Help needed - stupid and potentially expensive issue

[strickers666]

Hi all,

on the second day of owning my (used) Taycan Turbo I went to Waitrose and after obviously put the shopping in the boot. Upon getting home the boot would not open, it tried to open there was a beep and nothing happened. after several attempts with all the ways of opening it i pulled down the back seats and took everything out to find one unused shopping bag has its handle jammed in the latch. Its a cotton or canvas bag for life type of thing and it will not budge. I've tried pulling in both directions whilst operating the lock but nothing, am now considering trying to dissolve the bag..... any suggestions please? i don't thing there is any kind of manual unlock option, I'm booked into my local dealership at the end of the month but they've already suggested its many hours of labour to disassemble from the inside. This could turn out to be the most expensive carrier bag ever.

Such as stupidly annoying issue to have......

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[tchavei]

Personally I would try to "unjam" it in any possible way. I mean, it was jammed while gracefully closing the trunk so it must come out somehow.

I suspect the locking mechanism isn't really unlocking the trunk or there's no way of that bag holding the trunk weld together. Maybe try opposite force? i.e press the trunk down while tapping unlock hoping whatever tension the spring is getting gets lowered enough for it to really "unlock"

Good luck.

 

[f1eng]

I would get as close to the latch as possible from inside then carefully cut the handle of the bag on one side of the latch and try to pull it out from the other side.
OTOH I haven’t looked how close you can get…

 

[strickers666]

Personally I would try to "unjam" it in any possible way. I mean, it was jammed while gracefully closing the trunk so it must come out somehow.

I suspect the locking mechanism isn't really unlocking the trunk or there's no way of that bag holding the trunk weld together. Maybe try opposite force? i.e press the trunk down while tapping unlock hoping whatever tension the spring is getting gets lowered enough for it to really "unlock"

Good luck.

Thanks and I agree as I feel there's a £1.5-2k bill coming otherwise! I need 3 people one to push the button, one to push/pull the boot lid and one to pull/waggle the handle. Will round up volunteers.

 

[strickers666]

I would get as close to the latch as possible from inside then carefully cut the handle of the bag on one side of the latch and try to pull it out from the other side.
OTOH I haven’t looked how close you can get…

There's a lot of plastic in the way but yes will do that, also considering cutting the handle lengthways to see if it will rip and at least reduce the amount of fabric in there. Then its on to WD40, drain unblocker, basically anything that might weaken or thin it.

 

[f1eng]

drain unblocker,

I’d be scared that would damage more than just the bag!

 

[tchavei]

I wouldn't use solvents or anything like that since it would affect the plastics and God knows what else.

It's the locking latch that's under tension and not releasing. 95% sure

I remember long time ago it was mandatory to have some easy way of unlocking the trunk from the inside in case a person would get trapped in the trunk? Am I imagining this? If yes, there should be a way of unlocking it manually. I do remember both my MBs having a metal guide rod like bicycle brakes have and if you pulled on it, it would unlock the trunk regardless of the lock state

 

[strickers666]

Fixed !

After tearing the handle in half lengthways a portion was freed then a good soaking of WD40 and then finally a very agricultural push up from inside and pull up from under the lip from outside whilst pressing unlock it opened. Didn't sound great when it did release but appears to be working fine after a few tests.

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[SteveGTS]

Edit: just seen you fixed it

From the US manual, haven’t got my car yet so can’t confirm

 

[WuffvonTrips]

Edit: just seen you fixed it

From the US manual, haven’t got my car yet so can’t confirm

Presumably that requires power to be available- I've not come across any taycan-specific instructions of how to release the latch mechanically in case of the electronic mechanism failing, hopefully there's a trim panel that can be removed to grant access to the cable or directly to the latch.

 

[exav8tor]

I had an issue with mine where the boot/trunk stopped opening. Took it to dealer and it turned out to be a faulty wire. On querying with them about an emergency mechanical release, it turns out there isn’t one directly accessible. I believe they had to drill into the plastic covering the latch mechanism to open it.

 

[Throb]

Edit: just seen you fixed it

From the US manual, haven’t got my car yet so can’t confirm

This seems to be a U.S.-centric thing whereby cars have to have a way to open the boot from inside the car by law. I don't think such a regulation applies for European spec cars.

 

[tchavei]

This seems to be a U.S.-centric thing whereby cars have to have a way to open the boot from inside the car by law. I don't think such a regulation applies for European spec cars.

Yeah, we don't tend to stuck innocent people into trunks over here. At least not live ones...

 

[magnitude]

and then finally a very agricultural push up from inside

Using a tractor? Or just some burly farm hands?

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