We all have concerns with our motor vehicle sooner or later, it doesn’t matter if it’s because you run out of gas, have a fuse trouble, or your car doesn’t want to start, all these malfunctions often annoy us and we are in most cases powerless to fix them. That’s why we tries its best to help you in front of these complications, and today we will make sure to teach you how to lock your Volkswagen Golf 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 anymore. We will first explain how to roll up a window of a Volkswagen Golf with a dead battery, and secondly, how to lock the doors of your Volkswagen Golf without battery.

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How to roll up a window from an Volkswagen Golf with a dead battery?

So we will commence our article content with the methodology to enable you to close your Volkswagen Golf with no power and more specifically the window of this one. Whether your battery is empty, or you have taken off the battery, you will not have access to the electric controls of your Volkswagen Golf, and therefore no longer have the possibility to close the electric windows of your Volkswagen Golf. Regrettably you don’t have many possibilities to enable you to close them, indeed, closing the electric window of a Volkswagen Golf 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 break the motor of the window lifter of your Volkswagen Golf. In cases where, on the other hand, the window of your Volkswagen Golf is stuck while you have battery power, please refer to this guide to get a solution to your trouble. Here are the only two answers that we can recommend, although they are quite logical:

  • Acquire a new battery for your Volkswagen Golf and swap it , which will re-power all the electrical parts of the Volkswagen Golf and thus your window lifter mechanisms. If you are looking to disconnect the battery from your Volkswagen Golf, do not hesitate to browse our article to perform this process.
  • Find a motor 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 Volkswagen Golf

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How to close the doors on a Volkswagen Golf with a dead battery?

And now, we will surely go forward to the section that interests you the more, how to close Volkswagen Golf doors with no power, but 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 a remedy you want to ensure that no one will be able to get inside. Regrettably, it’s pretty much the same trouble as with the windows of your Volkswagen Golf. 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 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:

  • Acquire a new battery and install it to close the doors of your Volkswagen Golf, or find one in good condition. However, you will need access to the bonnet to do so
  • Connect your Volkswagen Golf 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 doubts 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 done this, you can disconnect your battery and close your bonnet

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Whenever you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Golf, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Golf category.