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Markyboy
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...