Disconnect the negative battery cable.
Sadly our 17 year old Honda CRV will have to be replaced some day. Why do I need to disconnect the battery? alternate suggestions welcome! (hint, newer thank ours CRVs are heavier and the 2015 has...
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This would make the job easier!
http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/CatalogItemDetail.aspx/Battery-Disconnect-Switch-Universal-Top-Mount-w-o-Fused-Bypass/_/R-NW_785116_0282529016
If you have side post that threads into the battery, they make a version for that type as well.
I had a 99 Honda CRV, the seats where a bit thin, but they upgraded those a few years later. Now I tow a 07Ford Edge.
A friend of ours parked his car in the RV storage lot, and took a month long vacation. With a dead battery in the car, the power door unlocker would not work, and he could not use the key to unlock the door, I guess it just was a switch that unlocked the power doors. So he had to have a mechanic open the hood, and charge the car a little bit, before he could open the doors. My Honda required opening the doors to get the hood open too! So when you install that battery disconnect, with someone in the car, (or the windows down) lock all the doors, then disconnect the electric. Try the door key to open it and see if it works. Otherwise you might need to leave the hood popped open 1/2 way and hope that someone does not 'close it for you - I saw it was propped open a bit'.
Or you could install a 12 volt line from outside the car, to allow hooking up the ground wire to run the door locks (run a wire from the battery side of this ground connector to a ground outside of the car, that you can connect while running the door openers. Example - run a green wire and touch it to a bolt on the hitch frame when you want to unlock the car).
You should be able to find these battery switches at any local auto parts store.
Fred.
http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/CatalogItemDetail.aspx/Battery-Disconnect-Switch-Universal-Top-Mount-w-o-Fused-Bypass/_/R-NW_785116_0282529016
If you have side post that threads into the battery, they make a version for that type as well.
I had a 99 Honda CRV, the seats where a bit thin, but they upgraded those a few years later. Now I tow a 07Ford Edge.
A friend of ours parked his car in the RV storage lot, and took a month long vacation. With a dead battery in the car, the power door unlocker would not work, and he could not use the key to unlock the door, I guess it just was a switch that unlocked the power doors. So he had to have a mechanic open the hood, and charge the car a little bit, before he could open the doors. My Honda required opening the doors to get the hood open too! So when you install that battery disconnect, with someone in the car, (or the windows down) lock all the doors, then disconnect the electric. Try the door key to open it and see if it works. Otherwise you might need to leave the hood popped open 1/2 way and hope that someone does not 'close it for you - I saw it was propped open a bit'.
Or you could install a 12 volt line from outside the car, to allow hooking up the ground wire to run the door locks (run a wire from the battery side of this ground connector to a ground outside of the car, that you can connect while running the door openers. Example - run a green wire and touch it to a bolt on the hitch frame when you want to unlock the car).
You should be able to find these battery switches at any local auto parts store.
Fred.
