HELP! Battery died and can't open front hood!

[xclusivecar]

Depending on your year...find the little access panel in your passenger wheelwell and grab ahold of the wire behind it...pull hard. The front trunk will pop and the alarm may/may not go off...so grab a wrench and disconnect the battery. Now your in! I'd buy a new battery to be on the safe side.

[rubberduckie]

Thanks alot for the help. to answer Bob it is a 1997 and i would appreciate if you could further describe what your talking about as that sounds exactly like what i need. Also, Xclusivecar, when i pull that wire, im i actually pulling out so that it will have to be fixed later?? and do i actually have to disconnect the battery (I was just planning on jumpping it)?? Thanks again to everyone.. you all have given me so much more advice than Steve at Porsche ever could!

[rubberduckie]

I found a charger that plugs into the lighter and into an outlet on the wall so that I wouldn't even have to get into the hood. Would this be able to transfer enough power to at least start a completely dead battery? Here's the link to it on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AMOEPA/qid=1143524438/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/002-0524046-3323256?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=automotive&v=glance&n=15684181

[Uncle Bob]

Links to finding the cable:
http://www.babblers.org/forums/showpost.php?p=34729&postcount=6
http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/showpost.php?p=1123343&postcount=3

Battery maintainer links:
http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/showthread.php?t=104526

Link to manufacturer:
http://batterytender.com/default.php?cPath=11

[docdyh]

Instructions for this is in the manual as well...

[rubberduckie]

Sorry for all the questions. but I now have a new problem. I bought a battery charger that plugs into the cig lighter and left it charging. when i came back the car was honking (I think this must be because the windows are part way down and the car thinks it is locked). anyway, i decided to just leave it honking and let the battery charge, but with a 2volt chargeri am afraid that the honking is taking more battery than i am giving it. Would that be true? Also, is it possible to raise the windows or turn off central locking with the key only in the middle position (the place right before it would actually start the car)? I definately don't have the battery to start it, but i need to get the windows up to stop the honking and central locking off to get into the front hood to jump it. I really got myself into a problem now. I would consider pulling the cable, but i am a terrible mechanic and not even sure that i could find it or put it back together if i did.

[rubberduckie]

If i decide to pull the wire, will i have to remove the black plastic thing that it above the tire? And if so i could really use some pictures if anyone has them. I have tried almost every option (using a screwdriver to move the cam under the levers to open the doors, the cig lighter charger) but nothing has worked. this is it before i have to call the towtruck. if it comes to that, does anyone know how the dealer will open it? and have any of you guys ever heard of a dealership that will come to ones home to fix somthing like this? this whole problem has made me somewhat question Porsche. my Honda, although hardly the looks or preformance of the Box, would never have a flaw like this. Espccially when so many Porsche owners have to store their cars in the winter months, you would think that this would be a problem for many people and somthing that Porsche woudl want to fix. when i think about the fact that this may run me a couple of hundred (towing, labour, at least a complete day of time) i am feeling for the first time since i bought the car the pain of owning a Porshce. i am sure that as soon as i can get it on the road again this will change, but for now
All advice would be appreciated