I'm almost embarrassed to ask this...
 

How do you open the back when the battery is dead or disconnected?

I disconnected the battery do work on the car, but could not figure out how to open the trunk again to re-connect the battery. :rolleyes:

You can't. Fold the back seat down and crawl in, re-connect the battery. Solved.

Yep, foolishly there is no mechanical override. Wave of the future!

Thank you guys, I was really feeling dumb...

It's not you, its them.

There are manual releases for both the lift gate and the tail gate - they are mentioned in the owners manual.

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You can also apply power at the B+ under the hood that's easier than crawling through the car.

Ditto...you can either do the manual unlock procedure outlined in the owners manual for the tail gate & lift gate...or connect a battery charger or jumper cables (using a donor vehicle) to the terminals in the engine bay. This should provide enough power to either use the tailgate release button on the lower dash or your remote fob trunk release button. And just in case you're not familiar with them...see the info below (also from the owners manual).


I recommend using the "special nut" located on the left fender for negative ground because you actually want this to work...using something else may not be truly grounded thus powering the tailgate won't work with power only to the B+ engine bay terminal. :)

This is great info, I've done this very same thing myself and once, while working on the engine heard the "thud" of the rear door when my wife thought she was being 'helpful'. :D

Thank you !!

I was going to ask next, what if the electrical part od the release latch failed...
But I got my answer before... Thanks !!