Opening Boxster s hood

[boxstermike]

My battery went dead on my 2001 boxster s. I have been trying to jump the pullout jumper point in the fuse box with no luck. All it is doing is clicking. I have a battery with 12.6 volts of power and I have negative from Battery to door post and the hot from the battery to the pullout hood contact poiunt and all it does is click. Any ideas??

[Boxtaboy]

That should have popped open your hood. If not, then go to an autoparts store and buy a battery maintainer that plugs into your cigarette lighter socket to charge the battery. After a couple of hours, you should have enough power to pop open the hood.

[boxstermike]

Do you have to pull that pull fuse all the way out? Maybe I am not getting good ground. What is the best grounding spot

[Boxtaboy]

Originally Posted by boxstermike

Do you have to pull that pull fuse all the way out? Maybe I am not getting good ground. What is the best grounding spot

I don't think you have to pull the fuse out. If I recall correctly, I saw someone use the door latch strike plate as the ground.

[boxstermike]

Originally Posted by Boxtaboy

I don't think you have to pull the fuse out. If I recall correctly, I saw someone use the door latch strike plate as the ground.

Maybe I did not have good enough ground to make good connection

[boxstermike]

Hood opening and charging. Thanks for the info guys

[Dave928]

so what did you do different?

[Kirk]

A friend of mine had the exact same problem with his 996 recently. The pull out jumper deal just would not work. I popped his hood using the hidden cable under the passenger side head light.

Kirk