A fellow camper on this site flattened the battery on his new Tourneo by running his fridge overnight on 12V. He opened the driver's door with the key and the rear hatch, however the passenger door and the sliding doors remained electronically locked. Obviously he needed to get under the bonnet to jumpstart the car but the bonnet locking handle is built-in to the passenger doorframe and therefore inaccessible when the door is shut. Presumably this is a 'leftover' from a LHD design where that particular door would be the key lockable driver's door.
He got over the problem by plugging a power pack into the bootc12V socket which worked in reverse and provided power to unlock the passenger door. His power pack was then empty so he had to ask another camper to help start the car from my their's
Two other issues noted:
It looks impossible to remove the battery without dismantling the engine compartment
These cars look like brilliant dog wagons and tow cars, but why do they have such abysmal towing weight limits?
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