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You need to hook a battery pack or spare battery via jump leads up to a decent live and an earth just to push in enough power to the car to get the remote to work. If you're in the AA they should be able to sort it and either sell you a new battery or leave you with an open car for you to buy and fit one.
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Anyone on here good at getting into cars? Not a leading question or an attempt to get you to incriminate yourselves...
I have an old Jeep Cherokee/Liberty, which has been sitting outside of my house unused for 6 weeks or so, while I recuperate from a mad driver trying to kill me when out on my motorbike. In that time, the battery has drained itself, so I thought I would take it out and pop it on charge (something I now realise I should've done a little while ago). Of course the doors won't open off the key fob and when I put the key in the driver's door lock (the only one that can be opened wth a key), there's a very unsatisfying clunk of nothing happening.
Short version, I can't get in to pop the bonnet to take the battery out to charge it. When I finally do get it off, I know it's going to be a nightmare, because it's an AGM battery, which are notorious bastards to bring back from the dead. That, however, is a problem I would like to have.
Can anyone offer a solution short of calling the AA and getting it taken in to a garage? Even if I did that, I would have no way of driving it back for now, as my foot is in plaster, so getting in while it's outside my house is my preference.
Thanks for listening...