We were changing out the wheel on a 2008 Porsche Cayman a couple weeks ago (a very easy thing to do)

The owner of the car came up with the brilliant idea to close the frunk. With the battery disconnected we were unable to open the frunk. After reading the manual and a bunch of the forums it looked like he only way to open it was to jack the car up, take off the driver's side front fender liner, and pull on some cable in there. The problem was that we didn't have the key to the wheel lock...it was in the frunk!!!

There is also a way to jump the fuse box with a battery to open it, but everything we had read said that this was only if the battery was dead and still connected. We bought some long wires and allegator clips and tried it anyways, and...it worked!!!

We thought this dead Cayman was going to be a perminant fixture in our driveway.

Here is a few pics of the proceedure. We didn't feel like taking the battery out of my Audi so we bought some extra long wire and did it with the battery in the car.

Enjoy the pics!




Here we are happy to have this experiance behind us:

 

Wow, that is an amazing pain in the a$$! I'm sure this is a great heads up for many Cayman owners out there.

 

Should help 997 owners as well.

 

Had the same problem with my mom's 996.... luckily the tow-driver knew exactly what to do.

 

yeah popping the frunk in a 996 with a dead battery is an absolute chore...

 

You still should've been able to pop it by clamping the pos on the pull out fuse, grounding it, and then hitting the frunk button on the key, I'd think

 

Isn't that what he did?

 

Oops read too fast. I saw the fender removal and started typing

 

Many cars are like this nowadays. Dumbassery at its best ...

 

Ahahahaha that's one of the funniest things I've ever heard! Despite the brilliant German engineering, you'd think Porsche could've come up with a simpler solution.

Nice Flying Lizard jacket, btw.