Battery Dead, Bonnet & doors wont open!! Emergency

[ollie_kerslake]

Hi,

My Battery is well and truely dead, I cannot open the doors using the key fob and using the key in the passenger door doesnt work, it just keeps spiinging round without unlocking the car.

I need to get in the bonnet so I can recharge the battery, please help.

Cheers

 

[The Boosh!]

Smash the window...

Ring the RAC

 

[ollie_kerslake]

what will the rac do? smash the window?

 

[The Boosh!]

what will the rac do? smash the window?

Aye think so mate.... You effectively need to break into your own car. The rac Smash the glass properly though. when they did mine it didn't go all over the place (in the car etc)....


Unless you can get up under the car and open the bonnet that way?

 

[ollie_kerslake]

i only have two zxle stands, why would the passenger side lock not work?

 

[Beef-Mc]

No chance of getting up to the bonnet latch on a 2.0

Next best thing to do would be to smash the upper grill and open it that way.

 

[ollie_kerslake]

i dont wanna smash anything! isw there no other way bar me smashing something

 

[ollie_kerslake]

would they be able to break in via the broken passenger side doot lock that just keeps spinning round! sodding shoody renault!

 

[Tom@JMS]

matey, there was a guy on here who's bonnet latch stopped working on a 182 and he found a way of opening it without breaking/cutting/smashing anything - search for it and hopefully that will help.... I think he wrote a guide...?

 

[Josh@Renparts]

if your handy, you might be able to remove the front undertray and arch liner and get a feed from another battery onto your battery. other than that smashy smashy

 

[Sam]

if your handy, you might be able to remove the front undertray and arch liner and get a feed from another battery onto your battery. other than that smashy smashy

we did this on my mates excort. was a bit fidgity but in the end we got the liner out and got the jump leads on.

its werth a try..

 

[mark123]

You don't need to smash anything to get the bonnet open even on the 172/182. You need to remove the bumper. The grill unclips from it and stays on the car. Once the bumper is off you can lift the grill up and see the bonnet catch. You need to stick a long screw driver in there and hit it with a hammer. I'll dig out my post of how I did it. The bumper is held on with a single nut under each wheel arch.

It is impossible to open it from inside the engine bay - tamper proof and no access on a 1*2.

Alternately you could possibly get power leads on. Earth is easy obviously - anywhere with bare metal. Probably the best place to get the positive on from underneath is the starter motor feed, on most cars that is always live (I know this from dropping spanners on it - spark) and it is the solenoid that actually connects it to the motor. That would be easier - probably although I can't picture where the starter motor is on a 1*2 even though I've done loads of work on them - so access could be crap. But, lol isn't it always!

 

[mark123]

On my Dad's car when this happened the RAC man had an inflatable bag thing. He managed to slide it down the door seal and inflate it so it pushed the top of the door away from the car enough for them to get a stick in to open the door.

 

[mark123]

Make sure you read to the end. Here is how I did it (open the bonnet without breaking anyhing - well actually I did but I didn't need to!).

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=186668

 

[jesus]

On my Dad's car when this happened the RAC man had an inflatable bag thing. He managed to slide it down the door seal and inflate it so it pushed the top of the door away from the car enough for them to get a stick in to open the door.

pretty damn clever that!

 

[Da]

Jack the front of the car up, get it on stands and then get a +ve feed from another battery onto the starter motor. This is linked directly to the battery of your car and should provide enough power to open the doors.
Make sure you also connect the -ve of the second battery to your chassis somewhere.

 

[mark123]

If you end up going the bonnet route here's some pics:

Bumper off grill not broken ;-)

View attachment 30537

Closer view of where to stick the screwdriver - you need to go in through the small gap. With a torch you can see in there. You need to hit the little thing that looks like a knife away from the stud that hold the bonnet down.

View attachment 30536

 

[lemonnobby]

you have no chance of getting to the starter positive terminal.

 

[Jay Payne]

On my Dad's car when this happened the RAC man had an inflatable bag thing. He managed to slide it down the door seal and inflate it so it pushed the top of the door away from the car enough for them to get a stick in to open the door.

This is correct, Rac will not smash a window unless absolutley nessisary.

getting into this clio is easy

 

[Da]

you have no chance of getting to the starter positive terminal.

True, the 182 bay is fairly cramped. Now a 1.2...

 

[182-racing-blue]

havent read the whole thread but have you changed the battery in the remote????

 

[lemonnobby]

Have you tried some lube in the lock and working it about.

 

[182-racing-blue]

havent read the whole thread but have you changed the battery in the remote????

How do you know your car battery is dead?

 

[MrMark]

good point ^

 

[ollie_kerslake]

All sorted last night, We phoned the rac. He jacked up the car and managed to feed some jucie through the starter motor cable. Just enough to open the door to open the bonnet.

Went and got a new battery this morning as its happened twice now so emergency over. Thanks Mr RAC.