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996 flat battery woes
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danielmelbourne
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Sorry to hear about your continuing woes. I'm not sure if this helps but here's the PET for your car (996 Carrera 1998-2005?). Have a look at Illustration 803 in the Main Group 8: Body section which shows the emergency release cable. The problem is that this looks like the PET for a LHD car, in which case it may be on the opposite side for your RHD car - all very confusing!
https://www.porsche.com/all/media/pdf/originalparts/en/E_996T_KATALOG.pdf
Hope you get it sorted soon.
Jeff
danielmelbourne
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I had tried to find the pull cable in the passengers wheel well last night with no joy.
After a suggestion from an AA chap, the batter connection on the fuse board was tried again and even though the bonnet release switch didn't operate the button on the key fob did!
I have now replaced the dead Halfords Yuasa battery for a shiny Bosch S4.
Everything is now good apart from the drivers door window isn't operating, my fears about the constant relay sounds from the door when trying to trickle charge are being realised.
At least I can still drive it.
Thanks again all.
You may be right about the window but on my VW the windows reset after several operations, you may be lucky.
You may have various warnings displayed but they should reset once you drive a short distance at I believe over 15mph.
You can now get back to driving and feeling the passion for Porsche again.
Roger
thirteeneast
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I mean literally always.
danielmelbourne
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thirteeneast
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But I only got there by learning from my mistakes the hard way.
Off topic, a while back I replaced my17 year old Bosch S4 for an updated 85a Bosch S5 and it lasted 3 month's
You can check the date by the batch number on the side, mine was new but still fubared.
The sales guy told me they ain't what they used to be.
Yuasa however are some of the best batteries I've ever seen.
Another option under such circumstances is to fish out the emergency release cable for the engine compartment lid from behind the rear light cluster on the passenger side. If you get the lid open there are points in there you can attach jumper leads.
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