guys I need help ASAP PLEASE - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

stugots · 10-28-2007, 05:44 PM

I just had a death in my family and in less then 12 hours is the funeral, I have 1 car at the present time and its my 2000 Boxster S, heres my issue.

Battery is dead as a door nail (to the point where a cig lighter charger wont do ANYTHING) and my hood is locked, the pin on the passenger side just BROKE when I tried to use it to open the hood PLEASE HELP

stugots · 10-28-2007, 05:47 PM

also since I bought the car I have been looking for that "red jumper" in the fuse box and have never found it, is it possible my car does not have it?

does anyone have a pic of a fuse box and can point to this "phantom"

NickCats · 10-28-2007, 06:01 PM

stugots,

Sorry for your loss. Hopefully this will help...

Nick

mikefocke · 10-28-2007, 06:07 PM

Link

Info on batteries for the Boxster and link at the top to a page on getting at the battery when it is dead

stugots · 10-28-2007, 07:17 PM

I tried all these nothing seems to work, jumping the C3 fuse in the box gave me power to the entire car EXCEPT to use the fob to unlock the hood

djomlas · 10-28-2007, 07:28 PM

try looking at the passenger side front grill area, and see if you can locate a wire, and pull it, that will unlatch your bonnet.

edevlin · 10-29-2007, 02:51 AM

I dont know if it is the same process as putting power to the fuse panel, but have you tried putting power through the lighter? They have adaptors with cables that plug in and you can hook them to a battery, supposedly it gives enough power to the system to open the hood (I have never tried it, but carry the adaptor), best of luck,

Ed

stugots · 10-29-2007, 02:07 PM

I want to THANK EVERYONE SOOOO MUCH, for all the help, on the 3rd (i did it the exact same way all 3 times so thats weird) hoking the jumper to the C3 fuse and using the Fob to unlock worked.

so needless to say I made it IN TIME today and I own it all you all of you.

again thanks you all so much

only odd thing now is my passenger side window wont seem to open it just clicks wonder what thats about? is this normal after what I just got through doing?