Have a cold. Whole family has a cold. Kid's been sick since Friday. Battery died on Sunday. Had to borrow the wife's car to go grocery shopping. Decided to buy a battery while I was out. Pull the battery. Close the trunk because it's outside and looks like it's likely to rain. - The battery is in the trunk. - Which is electrically-actuated. - If the battery is dead, you can attach a jumper cable to a little pull-out thingy in the fuse box, which is down by the driver's left knee. - If the battery is removed, no circuit is formed. HAVE NO FEAR THOUGH! There's a manual release cable! - First you get your lug nut key out of the trunk. - Then you get your jack and jack handle out of the trunk. - Then you jack up the front of the car and remove the right front tire. - Then you pull four grommet nuts and four T20 torx screws. - Then you pull the fender well out of the way. - Then you go fishing. Or, you know, you do complicated shit with your arm and shoulder because duh that wheel ain't comin' off bro hope you like contortion. So great. You tugged and you tugged and despite the fact that the fine folx at Rennlist insist you need to use a bent coat hanger, you got it open. And you got the battery in. And you went with an H8 because an H7 has made the thing start like it's half a battery down since new, and although you've got holes for H5 H6 H7 and H8, the H8 one doesn't have a nut welded to the back because of course it doesn't, so you zip-tie the hold-down for the moment. And now's where you discover that the trunk release cable, which hasn't been pulled on since the car was factory new, is just as happy to stick in trunk OPEN as it is in trunk CLOSED so now you need to take the front fascia out so you can reset the emergency latch mechanism to the point where you can actually close your goddamn trunk. If I were of sounder mind I would have left a post-it note under the battery that says "if you can read this WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T CLOSE THE TRUNK" but after three hours in the growing dark with a head cold? Good thing I need to take it back out again to put in a 10mm nut I don't own yet. Clever, clever Hans and his magic trunx