no power in my golf III. Battery is ok, no lights, no radio..nothing

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 !!!

Reply to
grzesczorny
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Battery connections clean? Did they remove the battery ground connection on the engine?

Reply to
Woodchuck

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

Reply to
gutlessjetta

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.
Reply to
Tom's VR6

connections cleaned very well, ground connection not removed.

Reply to
grzesczorny

try your fuse panel

Reply to
gutlessjetta

checked all fuses, they are ok.

Reply to
grzesczorny

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

Reply to
Mark Randol

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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Dr.Dementia

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