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



 
 
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Old July 11th 05, 10:19 PM
grzesczorny
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Default 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 !!!

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Old July 12th 05, 03:09 AM
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Battery connections clean? Did they remove the battery ground connection on
the engine?

"grzesczorny" > wrote in message
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> 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 !!!
>



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Old July 12th 05, 08:39 PM
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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

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Old July 12th 05, 11:34 PM
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In rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled, grzesczorny wrote:

>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 !!!


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.


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Old July 13th 05, 04:32 AM
grzesczorny
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connections cleaned very well, ground connection not removed.

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Old July 14th 05, 12:28 AM
gutlessjetta
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try your fuse panel

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Old July 15th 05, 12:15 AM
grzesczorny
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checked all fuses, they are ok.

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Old July 16th 05, 12:36 AM
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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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