Electrical Demon Discovered and Destroyed!
02-11-2007, 05:24 AM
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Electrical Demon Discovered and Destroyed!
Finally found out the mysterious battery draining bug. After a few shade tree, back country, non convensional methods we discovered it to be the seat heaters. Anyone else out there have a problem with this and are the seat heater switches available separately from the AC controls?
02-11-2007, 06:22 AM
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No, but wish more folks would post "fixes". Sure is frustrating when you STFA
and find posts about problems and they never come back and post what they found or how they fixed it.
02-11-2007, 06:52 AM
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that's why I always try to take time for pics
Many things seem so simple but it always helps to have pics/info to search for. For example, as simple as it is.. I'm afraid quite a few people would appreciate pics of headlight bulb replacement.
02-11-2007, 06:55 AM
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Look into buying ETKA for the S4 on ebay. It has schematics of all the parts...
of the car, which helps you figure out how things come apart and if parts are sold separately. It used to be only like $15. Added benefit is you don't have to deal with the parts guys saying they can't find it, since you just give them the part number and they order it or better yet just order from http://www.worldimpex.com/.
02-11-2007, 10:49 AM
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Yeah, due to the fact that my car would sit at the tow yard while I was in the truck I would return to it the morning after only to discover that the battery was dead or damn near close. I chased this thing around for a while, fuses, replaced the battery, replaced the alternator, and nothin'. So, I followed the drain closely and discovered it to be draining in 7-12 hours making the significant draw of about 500 miliamps. No, fuses showed on a test lamp and there was no jump on a multimeter, so we used a old as dial guage and pulled every fuse and relay to discover the seat heaters were the culprit.
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02-11-2007, 10:56 AM
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Yeah, A Bentley I Purchased From ECS
Works pretty well and says that the switch has its own reostat, but I was looking for additional information or if there was a spare or remote relay.
