Battery Drain

Tony Hoffman auditony at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 06:38:11 PDT 2011


Like the others have said, sounds like an alternator issue. Specifically, a
burned diode or two, allowing the alternator to consume current rather than
produce it.

Tony

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Vincent Gelinas <vrgelinas at gmail.com>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?


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