First real issue - rear boot lid won’t open

[kempez]

So Christmas Day. Car all charged up for several trips around mine and my wife’s folks.

Went to pack the car and boot doesn’t open. Many tries, many different ways. The boot also isn’t flush with the rear body work. Nothing caught in the latch that I can see inside

Ugh.

I’ve tried some searching but cannot find a way to emergency release the boot (which I would have thought is a pretty basic and necessary function!).

Any ideas? Or do I just follow through with my requested Porsche appointment?

I use the boot a lot, so it’s pretty essential to the functioning of the car, IMO!

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[PNWTaycan4S]

Maybe drop the back seats and reach in to hit the emergency release button?

"Trunk Entrapment: Your vehicle is equipped with an internal trunk release mechanism. A person trapped in the luggage compartment can release the lid from the inside using the unlocking button. The unlocking button is equipped with a light indicator. The light indicator keeps flashing for 60 minutes after locking of the luggage compartment lid."

 

[kempez]

Maybe drop the back seats and reach in to hit the emergency release button?

"Trunk Entrapment: Your vehicle is equipped with an internal trunk release mechanism. A person trapped in the luggage compartment can release the lid from the inside using the unlocking button. The unlocking button is equipped with a light indicator. The light indicator keeps flashing for 60 minutes after locking of the luggage compartment lid."

I’ve seen this post, but no idea where this would be. Is it a US-market specific thing because I’ve looked around and cannot see it ??

 

[PNWTaycan4S]

In the U.S. the emergency release is in a corner of the inside of the trunk lid. A hard to see recessed green button, towards the front of the car, on the U.S. passenger's side (UK driver's side?)

Good luck!

 

[kempez]

In the U.S. the emergency release is in a corner of the inside of the trunk lid. A hard to see recessed green button, towards the front of the car, on the U.S. passenger's side (UK driver's side?)

Good luck!

Hard to see in as much as I’m not sure it’s there.

This is a Sports Turismo btw

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Not good news if it's this...
https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/trunk-wont-open-im-on-a-role-today.15410/

 

[kempez]

Not good news if it's this...
https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/threads/trunk-wont-open-im-on-a-role-today.15410/

Yeah that’s the thread I found initially. Should be fun to find out ?

 

[DavidS78]

This has happened to me three times as my thread above suggests.
There is a known to Porsche issue where water does enter the boot lid and lodges within due to the presence of some manufacturing grommets. Their is a bulletin directing dealerships on how to resolve this issue. This was thought to be the root cause of my issue on the first two occasions.

When the issue occurred a third time the dealership dug deeper and found a leak through the rear window seal (The window sits on top of a closed frame.)

F1eng also appears to have issues with water in the rear tailgate:https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...eir-ct-tailgate-as-it-opens-and-closes.16869/

 

[BigBob]

Surely you don’t deserve to have a Porsche, or any car I guess, if you’re dumb enough to trap yourself in the boot (trunk) of a car! Or isn’t because you guys in the US are always getting bonked on the head and put in trunks, like in the tv shows?

good luck getting it open.

 

[JuTheKi]

This has happened to me three times as my thread above suggests.
There is a known to Porsche issue where water does enter the boot lid and lodges within due to the presence of some manufacturing grommets. Their is a bulletin directing dealerships on how to resolve this issue. This was thought to be the root cause of my issue on the first two occasions.

When the issue occurred a third time the dealership dug deeper and found a leak through the rear window seal (The window sits on top of a closed frame.)

F1eng also appears to have issues with water in the rear tailgate:https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...eir-ct-tailgate-as-it-opens-and-closes.16869/

I had this twice and the root reason was the same. Now fixed at Porsche Center and ok.

 

[slothinker]

Surely you don’t deserve to have a Porsche, or any car I guess, if you’re dumb enough to trap yourself in the boot (trunk) of a car! Or isn’t because you guys in the US are always getting bonked on the head and put in trunks, like in the tv shows?

good luck getting it open.

One of my all-time-favorite newspaper headlines (for real) was:

"Woman in trunk still missing."

 

[kempez]

Porsche Reading offering me an appointment end January, with no replacement car. Or one in March (!!), with a car. Ridiculous!

 

[kempez]

Very weirdly this thread was quite hard to find. Search scope tweaked?

The car went into Porsche and they replaced the rear boot lock that had failed (no s***). No water ingress was found. Nothing much else.

Asked how did they did: I explained whilst it was nothing against the staff, the timeliness of the repair/booking was very poor. They'd also put my car on charge but not put it into Direct Charging mode ?‍ so I was going to drive away, but instead stuck it on the fast charger and grabbed a McDonalds.

Ah well, at least I now have a boot

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