BERGS2 Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 Guys - hopeing someone can help out here. Left the car in the garage for a few nights and had accidentally left the key in the ignition. roof is down and is unlocked, so i can get in to access - I have before had it where the battery is flat, and you have to trickle it from the footwell fuse point to the get the bonnet openb etc etc. HOWEVER - this time, with the key in the ignition - it doesn't appear to want to trickle charge off my charge pack i just have the airbag light on the dash - nother else.... Any ideas? lovely siunny day to have the car stick in the garage! :-( cheesr guys, BERGS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveEFI Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 When you say charge pack, do you mean a battery charger? Most won't connect to a totally flat battery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul P Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 The emergency opening system (fuse box pull out connector and door jam isn’t a charging circuit as such. It just livens up the bonnet release circuit. so connect up a battery for preferable to the pull out and the door latch and operate the frunk release button on the key fob. (You can try the door cill button as well ). key can be removed by using the little metal hook / rod in the lid of the fuse box. There’s a little flap at about 1 o’clock on the ignition barrel. Open it with the hook and poke the rod end in the hole. some start packs won’t open the frunk because they don’t wake up their heavy current delivery until they see a big request (like starting the engine) so you may need to get a battery to do the emergency frunk open. good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERGS2 Posted April 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 41 minutes ago, DaveEFI said: When you say charge pack, do you mean a battery charger? Most won't connect to a totally flat battery. Yeah - a trickle charger. so, i need a 12v source battery? might try to rig up some extended jump leads... (though not to jump through the footwell, obvs, 😬) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul P Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 Car won’t jump from the footwell emergency connection . You can just get the bonnet open. Then jump or charge direct to battery. Doing the from a battery rather than charge pack or trickle chargers get more consistent results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iborguk Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 Emergency key release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bally4563 Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 55 minutes ago, iborguk said: Emergency key release Well didn’t know that... every day is a school day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iborguk Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, bally4563 said: Well didn’t know that... every day is a school day! Only found out myself recently 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERGS2 Posted April 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 2 hours ago, bally4563 said: Well didn’t know that... every day is a school day! +1 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyanglia Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 I did exactly the same thing a few weeks and it's so annoying and totally preventable. I got Mrs Greyanglia's Audi Alllroad as close as I could and followed the instructions from the manual and a decent set of jump leads. Much to my surprise the the frunk clicked to unlock and I slapped the CTEK on overnight and job done. Hope you managed to sort it a out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDonald Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 I try to leave the bonnet on the latch when I put the car in the garage, though I sometimes forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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