Front Trunk Locked - battery dead, security locked???? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Marty97 · 09-01-2018, 11:38 AM

Thank you! I was able to pull the cable from behind the fuse box and popped it open. Charging the battery right now and thanks to the advise below I will make sure everything is dry before attempting to fire anything up. Have a feeling I might be taking a trip on a tow truck on the ferry to get it fixed

Geof3 · 09-01-2018, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Marty97

Thank you! I was able to pull the cable from behind the fuse box and popped it open. Charging the battery right now and thanks to the advise below I will make sure everything is dry before attempting to fire anything up. Have a feeling I might be taking a trip on a tow truck on the ferry to get it fixed

Cable from behind the fuse box? That’s not what the above is talking about. There is a box under the drivers seat called the immobilizer. It controls pretty much all of the systems of the car, to one degree or another. This is the box that he referred too. Leave the fuse box alone.

Marty97 · 09-02-2018, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Geof3

Cable from behind the fuse box? That’s not what the above is talking about. There is a box under the drivers seat called the immobilizer. It controls pretty much all of the systems of the car, to one degree or another. This is the box that he referred too. Leave the fuse box alone.

No worries.. the cable to open the frunk is located behind the fuse box (easier than accessing the emergency frunk cable).. simple tug on the cable opened the frunk allowing me to get to the battery to charge it. Now i start work on removing the seat and checking the immobilizer which was replaced about 5 years ago - hoping it's salvageable. Sorry for any confusion, addressing several issues on this and have a feeling i'll be running into a few other unknowns shorty

Geof3 · 09-02-2018, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Marty97

No worries.. the cable to open the frunk is located behind the fuse box (easier than accessing the emergency frunk cable).. simple tug on the cable opened the frunk allowing me to get to the battery to charge it. Now i start work on removing the seat and checking the immobilizer which was replaced about 5 years ago - hoping it's salvageable. Sorry for any confusion, addressing several issues on this and have a feeling i'll be running into a few other unknowns shorty

Ah, I think older models have a different setup? Mine is an 02 that doesn’t have a cable from the interior switch it is electronic. I simply pulled my left hand (passenger) headlight and relocated the cable pull down to where the tow bolt goes, I don’t think I have a cable behind the fuse box.