Please Helpp! Dead Battery Need To Get Into Boot.

[stephi]

Please could someone help.

My X5 battery is completely dead, tried jump starting but nothing, theres a huge LPG tank in my boot which makes changing the battery a pain in the !Removed!. Problem is I shut the boot lid and cannot get it back open. Is there a manual way to open the boot without the key? I have child locks on the back door also so I can't even open them. I somehow need to get the boot open because its the only way I can get to the battery to replace it. Climbing over the back seats to try and get to the LPG tank up on its side is another option but I really don't know how we will manage to do that because its so heavy, rather try and open the boot manually if its possible.. pleaseee help!

Just found a manual release in the handbook but the handle that your supposed to pull has been ripped out and is not there :/

[Greydog]

Can you Jump/charge the battery using the under bonnet charging point enough to allow the locks to operate?

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

As Dave suggests, open the bonnet and locate the "Fat" positive under the bonnet, bob a 12v to it (and an Earth to the block) and off you go ;)

(Usually under a plastic cap on the manifold)

[boris]

yes the passenger wing has a large bolt on it, use that to connect the negative cable and the big red positive cap on the bulk head at back of engine bay on same side needs to have the positive lead placed on it then jump start the car or just use the other cars current to open the boot then crack on! be carefull moving the lpg tank though as im sure your ment to get a specialist to move them due to the pressurised gas inside. id do some homework on that before moving the tank as last thing you want is a fair few litres of compressed liquid gas spraying you in the face! its ice cold

[einahpets]

Thanks for replys we tried charging battery from bonnet hook ups but it didnt work for some reason, in the end we crawled through to the boot lifted the lpg tank and placed the new battery under, was harder than child birth! I stressed out and gave in and the local garage came to take it away, they managed to get the back door open and had the equiptment needed, they forgot to hook up the radio cable though :(

[Greydog]

Hope all is well with the X now you have the new battery? Plus I hope they lifted the tank and reconnected your radio for free ( Don't understand why they disconnected it in the first place)

[einahpets]

All was well with the X5 after they replaced the battery but now 5 months on and the cars failing to start again (seems not to start everytime it comes back from the garage).

They wouldn't reconnect the radio as they said it was too dangerous lifting the LPG tank again.