DIY: Open trunk with dead battery
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DIY: Open trunk with dead battery
Dead battery? Can't open the trunk with the metal key?
Open the hood, take off the plastic cover which holds the ECU and the fuse bar. There's a clip that holds the fuse bar in place push that aside and pull the fuse bar up. There should be a big thick red wire that attaches it self to the fuse bar that runs directly to the battery and other accessories as you can see in the picture. Disconnect it from the fuse bar and attach your positive jump lead there and attach ground lead on the body at a main ground. Use your key or use the door latch button on the door. Volah! Trunk opens.
Open the hood, take off the plastic cover which holds the ECU and the fuse bar. There's a clip that holds the fuse bar in place push that aside and pull the fuse bar up. There should be a big thick red wire that attaches it self to the fuse bar that runs directly to the battery and other accessories as you can see in the picture. Disconnect it from the fuse bar and attach your positive jump lead there and attach ground lead on the body at a main ground. Use your key or use the door latch button on the door. Volah! Trunk opens.
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That is good to know. I had this happen to me but used the battery cable jumper leads under the passenger foot well. Pull carpet back, remove floor plate hook up jumpers, as I recall.
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Had to use this also. Took me quite some tine to figure out that the contact is on the passenger side not the driver's. I have since started carrying a jumper pack. I've been wondering if I hook the jumper pack 12v cigarette adapter output to the cl65 lighter if that would energize the trunk?
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Although supposedly I have the correct metal key, the first time I encountered this issue that the key could not turn, I inserted the WD40's plastic nozzle into the key hole, sprayed a good amount, waited a while and bingo! Now, since the key mechanism faces down, the lubrication falls out the key hole, I spray it every two or three months even if the key works.
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I know this is an old thread but I'm having this issue now. Battery dead, I had the trunk open with the key but it closed itself and won't reopen. I've got 2 fuse blocks under the hood, one on left and on on right. I can't get either block to come out and I don't want to force anything, I'm worried I won't get it back in. Can I get power to trunk opener through the cigarette lighter socket? Don't know why Mercedes didn't put a Positive terminal under the hood with an easier access.
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