Locking Legacy BP5 boot

[Andy_Mac]

Dumb question time.

Is there any way of locking the boot on a 4th gen wagon when there is no power. Was charging the battery the other night and thought id leave it there overnight, went to just lock the car manually and realised there was no obvious way to do the boot without central locking.

[Joker]

RTFM sorry no help otherwise, there might be a Manuel override?

BG sunroof has a cap you pull off and put a alien key in to manually wind it closed / open for example?

[sobanoodle]

Cannot find anything on that sorry - only how to unlock if there's no power, I have a similarly dumb question: How would you move the gear knob when the car is off i.e shift it from P to N to roll the car a bit?.. There used to be a button for that, not anymore at it seems.

[Andy_Mac]

Haha the beauty of jap cars is there is never a readable manual. Tried online with no luck either. Seems like something there should be an easy dolution for.

its called get a mans trannsmission haha. But setiously never knew ignition was actually required to change gears in auto.

[Joker]

 sobanoodle said:

How would you move the gear knob when the car is off i.e shift it from P to N to roll the car a bit?.. There used to be a button for that, not anymore at it seems.

on the missus Mazda you push the slot down with ur key or slim/flatblade screwdriver

not sure bout new subbies tho

[ADIKT]

My pre face lift 04 bl5 had a button next to shifter. My 07 bp5 wagon didn't.

[killervq30de]

 sobanoodle said:

Cannot find anything on that sorry - only how to unlock if there's no power, I have a similarly dumb question: How would you move the gear knob when the car is off i.e shift it from P to N to roll the car a bit?.. There used to be a button for that, not anymore at it seems.

Can't find the link but you pop the trim around the shifter and I think theres a button on the top left hand side

[Andy_Mac]

Na i've pulled that whole area apart when i did the audio and there's definately no hidden buttons round that area. Not exactly sure how it'd work unless its cable operated anyway which would be completely impractical.

Think its just one of those annoying things that was overlooked when designed