danielmelbourne
New member
Hi all, I’m after some advice please, I have foolishly let the battery go flat on my 2001 C2 tip. Having searched for a solution to opening the front hatch and realising that Porsche had installed a solution for this very eventuality, I bought a new battery to replace the one installed and with some jump leads tried the official solution. Unfortunately no luck. Frustratingly I have an optimate 3 charger and a cigarette socket adaptor that I hadn’t been using! As I can’t open the bonnet with a Battery, will using the trickle charger now revive the battery enough to open the bonnet? One concern is with the charger plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, there appears to be constant solenoid activation noises from both doors. What is this? will they burn out? will they "fight” the trickle charge and drain the little juice the charger is trying to put in. Apologies for the long winded questions. Any help gratefully appreciated.