Flat battery success !!

[Sheepdip]

It started last year when Stag battery started failing, bought a new one and the same happened a few weeks later. Intermittent or what, its plagued me the last few months and resorted to carrying the old battery in the auto boot. After yesterdays failure I stuck a meter on the battery and found 0.2a quiescent (:shock current, systematically removed fuses and traced it to fuse 1.......which covers the glove box light. Sure enough gently pushing lid in and current dropped, must have been right on the edge.Adjusted and hopefully resolved.

Worth checking if you have similar problems.

Paul

[Tdm]

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Sheepdip wrote:

It started last year when Stag battery started failing, bought a new one and the same happened a few weeks later. Intermittent or what, its plagued me the last few months and resorted to carrying the old battery in the auto boot. After yesterdays failure I stuck a meter on the battery and found 0.2a quiescent (:shock current, systematically removed fuses and traced it to fuse 1.......which covers the glove box light. Sure enough gently pushing lid in and current dropped, must have been right on the edge.Adjusted and hopefully resolved.

Worth checking if you have similar problems.

Paul

Had similar problem a few years ago - I simply removed the bulb as I seldom use the glove box and drive the car mainly during daylight hours. Also found a similar problem with the boot light and cured that by putting an exta switch and contact point in the circuit near the boot release button itself.

[Sheepdip]

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I had removed the bootlight but hadn't thought of the glovebox. With a few extras like cd/immobiliser/electric aerial/cruise etc I thought it might be one of those.

[stagstr]

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This happened to me a few years ago and it turned out to be the clock. It seems I've got a rarity - a working clock - but I've had to disconnect it to save the battery:X.

Ray