So how does one lock the tailgate when the battery is dead?

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[MandKM]

Thanks all for your responses and especially @Zandcwhite. It appears that Zach has an answer for everything, except maybe how to unlock the tailgate if the battery is dead .

 

[Zandcwhite]

Thanks all for your responses and especially @Zandcwhite. It appears that Zach has an answer for everything, except maybe how to unlock the tailgate if the battery is dead .

Only have 3 answers for that, one of which you'd already figured out. Use another battery? Hook up the jumper cables or jump box since starting it is probably more important than unlocking the tailgate anyway? Put it on a charger, and within a few minutes you'd have enough juice to unlock/lock the Jeep? Personally I'd just charge it until it would start, but if you are only concerned with the locks that shouldn't take long.

 

[MandKM]

Only have 3 answers for that, ….

I agree. Unfortunately, even an hour on the charger wasn’t enough to get the electrical system working and the jump box didn’t help either. Once I was able to lock up the Jeep, I left it on the charger overnight and all was good by morning.

I always relied on the jump box in the past, but now I think the cables will be in the Jeep as well.

As to the inability to lock/unlock the tailgate when the battery is dead, I think Stellantis dropped the ball on that one.

 

[SWVA JLUR]

I actually ran into this issue recently. The fuse array blew, and even though the batteries were good, no power was going to the Jeep and the dealership had closed 30 minutes earlier. I couldn’t lock the tailgate since there is no keyhole and no power to the jeep, so I emptied as many items as possible and crossed my fingers. It should have a keyhole.

 

[Flip]

I'm not rubbing salt in the would fellers but I believe old school methods serve there purpose. Manual windows & locks are a good example.

 

[Cartman]

But can anybody help how to LoCK tailgate when you disconnect batery manualy?

 

[Zandcwhite]

Y'all do realize that it's not remotely difficult to break into a locked vehicle right? And if you've got a soft top you're probably better off never locking it as the 2 seconds with a pocket knife it takes them to get in will cost you more than everything they could steal out of the Jeep. I realized Sunday that my wife dropped her key in the front seat when she got home from work...Friday. Sat there for 2 days not only unlocked but with the key in it. With tools, recovery gear, etc inside. I'm not saying never lock your Jeep, but unless vehicles in your neighborhood are broken into daily odds are the 1 in a million chance you of a dead battery and an unlocked Jeep probably won't mean much.

 

[Nokones]

If you have a dual battery system then you won't have a dead battery situation and if you did for some freak reason, all you have to is flip the switch if you have a Genesis Gen 3 Dual Battrry System with Odyssey batteries.

 

[bonniejf]

I have a Sport, my key doesn’t have a battery. Just a metal thing I stick in the door and turn. Don’t understand the question maybe.

I believe if you open your key fob up you will indeed find a battery. CR2450

 

[Rhinebeck01]

@Poseidon20

I believe if you open your key fob up you will indeed find a battery. CR2450

You are correct! ... It will have both a circuit board and a CR2450 battery. All JL's have both...

Read here:
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/fob-101-know-thy-jl-key-fob.88719/page-2#post-1855159

 

[Ratbert]

I stumbled onto this "unlocked with keys in the ignition" Willys a few days ago:

 

[C.Sco]

I stumbled onto this "unlocked with keys in the ignition" Willys a few days ago:

Sir, you're not supposed to post pornography here, this is a family website

 

[Heimkehr]

it's not remotely difficult to break into a locked vehicle

The AAA rollback driver that got into my locked truck didn't need 2 minutes. He used a little inflatable puffy bag (I don't know the technical name) to extend the top part of the door frame outward just enough to slip in a long flat rod (again, the proper name eludes me) that pressed the power lock switch. Done.

 

[Cartman]

Nobody understand that question is not how to unlock the tailgate when battery is dead, but how to lock the tailgate whren batteries in the vehicle are disconnected?

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