We all have concerns with our vehicle at some point, regardless whether it’s because you run out of gas, have a fuse issue, or your car doesn’t want to start, all these malfunctions often annoy us and we are generally incapable to handle them. That’s why our team tries its best to accompany you in front of these concerns, and in this article we will make sure to teach you how to lock your Opel Antara with a dead battery? Indeed, if you have no more electric power, you will not have the ability to use the central locking of your car any longer. We will first demonstrate how to roll up a window of a Opel Antara with a dead battery, and secondly, how to lock the doors of your Opel Antara without battery.
How to roll up a window from an Opel Antara with a dead battery?
So we will start our article with the technique to enable you to close your Opel Antara with no power and more precisely the window of this one. Regardless whether your battery is empty, or you have removed the battery, you will not have access to the electric controls of your Opel Antara, and therefore no longer have the chance to close the electric windows of your Opel Antara. Unfortunately you don’t have many possibilities to enable you to close them, indeed, closing the electric window of a Opel Antara without battery is impossible , without energy you don’t have the possibility to run the mechanisms of your window lifter, and even if you remove the trim of your door and try to reassemble the window manually you risk to break the motor of the window lifter of your Opel Antara. If, on the other hand, the window of your Opel Antara is stuck whilst you have battery power, make sure you refer to this guideline to find a remedy to your issue. Here are the only two answers that we can recommend, although they are quite logical:
- Buy a new battery for your Opel Antara and replace it , which will re-power all the electrical parts of the Opel Antara and thus your window lifter mechanisms. If you are looking to disconnect the battery from your Opel Antara, do not be reluctant to browse our guideline to conduct this process.
- Find a vehicle that has battery power and connect your two batteries with jump start wire to recharge the battery and enable you to close the windows of your Opel Antara
.
How to close the doors on a Opel Antara with a dead battery?
And now, we will certainly advance to the part that interests you the more, how to close Opel Antara doors with no power, nevertheless this time we will focus on the doors of this one. Indeed, your car may be out of battery in front of your house, you managed to open the doors and try to start it, but while waiting to find an answer you want to be certain that nobody else will be able to get inside. Unfortunately, it’s pretty much the same issue as with the windows of your Opel Antara. 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 manually to close your Opel Antara without power, but this is less and less the case. So we will give you as before the only two answers to allow you to close your car without energy:
- Buy a new battery and install it to close the doors of your Opel Antara, or find one in good condition. However, you will need access to the bonnet to do so
- Connect your Opel Antara 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 worries about your battery’s ability to keep the charge. Make sure you close the doors of your car while it is still linked to the other vehicle. Once you have finished this, you can disconnect your battery and close your bonnet
.
If you wish more tutorials on the Opel Antara, go to our Opel Antara category.
