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There are jumper lugs under the hood ... which opens mechanically (for now
I've had two Boxsters with dead batteries recently. Unfortunately in their infinite wisdom, all of the newer Porsche cars starting with the later 986/996 models have an electronic trunk release. So when your battery is dead, you can't pop the trunk to replace it. Brilliant! Fortunately they have a jumper in the fuse box in the driver's side footwell, but I've had a battery so dead that it wouldn't take a charge. In which case you have to pull the driver's side wheel, pull the fender liner, and find the emergency trunk release cable.

I guess that's what we call progress?
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