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Nothing bike related so sorry
Trigger:
Flush then Mick ;)
Green1:
Thanks again Graham I will give it a go tomorrow if I don't get distracted again
Mick
AshimotoK0:
Don't want to hijack your thread Mick but really scratching my head too over my daughters Micra 2004, which I got her a couple of months back. It's only done 15k miles. Bought a new Yuasa battery for it but it self discharges in a couple of days (I am sure that the battery is not at fault) . Charged the battery for 8 hours@5amps as it's a 45 amp/hour battery . Monitored the current drain with Fluke DVM on the car and it starts at about 0.6A then quickly drops to 50 mA. Charge light goes off and charging at 14.5 'ish volts at tick-over so charging OK. No interior lights left on. Battery terminals clean and Vaselined. Charges fine after jump start.
Pulled the fuse that feeds the audio (no audio anyway as she doesn't have the code.) Going to monitor with a PC logger to graph current leakage overnight, once I have been to work to pick up the gear up to do it.
Read somewhere on line that the ECU can start checking the electrical circuits at random as a fault which discharges battery. Also that radio keeps trying to select CD. possible ECU reprogramming could fix.
Anyone got any ideas? Want to walk into dealer fully armed with as much info as possible if it comes to that.
Ash
Told her I should have got her a Jazz ::) (although they can eat gearbox bearings if you get a bad 'un)
Trigger:
Try a volts check first thing in the morning. It should read 12.5 V. Start it up and it should go up to about 14 V. One way to test a battery is fully charge, see what the volts are, leave it and see how much it drops.
It is the problem with modern stuff, they want aircraft tech at budget price. Have you had anyone plug it in to see if it is showing any fault codes?
Green1:
Hi Ash not a problem
My brother has just told me that the micra has a software program that continuously checks everything is turned off and this is a common problem on micras. ??? Apparently it can be switched off.
He has also known the keyless entry to play up
Unfortunately he has ended up in kwikfit so doesn't mess with cars anymore.
Mick
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