Need to charge battery, cant get in to my car!

[ludde44]

Hey!

My car battery i discharged, and to charge it I need to open the hood to my xm. The keys don't work and the remote locking obviously doesn't work without electricity. Does anyone know how I can get my battery out without breaking a window or destroying locks etc?

/Ludde

[xmexclusive]

Hi Ludde

If you lay under the bumper of the car you can look up through a gap and see the front of the cooling fans. Make sure the car is safely supported before you do this as hydraulic citroens have a habit of dropping without warning.
Over the top of those fans you will see a thin rod running across the car at top of headlight level. That rod joins and operates the two bonnet release catches. Using a pair of long thin nosed pliars grip the rod and pull it sideways.
That should release the bonnet.
Charge or change the battery and the plip should work.

John

[Peter.N.]

If by chance you have a tow bar you can charge it via the permantly live supply pin and earth of the power socket.

Peter

[ludde44]

Hi!

Thanks a lot for the answer, worked out great!

[xmexclusive]

Hi Ludde

Pleased you got in with no damage.
Also pleased you asked the question because Peters reply was new information for me.

John

[Jan-hendrik]

There are 3 doors (that includes the hatch) giving access to the vehicle with a key. If none of the locks are working that is definitely uncool. I always use the plip with the master key attached and also always carry a spare key in my wallet, so I won't be locked out that easily. All my locks work with the keys. Hmm. A bit OT perhaps.
Anyway, if anything happens to your plip, drop it in a puddle, step on it, batteries suddenly dead, you are in real deep you-know-what

This post has been edited by Jan-hendrik on July 01, 2011 10:22 am

[Nixim]

And not to forget, exercise your locks regularly, since they have a habit to oxidise and become useless. Well you always can try to take them out and apart to clean them.. sometimes you manage.