How many of you guys know about the secret trunk latch in the 3G TL? It's used to unlock your trunk when your battery is dead.

 

i know about it. had to use it when i was removing the rear garnish and unhooked the connector harness then closed the trunk. whoops.

 

where is said latch

 

^open the ski pass through in the backseat and put your hand through it and go straight up and you'll feel a little cloth tag and yank on it.

 

this option already existed on 2nd TL.

 

still pretty cool

 

yup thats a 2nd gen TL in that pic, but the 3rd gen is same location. makes sense.

 

cant wait to see the poll results.

 

^i'm on the edge of my seat.

 

I knew there was a thing in the trunk to pull but I never really looked to find out where it was located, so I guess I did not know you could get to it through the cabin. Good to know since I keep my jumpers in the trunk, they'd be difficult to get to if the battery was completely drained.

 

I'm not seeing a "Whiskers" option!

 

"Whiskers" option is reserved for Ramblings.

I knew about it. Most cars have them. It also helps people that gets locked in trunks.

 

i hate it when that happens.

 

Yeah but I took mine out so they can't get out

 

^Smart move.

And thanks OP, I didn't know about this.

 

I think most cars have them.

 

Yeah, usually I see them as a glow in the dark handle like on the ceiling of the trunk, not through the hole to the back seat.

 

I'm pretty sure every car is required to have this feature.

 

its not some fancy option we have. its a law to have these, every car i have owned has this.

http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2...ves-lives.html

 

 

There is an emergency lever for people stuck in the trunk, that's the glow in the dark latch, however the secret latch I'm referring to is completely different.

 

I knew about the emergency inside trunk release, but not about the one in the pass through. Interesting info.

To the people mentioning trunk releases being required, yeah, it's actually been federally mandated on cars sold after 2002 that any vehicle with a compartment wholly separated from the passenger compartment of a vehicle and capable of fitting a 3 year old child dummy must have an emergency mechanical inside release.

While this mostly applies to cars with trunks, it also weirdly applies to thinks like the "Rambox" bedside storage compartments on Ram pickups. The releases also must be glow in the dark and have a pictogram describing their function (which is often a person humorously jumping out of a trunk and running away).

http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/571.401

Run away!! Lol.

 

Please raise your hand now if you didn't read the manual.


Keep your hand up-I'll let you know when you can put it down......

 

I'm going to have to go outside and try to find it now.

 

mine is behind a big ol speaker.

 

Wait... so this pops the trunk open?
So... that one time I forced 1/3 of my body through the pass-through to get to the cables behind my cargo-net to boost the car... when that entire time I could've pumped my trunk?! ARRRG fail...

 

I knew there was a T-handle release behind the pass-through, but not that there was a separate "emergency" release catch on the trunk lid just above the latch.

Both the in-trunk releases are identified in the owners manual, and I've never ever had occasion to use the in-trunk release in any car.

 

didnt know there was one accessible from the pass through.

 

see, I knew there were plenty of people who didnt know about this, if this thread has taught you anything please "THANK" my original post

 

I was thinking a different type of secret latch

 

^what a horrible gif.

 

 

^a horribly made gif. nothing is lined up, its choppy, bad breaks, etc.

 

I thought it was a picture. Now I feel informed

 

pictures dont move...

excuse me while i light mah spliff....

 

Where's the gif from? Characters look somewhat familiar

 

That one movie where the chick turns into a guy and the guy turns into the chick and something about prom