High current draw with car off - Was: What's the best replacementfuel line?

[Grant Lenahan]

I dont have numbers on a similar car - but I dont buy this.
Plenty of people leave their cars for weeks at airports and they start.

I'd keep looking.

Grant
On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Scott Phillips wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Sorry no firsthand experience here, but I wouldn't leave a car for a 
> few
> weeks with the battery connected and expect it to start. I would put a
> solar trickle charger in the window to keep that battery from depleting
> itself (That's what the dealerships do with current cars).
>
> Whenever I put a car into storage, I would just disconnect the battery
> and when I came back re-connect it and start right up.
>
> Re- your specific issue. 300mA to excessive.. not really the circuits
> weren't too efficient and you can still have any number of unknown
> components with a drain.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
> On Behalf Of Kevin Hoff
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:26 PM
> To: 'Quattro List'
> Subject: High current draw with car off - Was: What's the best
> replacementfuel line?
>
> A follow up from a while back and new question:
>
> I ended up getting 5/16" steel brake line from the same store as 
> before.
> This stuff is made for big trucks with air brakes.  It's almost exactly
> the
> same size as the metric fuel lines that came on the car and is coated
> with a
> similar epoxy as well.  Pretty nice stuff, although it would have been
> nice
> to find Aluminum.
>
> So now this old car is throwing every trick in the book at me...  It 
> was
> killing the battery overnight even with a fresh new one.  I connected
> the
> DMM to it and discovered a continuous draw of 4A even with EVERYTHING
> turned
> off.  Crazy.  So after tons of debugging, sealing cracked/shorted wires
> in
> the trunk, cleaning every connector in the engine bay, pulling every
> fuse
> and relay, and pulling the radio, I still ended up with a draw of about
> 300
> mA - enough to kill the battery in about a week...  It turns out that
> almost
> all of that draw is from the trip computer - unplugging the trip
> computer
> from the back of the instrument panel reduces the draw to 5 mA and
> unplugging the clock power reduces the draw to virtually zero.
>
> So my question:  Is ~300 mA the REAL draw that I should expect from the
> trip
> computer?  It seems excessive, as the battery could be pulled quite low
> if
> the car was parked for a few weeks.  My other car (a Subaru Impreza)
> pulls
> about 25 with the alarm on, less with it off.  Does anyone have a 4kq
> with a
> working trip computer and no known electrical problems that could
> measure
> the load?  You would need to ensure that the stereo is unplugged,
> including
> any add-on amps, and take the key out with the doors closed.  Then pull
> the
> battery ground and put a decent digital multimeter between the ground
> wire
> and the - post on the battery.
>
> Thanks for reading my novel,
> --Kevin Hoff
> Durham, NC
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kneale Brownson [mailto:kneale at coslink.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:47 AM
>> To: Kevin Hoff; 'Quattro List'
>> Subject: RE: What's the best replacement fuel line?
>>
>> Fuel line usually is steel.  If it's the right inside
>> diameter, the kind of stuff he used for the brakes should
>> work for the fuel.
>>
>> As an alternative, you can use a flexible hose product
>> designed for supplying high-pressure fuel.  Sometimes called
>> fuel injector hose.  Any good FLAPS should handle it.  Be
>> certain to get the special hose clamps designed for high
>> pressue fuel line application.  Only real problem with this
>> stuff is it's much larger outside diameter than steel lines
>> and won't fit inside the clips Audi uses to hold the fuel ines.
>>
>>
>>
>> At 11:53 PM 10/30/2006 -0500, Kevin Hoff wrote:
>>> That's very true but before I walk the gauntlet (the guy is pretty
>>> crotchety!) I'd like to figure out what material to request.
>
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