Hi My timing belt got broke. So we pushed car to my garage. It stayed there a week. i had to take out battery to put it in the other car. After a week I put battery back. And nothing works. No lights, completely nothing. Even after timing belt broke and we were pushing it, the power was ok, lights were on. What might be cause of that?? HELP ME PLEASE !!!
no power in my golf III. Battery is ok, no lights, no radio..nothing
Jul 11, 2005
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Battery connections clean? Did they remove the battery ground connection on the engine?
yeah check your battery connections make sure they are tight at both the battery and the other ends,also look for chaffed or broken wires around the battery and around the starter
I would take a voltmeter to the car. You can buy a digital multimeter for fairly low prices these days. $30 easily almost any day. $10 on sale at times.
Start by measuring the voltage across the battery. Then touch the black lead to a chassis ground, and make sure you still have about
12 volts to the positive terminal of the battery. Then move to the fuse area etc.connections cleaned very well, ground connection not removed.
try your fuse panel
checked all fuses, they are ok.
Some questions...
What year?
Did any of the A3's (after '95) come with immobilizers?
Don't know, I'm asking. Does this car have a fusible link in the main feed?
Mark '95 Jetta GLS
In older VW's ( like my old '89 Rabbit) there is a diode (sp) on the back of the instrument cluster...if this blows, everything goes dead.
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