title pretty much states my question...can someone tell me how to get this thing open with tearing the decklid up? 87 gt

You have to jumper the starter. I've done it before. Rick

could you please tell me how to do this?

thanks

If you have the push button trunk release, take a power supply and ground the neg, induce 12Volt + to the orange wire of the push button switch. If you must up the parking break or clutch or what ever, then just push the button. The orange is 12 volt+ to the button. All you need is a ground to compleat the circut. I dont know where the relay is, but if you can find it it will be the black with a white stripe wire that goes to out the solinoid. Just add 12Volt + there. It is the same as pushing the button. When you hear it click remove all of your wiring an go on to the back.
Joe Crawford

Take off the center plate, Get a 9V battery, Attach wires to + and -
Just hook a wires from battery across the wires for the cig lighter (the + goes to the center wire) and push the decklid button.
It will supply enough juice to activate the solenoid.

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im getting ready to do what jose suggested but will this still work since i have both pos and neg disconnected from the battery

Yes

quote Originally posted by pontiacking: im getting ready to do what jose suggested but will this still work since i have both pos and neg disconnected from the battery

Yes it will.

Where is that darn trunk release relay?

i just tried the 9v method, but all i get is a beep, press the button and nothing. anyone know where the relay is?

It's up under the dash, under the right side of the instrument cluster. It's black and in a metal clip stuck to one of the metal bits that supports the cluster.

You could also just get a cigarette lighter plug power cable and connect it to a 12 battery such that the center is positive and the outside is negative, that will put 12V in the accessory circuit and allow you to pop the trunk too.

JazzMan

You could use jumper cables and connect to another car. you can probably get cheap cables for less than $10.

If its an automatic, you must be in park, and I think the parking brake up, stick shift clutch pedal depressed, I think with the parking brake up. These safetys are to keep it from being opened by accident while driving down the road.

well 9v couldnt quite get the job done, 12v made things glow and get interesting...so what now? set the car on fire and push it off a cliff?

Make sure the key is on,,, put the jumper cables + on the large nut, then put the ground to the engine or mount and make sure you have it hooked to a car battery,,,,, just making sure. It is easy and works fine. If the key is not on no juice gets thru the starter this way if I remember correct unless you hook to the small orange one which the cable falls off of easily. It is easier to have someone click the button while you do this underneith. Rick

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quote Originally posted by pontiacking: well 9v couldnt quite get the job done, 12v made things glow and get interesting...so what now? set the car on fire and push it off a cliff?

Made things "glow"???? Sounds like you hooked it up backwards. What are you hooking the wires to??
I have used a 9V before without a problem. I always take one with when scrounging thru junkyards for such a purpose.

On an auto the trans has to be in park, Ignition can be off.
On a manual, the clutch pedal needs to be pushed
The trunk solenoid is wire thru the Neutral Safety feature of the car.
If I recall the parking brake does not matter.

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I wasn't sure about the parking brake, glad someone did

not to be a dildo.... but how does any of us know this dude isnt tring to steal **** from an abondoned, or even a owned fiero.... the way he posted it sounded like, the car is locked up tight, i have no keys, batt is disconected (dead)... how do i "get" into the trunk... im sorry if im WAY out of line here.... but i personally wouldent have given ANY info on that one without proof of owner ship.. sorry

I wouldn't show you I was the owner as you wouldn't know me and may steal my info. He also has as many post as you so I am thinking he is a regular????

Beside if he steals it he's in trouble and everyone in the world can read this now and steal your Fiero. Honestly I wouldn't worry about it that way.
Rick

he has 57 posts dude... to my 670? i have more than you.. i was just shedding my 2 cents on the matter.. a tital with his name matching name in personal info would do.. doesnt give any info away

My trunk lock is broken on all of my fieros, so I do this trick more often than you would think.

I use the cig lighter trick now, with a little adapter I made up. Before I have used the starter trick.

quote Originally posted by 88 Silver Formula: not to be a dildo.... but how does any of us know this dude isnt tring to steal **** from an abondoned, or even a owned fiero.... the way he posted it sounded like, the car is locked up tight, i have no keys, batt is disconected (dead)... how do i "get" into the trunk... im sorry if im WAY out of line here.... but i personally wouldent have given ANY info on that one without proof of owner ship.. sorry

If he were a thief and he couldn't jump out the relay, wouldn't he eventually just "crowbar" the deck open?
Don't think he's a thief, 88. Besides, I've heard part store guys tell people to jumper starters
on lots of cars to get their remote door keypads to open doors when batteries had died and keys were in
the switch (mother-in-law was one of them).
It must be easy to punch out the lock anyway. I have a project car with a jagged hole where a lock
used to be.
Not a bad idea to be concerned though.
tg

quote Originally posted by 88 Silver Formula: he has 57 posts dude... to my 670? i have more than you.. i was just shedding my 2 cents on the matter.. a tital with his name matching name in personal info would do.. doesnt give any info away

Sorry I looked at the wrong persons post count,, its still not a reason for you to give me a red mark. If the guy was stealing it he would rip the grate of and drop a battery in then peal the colum. Allot for somene to steal a car by laying under it dont you think? Shame I get a red mark for this thread. Rick

double post

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Let me clear something up, I bought this fiero on june 12th of this year (I own three) the guy I bought the car from, his house had burnt down and lost ALL keys to the fiero in the house fire. He bought and installed an ignition lock just so I could drive it home. The reason the battery was disconnected is I was putting the fiero up for winter storage. BTW, I got it open. I used a chord for my portable air compressor that has cigarette lighter ends on both ends of the cable. Thanks to those who helped!

The discussion of whether or not someone is trolling the forum for help to break into dead Fieros comes and goes, and the concensus has always been that it is very unlikely that a potential thief is going to come here, and in any case the info on how to break into and steal GMs is so widespread it's considered common knowledge.

Don't worry about it.

JazzMan

Thanks once again everyone, +'s to EVERYONE.

sorry

If the battery is dead or there is a short somewhere it may not let you get enough power through the lighter plug.

Here is how I did it...
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/085536.html

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