To be fair, that is a dual battery R1. No clue if a jump pack has enough juice for an R2. It’s a different system.
Did you watch the video? He tried multiple booster packs and couldn't get it to work, so he brought in the Crown Vic to jump it. It's the only thing that worked so, yes, he did jump it from a car.
My mistake. Thought the question was if he jumped it from a booster pack.
It's a gen 2 standard range R1S - it's not a dual battery. Those were discontinued during Gen 1.
Yep. And they will start an R1 if it’s not 100% totally dead. And most of the time, it won’t be that dead. So I’d keep one in the car just in case.The NOCO jump pack is great for ICE's though, I have one and have helped out so many people. Amazing how many dead batteries happen in parking lots during winter! Still keep one in your vehicle, you'll be a hero
In the case where its dead enough to not start, but not so dead that it can't be jumped, will it still unlock on its own? Keeping a jump pack in the car won't help if you're locked out and can't get to it. And even in the frunk, you'd need access to the right ratchet/driver to get to the manual release.
I don't think anyone can get you a definitive answer because there are just different levels of "dead". And we don't really know what voltage range correlates to which outcome. Only way to know is to try. I do recall one persons saying their NOCO (I think same model you mentioned) allowed them to unlock. If you decide to keep one in your frunk... Some methods for storing tools to get to the manual frunk release have been discussed in the past, all 3D printed. One is this a license plate holder. The other is a tray that fits inside the trailer hitch (this one for example, many others including STL files out there), which is just big enough to fit a small ratchet and the necessary Torx bit (T27 for R2).
Ya tough call. I mean if the car won’t unlock and the jumper is in the car, you are OOO.
Another option is to use a container attached with a magnet to hold the small ratchet and torx bit for frunk access, assuming there is something steel under the vehicle that is relatively easy to access and which provides a good location for seating the container. A suitable neodymium magnet should be more than capable of holding the weight through pretty much anything you'd want to be doing in an R2 ... and probably some things you wouldn't want to be doing.
