irl270
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Hi folks,
I thought I'd drop by and post this here in the hope it helps someone else. My own search for answers brought me through these forums time and time again but I happened to find the answer on an obscure video elsewhere after hours of searching. Apologies in advance if this is in fact covered here already
Long story short... I made the mistake of disconnecting and removing my main battery from the boot only to discover I couldn't then open the boot with the "blade" key, couldn't drop the rear seats without access to the boot and I couldn't locate any of the "jump start" contacts shown on the manuals and forums such as this
There are well hidden jump start points / remote contacts / battery terminals which can be used for jump starting this car inside and beside the fuse box located at the top left or right corner of the engine bay. They contacts are not marked in any way and weren't the easiest to spot to an untrained eye. Pop off the fuse box lid and the positive is at the front inside corner of the fuse box with a heavy red cable terminating under it. The neutral or ground point is outside the fuse-box, beside the wheel strut mount and some lightweight brown / tan wires terminate here. In my case, I connected my main battery to these points which allowed me to open the boot and insert the battery again so it seems there doesn't need to be a battery connected in the boot to jump the car. I imagine you could turn or start the engine using these points too but I was happy to just get some power flowing and get the boot popped... and no errors or gremlins on starting the car thankfully. I've attached some photos (of my filthy car!) showing the points for anyone having trouble finding them
Just to add too... the common go-to for jump starting these cars seems to be under the front passenger footwell so I removed the plate but I couldn't find a heavy live anywhere - only what looked like a ground point for some heavy and lighter neutral cables (brown / tan in colour). Images and guides I've read elsewhere mentioned a heavy black or red cable terminating under the footwell which would become the positive terminal but I simply didn't have that cable and I wasn't keen on putting positive power onto the brown cables in case they were neutrals. Similarly, beside the air filter / aux battery in the engine bay is another location that gets mentioned frequently but there were no terminals of any description at, under or near the air filter / aux battery on this model
Hope this helps. If someone could tell me where to find a more specific model number for my car, I'll edit it into the post
I thought I'd drop by and post this here in the hope it helps someone else. My own search for answers brought me through these forums time and time again but I happened to find the answer on an obscure video elsewhere after hours of searching. Apologies in advance if this is in fact covered here already
Long story short... I made the mistake of disconnecting and removing my main battery from the boot only to discover I couldn't then open the boot with the "blade" key, couldn't drop the rear seats without access to the boot and I couldn't locate any of the "jump start" contacts shown on the manuals and forums such as this
There are well hidden jump start points / remote contacts / battery terminals which can be used for jump starting this car inside and beside the fuse box located at the top left or right corner of the engine bay. They contacts are not marked in any way and weren't the easiest to spot to an untrained eye. Pop off the fuse box lid and the positive is at the front inside corner of the fuse box with a heavy red cable terminating under it. The neutral or ground point is outside the fuse-box, beside the wheel strut mount and some lightweight brown / tan wires terminate here. In my case, I connected my main battery to these points which allowed me to open the boot and insert the battery again so it seems there doesn't need to be a battery connected in the boot to jump the car. I imagine you could turn or start the engine using these points too but I was happy to just get some power flowing and get the boot popped... and no errors or gremlins on starting the car thankfully. I've attached some photos (of my filthy car!) showing the points for anyone having trouble finding them
Just to add too... the common go-to for jump starting these cars seems to be under the front passenger footwell so I removed the plate but I couldn't find a heavy live anywhere - only what looked like a ground point for some heavy and lighter neutral cables (brown / tan in colour). Images and guides I've read elsewhere mentioned a heavy black or red cable terminating under the footwell which would become the positive terminal but I simply didn't have that cable and I wasn't keen on putting positive power onto the brown cables in case they were neutrals. Similarly, beside the air filter / aux battery in the engine bay is another location that gets mentioned frequently but there were no terminals of any description at, under or near the air filter / aux battery on this model
Hope this helps. If someone could tell me where to find a more specific model number for my car, I'll edit it into the post
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