Re: battery drain while parked - why?

[Robert Houk - SMCC WorkGroup Server Firmware <Robert.Houk@East.Sun.COM>]

   I returned from two weeks vacation to discover this morning that my battery
   was completely dead.  (Radio was off, doors closed).  This has happened
   before, in only five days time, when I was working on the car.  At the time
   I thought I must have left a door ajar and dismissed it.

   a) Is there some Audi part that's infamous for causing this problem?  Some
   place to start troubleshooting?

I used to poo poo the notion that Audis ate batteries; after a few more
years experience, I've come to the conclusion that via some not-as-yet
understood perversion of Reality, Audis do indeed eat car batteries.
I don't understand it. I've measured the "static" current draw (verifying
no trunk lights left glowing merrily in the dark, etc.). I've verified
the voltage getting to the battery, that contacts are clean, that it is
charging as I drive around. Etc. And so forth.

It's just a fact of life -- Audis do indeed eat car batteries.

					-RDH