Flat battery

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GRF

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Twice recently my Jan 2004, 4200 CC has had a flat battery after standing for 4-5 days. Normally the car is fine for 4-5 weeks. An ammeter shows that there is a discharge of 0.0 amps for 4 minutes, then approximately 0.5 amps for 4 minutes; 0.0amps for 4 mins then 0.5 amps - this pattern continues while being tested (over a couple of days). It makes no difference if the alarm is on or off. I have unplugged every fuse & relay in the boot, under the bonnet and in the passenger footwell and nothing makes any difference to the 4 minute pattern. Could this be the sat tracking system - fitted but not used?
Ideas please?
Gary
 
hodroyd

hodroyd

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If you can find the tracker battery just disconnect it, they are usually the problem as they are always trying to charge themselves..!! If you contact such as Navtrak / Cobra in the UK, give them your car number, or VIN, or both, they can check their records to see if it one of theirs..!! They sometimes will also come out and take the battery off for you FOC, or at least tell you where it is located in your car..!!
 
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GRF

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Tracker removed and problem seems to be solved.

If you find that you need to do the same task my Jan 2005 4200 CC had the Navtrak units fitted under the parcel shelf (as other members had said) and the connections into the car's loom - red and blue wires with in line fuses and a black wire - were made in the boot to the right hand side of the petrol tank.

Thanks to those who offered advice.

Gary
 
safrane

safrane

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Please don't tell everyone where and how...I would like the robbing gits to spend so much time trying to find it that they are caught by the neighbours and given a beating or by the cops and given a cosy cell.
 
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