dienamic410

i have a 2006 audi A8 L, and the battery is dead and the trunk wont open. is there any other jump terminals thats not in the trunk. or is there another way to get into the trunk. please help

Petahs

Can't you use the key to open it?

dienamic410

no. the keys doesn't work if the car battery is dead

dvs_dave

dienamic410

yea. i already tried it.multiple times

ltooz_a6_a8_q7

I've never had to try this, but it may work. Connect to a 12V charger to supply enough current to get the key out and the trunk opened.
Cheers and good luck,
Louis

dvs_dave

the green amigo

Positive jump terminal is located in front passenger footwell kick panel, remove trim, pull back carpet and lift black plastic cover . Attach positive terminal and use a body point as the ground(neg) terminal. Pictures below.

the green amigo

jlbell

This is a good method, however if the cigarette lighter socket charging method doesn't work, my best suggestion is the following, which I learned from locking my keys in my trunk and having my spare 8+ hours driving distance away. Get a police unit to use their "airbag" method for wedging the door and pulling the door handle, if this doesn't work resort to simply breaking a window (I expressed this to the officer, and he said if we can't successfully open the door with the above said method, that I am free to do whatever I want, as I proved it was my car). Thankfully we got the door open with the "airbag" method. Once you have gained access to the compartment, you may try the trunk release button (unsuccessfully I may admit, damn Audi engineers being too throughout and thinking about possible theft after breaking a window). However in this moment of anger I realized that the trunk is linked to the compartment via a ski pass, and the trunk possess a "kidnap" release switch. Just a quick background, I previously have owned a 2001 740iL which had a ski pass and zipper present on said ski pass for whatever reasons (gives you access to the extended trunk, and subsequent trunk), I hoped this zipper was just a standard Germany oddity; to my dismay the D3s ski pass does not possess said zipper. At this point I was quite livid, so I looked at the officer and asked: "do you have a knife". He hesitantly said yes and handed me said knife. I then proceeded, with much shock to the officer, to completely cut the perimeter of the ski bag. This gave us enough access to use his "door pulling" rod to trigger the emergency "kidnapping" trunk release. The positive aspect of this experience is that I was able to get to my trunk and subsequently my keys without breaking a window, while sacrificing the ski pass bag, while also giving passing students a good laugh (one student stopped and stated: "you never see this", to the officers and my confusion he them replied: "a police officer breaking into a car", not going to lie, I slightly laughed). The only negative aspect of the experience is that upon opening the trunk I soon released that the keys were in reaching distance, if I would have simply made a small slit into the top of the ski bag . However, I must add that the location was being obscured by a 40 + lb, 5 foot long, 2 foot wide, research platform that was to go into the Gulf of Mexico just a few days following. From here on out, I expect to be called the D3 MacGyver.