Battery Drain

[Grant Lenahan]

clearly your alternator/regulator either:

1 is not regulating
2 putting out insufficient voltage and/or current - only overcome by greater rpms

loose belt?

check voltage across rpm range

load test system,

ghet back to us

Grant

On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Vincent Gelinas wrote:

> I have an interesting problem in my 99 A8q 4.2 - at idle speeds my battery
> drains like hell.  When I'm cruising on the freeway or hooning through some
> corners and the RPMs are a bit higher, I have no issues, but when I go back
> to idle, if the battery isn't charged, she just dies.  Any BTDT or advice?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> V
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