We all have problems with our vehicle at some point, regardless it’s because you run out of gas, have a fuse problem, or your car won’t start, all these malfunctions often annoy us and we are generally incapable to fix them. That’s why our team tries its best to accompany you in front of these complications, and in this article we will try to show you how to close your Volkswagen Golf 8 with a dead battery? In reality, if you have no more electricity, you will not have the ability to use the central locking of your car any longer. We will first describe how to roll up a window of a Volkswagen Golf 8 with a dead battery, and secondly, how to close the doors of your Volkswagen Golf 8 without battery.
How to roll up a window from an Volkswagen Golf 8 with a dead battery?
So we will start our article with the technique to enable you to close your Volkswagen Golf 8 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 Volkswagen Golf 8, and therefore no longer have the chance to close the electric windows of your Volkswagen Golf 8. Unfortunately you don’t have many possibilities to enable you to close them, indeed, closing the electric window of a Volkswagen Golf 8 without battery is hopeless , with no power 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 destroy the motor of the window lifter of your Volkswagen Golf 8. In the event that, on the other hand, the window of your Volkswagen Golf 8 is stuck while you have battery power, please refer to this instruction to find a solution to your problem. Here are the only two answers that we can recommend, although they are quite logical:
- Purchase a new battery for your Volkswagen Golf 8 and change it , which will re-power all the electrical parts of the Volkswagen Golf 8 and thus your window lifter mechanisms. If you are looking to disconnect the battery from your Volkswagen Golf 8, do not think twice to read our article to perform this action.
- Find a automobile 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 Volkswagen Golf 8
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How to close the doors on a Volkswagen Golf 8 with a dead battery?
And now, we will surely move on to the part that interests you the more, how to close Volkswagen Golf 8 doors with no power, however , this time we will concentrate on the doors of this one. In reality, your car may be out of battery in front of your house, you been able to open the doors and try to start it, but while waiting to find an alternative you want to make sure that nobody else will be able to get inside. Unfortunately, it’s pretty much the same problem as with the windows of your Volkswagen Golf 8. 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 Volkswagen Golf 8 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 Volkswagen Golf 8, or find one in good condition. However, you will need access to the bonnet to do so
- Connect your Volkswagen Golf 8 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 vehicle. Once you have finished this, you can disconnect your battery and close your bonnet
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If you wish more guides on the Volkswagen Golf 8, go to our Volkswagen Golf 8 category.
