Battery is dead, can't open the trunk(searched threads)

[BeachBum]

Hi Everybody. My car battery is dead and I can't open the trunk to charge the battery. I know, not a new thing on this forum. What I can't understand is on my 03 boxster S, it has a specific spot in the fuse panel where I can attach the positive end of the jumper cables to and the negative end to the frame and it is supposed to work. I used a battery charger as my source, but despite hooking it up and waiting 2 hours, I still can't open the trunk. My car battery charger has an indicator when it is charging and it never came on. I can't get into the wheel well in order to try to get at that cable everyone talks about and I can't remove the wheel in order to get there because my low profile car jack is---you guessed it---in the trunk. I purchased a battery charger/maintainer that plugs into the cigarette lighter but the manual said that if the battery was super dead, it wouldn't charge...which it didn't. Any thoughts? Anyone with experience with those cigarette lighter to cigarette lighter car chargers?

Thanks,

Greg

[graemewior]

if you remove the drivers side tire and the plastic cover that encloses the wheel well you will have access to the cable that runs from the trunk release inside the car to the front trunk. carefully pull towards the car on the cable and it should pop the front trunk. i had to do the same thing once before.

[Steve Tinker]

You really need a separate 12v battery instead of a charger as your main means of energy to the fuse box / chassis connection points....

[Iflylow]

A normal set of jumper cables, attached to the two points, without the donor car running, is enough to pop the hood.

[BeachBum]

Thanks for the quick replies. I guess it's just ignorance on my part, but I was concerned that by hooking up a donor car to these connection points on my car might fry some electrical circuit. Is this not a concern?

Greg

[Pierre]

I open mine with a battery charger plug in the cigarette lighter, thats work many times for me whitout any problem