[Vwdiesel] Odd Power Drain

[James Hansen]

FOld down the rear seat, and observe if the trunk light is on. If so, 
trunk switch, sensor actually.
Could be a stuck load reduction relay, pull the load reduction relays on 
the fuse panel, see if that helps.
-james

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/5/2009 17:35:33 Pacific Standard Time, davevw at yahoo.com 
> writes:
> 
>> On an '01 Jetta TDI w/auto trans.
>>
>> The battery will hold a charge for a couple days just fine, then after a 
>> couple days, it will be dead enough to not start the car and will eventually 
>> drain all the way down.
>>
> 
>  Dad had similar problem with his Golf and Passat TDI's.  In his 
> case he leaves the keys in the car.  When you do that without 
> pulling it out and putting it back in, something/several things 
> stay on and it really drains the battery.  He got in the habbit 
> of popping the key out and back or pulling it and setting it on the 
> console.  It still goes dead in a week or two but without doing 
> that it was a matter of a couple days or so.
>     Loren
> 
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