AS you may have known, I have had the dilemna of trying to pop my trunk in order to get to my battery on my 2001 Box. Cig lighter to Cig lighter would not work...battery completely dead!!
I ran out to Walmart and for $45 I bought the Black and Decker Simple start Battery Booster. Took it home, charged it up with the included AC adapter and when I plugged the cig male adapter from the battery booster into my cars cig lighter receptacle...wham, bam, slam. Dome light, everything lit up and popped my hood, no problem, easy, no long wires or unnecessary fooling around.
It is the Black/Decker BB7B. It is very small but powerful and quite compact. I urge everone to check into it or just look it up and check into it; I was very impressed!

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Old 03-09-2007, 07:09 PM   #2
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you know there is a cable in your passinger side front grille that you can pull and it will open up the hood for you, free
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Old 03-09-2007, 07:29 PM   #3
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Do you know exactly where that is and how hard it is to access?
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Old 03-09-2007, 07:42 PM   #4
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you know there is a cable in your passinger side front grille that you can pull and it will open up the hood for you, free
I thought that was something you had to do when you had the bumper off? As far as I knew and have seen from taking the bumper off it has to accessed by taking the front bumper off.
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if you look around ther you can definitely find it, i found mine there.
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Old 03-09-2007, 07:51 PM   #6
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That sounds like more work than I have ambition for The B/D Battery Booster worked great!
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Old 03-10-2007, 08:13 AM   #7
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Hi,

I routed my Emergency Cable to just behind the left side grill opening. It's tucked aay and you have to look for it to see it, but it's right there if I ever need it, works great...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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Hi,

I routed my Emergency Cable to just behind the left side grill opening. It's tucked aay and you have to look for it to see it, but it's right there if I ever need it, works great...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
i have mine in the same general area, but where does it sit from the factory? in the same area or what?
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Old 04-18-2007, 05:23 PM   #9
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guy's...now my front hood wont open...i found the cable, pulled it out and nothing happen. what to do now...I need your help...my son's backpack and homework are in there
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And so you know, you had a 'dilemma', not a 'dilemna'




Glad the doohickey worked for ya.
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And so you know, you had a 'dilemma', not a 'dilemna'




Glad the doohickey worked for ya.

I need help opening up my front trunk coz' my son's homework is in there not help in spelling

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