Trunk

[Joono]

Alright, this car has a lot of issues. :shock:

So, the previous owner shaved the trunk, and their apparent method for opening the tomb was by touching this red wire into the fuse box. It'd spark, and the trunk would pop open. Sadly, this has not worked for me...How would I go about solving this dilemma?

He appears to have put a little extender port at the bottom of the fuse box. I have no idea what's going on here...Gonna buy a camera today, maybe that'll help.

 

[Blake442]

He was jumping the fuse for the power trunk release. There should be a button on the glove box to control it if it was factory equiped, otherwise they may have just added it, hence the jerry-rigged method of opening it.

If you can't get it open with the popper, you're going to have to remove the rear seat, and get some really long extentions for your socket so you can unbolt the trunk latch and let the lid open.

This is why Blake doesn't like shaved anything. I don't trust anything electronic like those poppers for doors and such. I've had to dick around with too many that had either failed or didn't work properly.
I'll stick with the good old handles.

 

[Joono]

As do I; sadly, not too much I can do about it at the moment. 😢

 

[pontiacgp]

He was jumping the fuse for the power trunk release. There should be a button on the glove box to control it if it was factory equiped, otherwise they may have just added it, hence the jerry-rigged method of opening it.

If you can't get it open with the popper, you're going to have to remove the rear seat, and get some really long extentions for your socket so you can unbolt the trunk latch and let the lid open.

This is why Blake doesn't like shaved anything. I don't trust anything electronic like those poppers for doors and such. I've had to dick around with too many that had either failed or didn't work properly.
I'll stick with the good old handles.

I'm going to remove my lock from the trunk lid but first I'm installing a cable that'll be under the back seat to release the truck lock in case the power trunk lock fails...

 

[TBRtat2]

How cold is it in your area?

I shaved the door handles on my VW, and had a problem with the door poppers in really cold weather (about 30* and lower)
Something you could try is to use more power then normal.
The easyist way woulb be take a second battery and a set of jumper cables (or a long peace of wire) , Set the second battery in the car by the pedals, hook a cable to the positive side of your main battery, run it to the second battery and hook it on the negitive, touch the wire for the trunk to the second battery's positive.
this will send 24volts to the trunk popper but nothing else, so you will not fry the whole car's electrical system.
This may pop the trunk, but it may fry the popper completly, but if its not working anyway, what do you have to loose.

 

[pontiacgp]

shaving door handles is illegal in most areas.......

 

[TBRtat2]

must not be around here, i had been pulled over in it, never got anything about it, I had one cop talked to me for a good 15-20 minutes asking me about the car.

But i would have to say to anyone thinking about doing it, check your local laws.

 

[Joono]

Alright...Guess I'm crawling about in my car's *ss.

 

[foxtrot]

Quote:
This is why Blake doesn't like shaved anything.

Hehehehehe.

 

[Blake442]

Oh snap! :lol:

Can I take that back???