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Starting a 00 CLK that will not turn over

  • 04-11-2008 10:58am
    #1
    Guvnor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭


    This is a good one -

    MB in their wisdom stuck the battery in the boot and boot only opens via a switch in the car which needs some help from the battery!:D

    I know the key should work in the boot but check online and you can see that people have tried in vain for hours and no success as have I.

    I am thinking as it is my mother's motor to call the AA, explain to them the situation and basically get a home start for a few quid and then keep her running and take her to be serviced - the car not my mother!:D

    Any opinions - car is stranded in my garage in Dundalk - if any one knows somebody local who might be able to help it'd be a bonus.

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    Do the back seats fold back allowing access to the boot? Not sure how much help that would be seeing as u still might not be able to open it from the inside, perhaps u could connect jump leads or power pack while inside the boot.


  • #3
    robbie99
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    Can you open the bonnet?

    I'm not sure about MBs but BMWs also have the battery in the boot. In the engine compartment where the battery would be there's a sort of rod with a red cap covering it - this is a positive terminal. Any exposed part of the chassis can be used as the negative terminal in order to jump start.


  • #4
    galwaytt
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    robbie99 wrote: »
    Can you open the bonnet?

    I'm not sure about MBs but BMWs also have the battery in the boot. In the engine compartment where the battery would be there's a sort of rod with a red cap covering it - this is a positive terminal. Any exposed part of the chassis can be used as the negative terminal in order to jump start.

    My 02 W210 had a jump start connector, as you describe, on l.h. inner wing. I'd be surprised of the OP's car is any different.

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  • #5
    cormac_byrne
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    other options

    Car Jump Start Plug Directly Into 12v Cigarette Lighter
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170275352643

    Jump Start Cigarette Lighter To Cigarette Lighter Leads
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330281501434

    Halfords probably have similar

    N.B. these devices won't jumpstart you, rather they slowly charge your battery to a point where it will hopefully start (or at least release the boot)


  • #6
    unkel
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    robbie99 wrote: »
    Can you open the bonnet?

    I'm not sure about MBs but BMWs also have the battery in the boot. In the engine compartment where the battery would be there's a sort of rod with a red cap covering it - this is a positive terminal. Any exposed part of the chassis can be used as the negative terminal in order to jump start.

    +1

    There should be a positive terminal under the bonnet. There's no need to get access directly to the battery, unless of course it needs to be replaced.

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  • #7
    Guvnor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭Guvnor


    Tipsy Mac wrote: »
    Do the back seats fold back allowing access to the boot? Not sure how much help that would be seeing as u still might not be able to open it from the inside, perhaps u could connect jump leads or power pack while inside the boot.

    The back seats do fold down but the mechanism for doing so is located in the boot!:D


  • #8
    Guvnor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭Guvnor


    robbie99 wrote: »
    Can you open the bonnet?

    I'm not sure about MBs but BMWs also have the battery in the boot. In the engine compartment where the battery would be there's a sort of rod with a red cap covering it - this is a positive terminal. Any exposed part of the chassis can be used as the negative terminal in order to jump start.

    This is there all right - black square +'ve terminal. Now I read that you should not jump start from this item due to risk of frying the cars electrics. I think this could be used to give enough juice to open the boot but best to leave it at that!?


  • #9
    Guvnor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭Guvnor


    cormac_byrne wrote: »
    other options

    Car Jump Start Plug Directly Into 12v Cigarette Lighter
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170275352643

    Jump Start Cigarette Lighter To Cigarette Lighter Leads
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330281501434

    Halfords probably have similar

    N.B. these devices won't jumpstart you, rather they slowly charge your battery to a point where it will hopefully start (or at least release the boot)

    Cheers mate, they look dead handy and could well work. Will see if Halfords have anything similar.


  • #10
    Guvnor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭Guvnor


    Good news is I got it going again - other good news is I did not get the boot open!

    Apparently and I should heed the advice from here - is that one should never start the car from the battery in the boot - bad idea and that the terminal is there for a reason in the engine bay.

    Anyway the old battery was knackered not holding a charge so new one installed at a cost of €90.00 and bad news is that the air conditioning runs on now even when car is turned off. I fear it needs a new regulator valve or similar which is not overly cheap.

    I am giving it a few runs to see if it sorts itself out and if not then it'll have to be changed.


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