Re: 1992 Audi S4 electrical power drain

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Paul Kennedy say:

> I have a problem with my Tornado red 1992 S4 Quattro.
> I took it back to the shop and they were unable to find any power
> drains. They scratched their heads and told me to come back if I learn
> any more about the problem. While it has been intermittent up to now, in
> the past 24 hours it's gotten worse. It's now at the stage where the
> battery will drain totally dead in 2 hours, each time I leave and lock
> the car.

Start dividing the fuses in half. If you have 32 of them, disconnect
1-16 and see if the drain stops. If so, plug in 9-16; if not, try again
with 17-32. And so on.

That's the good thing about it being so fast, you can do this in less
than several weeks.


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