EMERGENCY! Boot lock broken on R32.

[Bleach1]

Hi, Just had an annoying problem with an R32 boot lock. The barrel in the boot lock seems to have broken on my r32 this afternoon and i had the lever for the remote opening flicked down. So i cant pop the boot from the lever and now i cant open it with the key. I need to get some things out of the boot so its a real pain. I really need to somehow change the switch on the boot lock so i can pop it from the cabin.

Any ideas anyone?

[Jax]

Seeing that the same lever opens the fuel filler cover, can you get at the cable thru or near that cover, or from inside the rear mudguard? [need to remove the plastic inner guard thingo]

[Bleach1]

Seeing that the same lever opens the fuel filler cover, can you get at the cable thru or near that cover, or from inside the rear mudguard? [need to remove the plastic inner guard thingo]

There is no point using the cable as the latch on the boot lock to turn off the remote locking is flicked to the cable is disabled.

[MANWHORE]

Note to self: never flick that switch or get boot lock shaved because it looks cool.

sorry, I'm not mucking around though. ther eis a way. If you take the back seat off, there is this big metal panel underneath the seat. this has about 8 bolts on it. take this off, and you have access to the boot. the whole may be big enough for a small kid to crawl into to flick the switch (if you have a kid), or you can do what I had to do and use a metal rod or a stick to flick it.

[Bleach1]

yeah, that was what i was thinking, take the back rest of the seat off.

[Hawker180]

Yep, your only bet is to take the seat!

[Bleach1]

can someone give me a quick run down on removing the back seat?

[Morgs]

Same thing happened to mine

Rear seat comes out with the bottom section first (I think, was a while ago) there are two clip sort of things on the floor which you need to undo. Then you do the same for the top section and pull it up. Have a feel around you'll find them.

Then its smooth sailing, unless you have a rear strut brace like me...

[Duncan]

what he said

And to get the remote cable to work again, once it is open there is a small lever in the lock itself that disables or enables the release in the car