We all have problems with our motor vehicle sooner or later, it doesn’t matter if it’s because you run out of gas, have a fuse problem, or your car doesn’t want to start, all these malfunctions often bother us and we are in most cases powerless to manage them. That’s why we tries its best to help you in front of these trouble, and today we will try to describe you how to lock your Kia Forte with a dead battery? Indeed, if you have no more power, you will not have the capacity to use the central locking of your car any longer. We will first show you how to roll up a window of a Kia Forte with a dead battery, and secondly, how to lock the doors of your Kia Forte without battery.

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How to roll up a window from an Kia Forte with a dead battery?

So we will start our article with the technique to let you to close your Kia Forte with no power and more precisely the window of this one. Regardless whether your battery is out of power, or you have taken off the battery, you will not have access to the electric controls of your Kia Forte, and therefore no longer have the opportunity to close the electric windows of your Kia Forte. Sadly you don’t have many solutions to let you to close them, indeed, closing the electric window of a Kia Forte without battery is unachievable , with no power you don’t have the possibility to operate the mechanisms of your window lifter, and regardless if you remove the trim of your door and try to reassemble the window manually you risk to destroy the motor of the window lifter of your Kia Forte. If it turns out, on the other hand, the window of your Kia Forte is stuck whilst you have battery power, make sure you refer to this guide to find an answer to your problem. Here are the only two answers that we can recommend, although they are quite logical:

  • Purchase a new battery for your Kia Forte and swap it , which will re-power all the electrical organs of the Kia Forte and thus your window lifter mechanisms. If you are seeking to disconnect the battery from your Kia Forte, do not be reluctant to consult our article to perform this process.
  • Find a car that has battery power and connect your two batteries with jump start wire to recharge the battery and let you to close the windows of your Kia Forte

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How to close the doors on a Kia Forte with a dead battery?

And now, we will certainly go forward to the section that interests you the most, how to close Kia Forte doors with no power, but this time we will concentrate on the doors of this one. Indeed, your car may be out of battery in front of your house, you handled to open the doors and try to start it, but while waiting to find an alternative you want to be certain that nobody will have the capability to get inside. Sadly, it’s pretty much the same problem as with the windows of your Kia Forte. Indeed, without power, it will be impossible to activate the door locking mechanisms. In some years you will have a push button on the window frame that you can press by hand to close your Kia Forte without power, but this is less and less the case. So we will give you as before the only two possibilities to allow you to close your car without energy:

  • Purchase a new battery and install it to close the doors of your Kia Forte, or find one in good condition. However, you will need access to the bonnet to do so
  • Connect your Kia Forte to a running car to transfer energy and recharge your vehicle’s battery. This will at least give you enough power to close the doors of your car. If you have any uncertainties about your battery’s ability to keep the charge. Make sure to close the doors of your car while it is still linked to the other automobile. Once you have finished this, you can disconnect your battery and close your bonnet

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In the event that you have any additional questions about the Kia Forte, do not hesitate to consult our Kia Forte category.