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Originally Posted by Xcellr8
JFP, I'd like to do just that. Help me get the frunk open and I will follow your advice.
Thanks, Joe
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OK, here is your quandary: The horn chirp is the alarm system, you cannot easily disable it, otherwise it would not be much of an alarm. When the battery runs down, it will chirp; if the battery were still good and was disconnected, it would go into full alarm when the cables were reconnected. All this is normal behavior for one of these cars.
If your battery is really beat, you will never be able to recharge it via the lighter socket. A low battery needs current (read amperage) to be brought back up; the lighter wiring simply cannot handle that level of current, it can only deal with the low amperage output of a maintainer. If you tried to put the current that the battery needs into the lighter, you would fry it and the wiring connected to it. Bad idea.
So now what? Well, you can start here:
https://sites.google.com/site/mikefocke2/whenyourbatteryisdead Along time ago, Mike Focke put together all the known ways to get the trunk lid open in one place........... Be sure to pay close attention to the fourth method.