disconnected battery now problems

[Dave DND]

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OK, now try turing the key in the boot to make sure it is not deadlocked and repeat the above procedure. .....

The boot locks don't actually deadlock, but you can select whether you want it to lock with the central locking or not. The lock can be horizontal or vertical, can't remember now which is which & I'm at work so can't look in the handbook 

Thats kind of where I was hoping to go with this

[raywilb]

did the manual lock - unlock & now halfway there. door now opens, but no success regards the boot. the wife has remarked that its stuck a few times lately. Is there a way of opening it via crawling into the boot. my theory is the mechanism is kaput

[rustym95]

the boot lock on mine when it got stuck was cos it had never been used with the key and you know the extra bit you need to turn was were the lock was getting stuck, so locked and unlocked a few time's with some wd40 until it worked proper now putsome wd40 in all locks and give them a try ev-now and then to make sure tey work.