[s-cars] Current draw/dead battery

[Fred Munro]

Jim;

The culprit on my UrS4 was the autoclose relay - fairly common problem it
seems.

Fred Munro
'97 S7

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[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Jim Furdyn
Sent: December 18, 2007 8:28 PM
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Subject: [s-cars] Current draw/dead battery


I'm getting a little frustrated with a ghost current draw that's leaving me
with a dead battery every freaking morning. This morning, I jumped it (as
usual) with my jump box that nearly has a permanent duty station behind the
front passenger seat. I'm usually good all day until I start to car to go
home. Today was different. I had a dead battery again this afternoon. Jumped
again and drive the 65 miles home. That's it, time to trouble shoot this
bitch. I pull the + lead off the batt and set the DMM to amp. It reads 24mA.
Hardly anything at all. I start pulling fuses just to see if I can get it to
change. Nothing. I pull all the relays and C/B's under the hood, nothing
again. I pull the pass carpet up and pull the fuse and C/B's at the ECU,
nothing yet again. I disconnect power from the security/vacuum pump (door
locks) and still nothing. I removed the rear seat and put it inside the
weapons van for now. I'm sick of lifting that thing off to jump the bitch
everyday anyway. So I have eliminated all the fuses and most of the C/B's
and relay's. I have yet to pull the lead off the starter or the alt to see
if I get a change in current draw. The 24mA crept up to 30mA by the time I
"said F-it, it's cold and I'm going inside" I left the DMM on the + batt
terminal and the + lead over night. I'll check it out before I go to bed
this evening to see if the mA jumped to anything bigger than 30.



Does anyone have any known culprits they could throw my way to check out? I
do not have the luxury of spending large amounts of time on this.







Jim Furdyn





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