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Number one stepdaughter called this morning, her car won’t start. Dead battery. I remind her of the jumper cables in her trunk, and the detailed instructions I copied for her in case she ever needed them. She tells me she can’t get in her trunk, the battery is dead. After taking a deep breath to calm myself, I inform her long before cars had keyless entry, and key fobs, we had to use the labor intensive, exhausting act of INSERTING THE KEY INTO THE TRUNK LOCK!!! In an equally eye rolling moment on her part, she informs me there IS NO trunk lock!!! In GMs infinite wisdom, did the fail to anticipate the need to get into the trunk if the battery is dead? I know her car (09 Malibu) has a drop down backseat and an emergency pull handle, but that does no good if the trunk in loaded (her trunk is full of luggage due to coming home for spring break). And it’s not just a Malibu thing, number 2 stepdaughter has a 05 Grand Prix, same thing!!! When did car companies get so cheap??? I knew they eliminated the passenger door lock years ago, I guess I never notice the lack of trunk locks.
Desperate times call for desperate measures: pull the luggage through enough to reach the release. It's not like she has to pull the whole back seat out and squeeze between the cross bars.
i dont know why they cant put some auxiliary studs under the hood to get a jump, it would make life much easier. We had a mercedes at work with a similar setup but it did have a bypass key to get in the trunk but ,it didnt work .we figured out there was a battery junction wire under the carpet on the passenger side floorboard that you could put power to and pop the trunk what a bunch of horseshit just to jump a car.Back in the day we would just ram the two bumpers together as a ground and use one heavy piece of wire for the positive side to jump start car.Good luck Matt.
Not a solution, but...
I have four sets of jumper cables, all in trunks, except the 1990 Sierra. I haven't touched any of them since I bought a booster pack. I keep it on the rear floor of my DD, and try to remember to take it with me if I take out another ride. So convenient!
2004 was about the last year of a key hole for a trunk! Agreed, pull the release for fold down seats and either grab the cables or hit the emergency release on the deck lid.
yeah,well heres a good one for ya.i have a 2012 vw beetle,now if you are familiar with vw's they have a really cool feature,say you have your car parked in the driveway with the windows down and sunroof open and it starts to rain.well you just stick the key in the drivers door lock and turn to the right and hold and it will roll the windows up and shut the sunroof,hold key to the left and it will roll all windows down,works good on hot days the vent the car quick.anyway on my 2012 it has no key hole.BUT it actually does it is under a little cover,i popped the cover off and sure enough windows up and windows down.so just how many owners actually know about it,so basically the factory is robbing people of this feature by covering the key hole.
Desperate times call for desperate measures: pull the luggage through enough to reach the release. It's not like she has to pull the whole back seat out and squeeze between the cross bars.
Ha!! Clearly you have never traveled with teenage girls!! The trunk was crammed full of crap. In addition to her normal clothes and stuff, the trunk was also full of stuff for her marching band/drum core stuff. No way was she moving that crap to get to the pull handle.
I can go on a week long trip with a duffle bag. Traveling v with my wife and stepdaughters takes more planning and equipment than was required for the Normandy Invasion.
One word...Halo. I've got one of these in all my cars. I even bought them for the kids to put in theirs. They will jump your car, charge anything with a USB, has an ac plug. Heck, there's even a flashlight. Great for putting your mind at rest when the kids are out and about.
The wife's car is a 2004 TBird and it had a dead battery, couldn't pop the trunk to access the battery and thought"great design" and after an online search found out behind the driver seat is a pull release for the trunk. Apparently Ford thought about that possibility.
