We all have concerns with our motor vehicle at some point, whether it’s because you run out of gas, have a fuse issue, or your car doesn’t want to start, all these malfunctions tend to bother us and we are in most cases powerless to fix them. That’s why our team tries its best to help you in front of these complications, and in this article we will try to show you how to close your Toyota Prius with a dead battery? Indeed, if you have no more electric power, you will not have the capacity to use the central locking of your car any longer. We will first teach you how to roll up a window of a Toyota Prius with a dead battery, and secondly, how to close the doors of your Toyota Prius without battery.
How to roll up a window from an Toyota Prius with a dead battery?
So we will begin our content with the procedure to enable you to close your Toyota Prius with no power and more exactly the window of this one. Regardless whether your battery is empty, or you have taken off the battery, you will not have access to the electric controls of your Toyota Prius, and therefore no longer have the chance to close the electric windows of your Toyota Prius. Unfortunately you don’t have many alternatives to enable you to close them, indeed, closing the electric window of a Toyota Prius without battery is hopeless , without energy you don’t have the possibility to run the mechanisms of your window lifter, and whether or not 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 Toyota Prius. If it turns out, on the other hand, the window of your Toyota Prius is stuck while you have battery power, please relate to this instruction to find a solution to your issue. Here are the only two answers that we can suggest, although they are quite logical:
- Buy a new battery for your Toyota Prius and swap it , which will re-power all the electrical organs of the Toyota Prius and thus your window lifter mechanisms. If you are looking to disconnect the battery from your Toyota Prius, do not hesitate to read our guideline to execute this action.
- Find a car 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 Toyota Prius
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How to close the doors on a Toyota Prius with a dead battery?
And now, we will surely move on to the part that interests you the most, how to close Toyota Prius 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 were able to open the doors and try to start it, but while waiting to find a remedy you want to be certain that nobody will have the opportunity to get inside. Unfortunately, it’s pretty much the same issue as with the windows of your Toyota Prius. 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 Toyota Prius without power, but this is less and less the case. So we will give you as before the only two alternatives to allow you to close your car without energy:
- Buy a new battery and install it to close the doors of your Toyota Prius, or find one in good condition. Nevertheless, you will need access to the bonnet to do so
- Connect your Toyota Prius 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. Remember to close the doors of your car while it is still linked to the other car. Once you have achieved this, you can disconnect your battery and close your bonnet
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To find more tips on the Toyota Prius, take a look at the Toyota Prius category.
