Curious on those pictures, since I don't remember what it was like when I pulled my subwoofer out. Is that a factory opening, or was that cut in by a previous owner to access fuel lines and pumps?

Which brings me to #2.. in my XJR, there's quite the gas tank behind the rear seat, so opening or no, there's not a whole lot that would be done to access the trunk.

 

That's what I was thinking too.


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Pretty sure that's an X350, not an X308

 

 

That's the difference - two different cars. The X308 has the gas tank smack dab behind the rear seat, so even if you did cut a whole in the rear seat back (there's no factory opening), you'd have no way to access anything, since you'd just have the tank up against it.

For the X308s, the only ways I know to access the trunk, are the button on the fob, the key itself, trunk button on the lid, and the dash button. With a dead battery, then you're stuck with the key, or if the cylinder is froze or broken, you can try to connect cables to the positive post under the hood to provide power to then use the power releases. And last resort, drilling the whole behind the license plate which can then allow use of a thin screwdriver or other tool to manually release the latch.

It is one of the few things I wish the car had, was a pass-through rear seat, but moving the tank would mean the lines of the X308 wouldn't be as slim as they are.