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Radio flattens battery

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Rockstarsi
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Radio flattens battery

Post by Rockstarsi » Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:20 pm

After a long search I have found that the parasitic drain on my battery (e53/02/3.0d) is coming from the radio. If I remove fuse 72  which disables it my battery doesn't depleat overnight. Any ideas as to why this may be?  Anyone else had a similar problem ?

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Re: Radio flattens battery

Post by Steamyrotter » Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:14 pm

Sounds like you may have a dodgy capacitor in there....

If its a nav version then the module can be sent off for refurbished / upgrade.
Not sure who tinkers with non nav stuff though??!

It could be that it's not shutting down the iBus??
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