On September 30 the Crossfire was driven to a car show. The top was put down for the drive home. When the car got home the top would not go down but a little bit and somehow the trunk would not open. The owner said in trying to get the top up the red light on the push button switch stuck on and after a few minutes started blinking and in about ten minutes it went off.

We went out to the owner’s place on October 6 to take a look and through some sort of sequence we cannot recall trying to get the top up/down the trunk unlocked. Once the trunk was open we found the Divider spacer was not hooked into position (the problem back on 5/10/2023 when we went out there and got the top working) so we hooked into place and closed the trunk. But two or three more tries we made no progress on getting the top down although the trunk did unlock.

The last thing we did was get the top up but at the back it is not firmly all the way down. And again the little red light did it's little thing again. The trunk then would not open. That's where we left it.



10/7/2023 - Drove CF and it beep beep beeped and the light stayed on.

We drove out to the owner’s place again to try to get the trunk open to be able
to access the rear top manual lock with the 6mm hex head based on info
pulled from the netweb last night. False info on the net web...there is NO
yellow emergency release handle/cable in the car! We tried the key fob
thingy while pulling up on the trunk lift handle but this was a bust
because both key fobs were NOT WORKING BECAUSE THE # 2025
BATTERIES WERE DEAD! So this afternoon we stopped by Batteries Plus and bought batteries. The key fob takes TWO 3V
batteries. Back at it Friday afternoon after we followed the owner home and neither key fob worked to do anything….doors, trunk, nothing.
I removed the license plate and confirmed there is NO emergency trunk release cable behind it like I hjad seen in a photograph. Then I removed the two screws from the right license plate light and after that called it quits. Too tight, too cumnbersome, too awkward and the opening is tiny.

10/20/2023 – Could NOT get the console button looking like a key to open the trunk. We heard noises in the trunk but the trunk didn’t open. But partial success…when I started the car the annoying continuous beeping stopped. Started the car a second time and NO beeping. The little red light stays on until we turn the car off and it goes out after 5 or so minutes. Perhaps the owner can drive the car now with the top up.

The ONLY place within at least 100 miles that can work on this car (they got it running again last fall) is short of technicians and said it would be into next year before they can look it.

Any ideas how to get the trunk open? Or keep the thing from beeping so the owner can at least drive the car with the top up.

Thanks

 

For one, you do not remove the screws to remove the license plate light, the assembly pops out. I suggest you use the search feature at the top RH corner of the page, and you will get plenty of info as it is too extensive to cover here. Please learn a little bit about what you are doing before going any further.

 

After fourteen years, I am tired of explaining this, Zeracer made an attempt, but I" too tired of saying the same thing over and over and over again.

Here you go, read thru this carefully, the trunk won't open because the cycle did not complete:
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...id-jammed.html

 

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