03-12-15, 03:14 PM
FIXED IT! although we are now £420 lighter!
Took the car to an auto electrician who came very highly recommended by a fair few people.
He found a rotted loom in the back LH corner, which is where the windscreen washer pipe had popped off a couple of years ago, I did dry it, but I suspect not all of it. He replaced that. This could explain the act of reverse turning the engine off (shorting out?)
The Central Convenience Module had a fault on it and had caused some burning on some attached wires. This controls the electric windows, central locking and other bits and bobs, this was what was causing the big drain on the battery. He replaced that.
He found that the housing around fuse 7 was melted and associated wires were burnt too. replaced.
Apparently, an acceptable drain on a car battery is 0.5amps, he's got ours down to pretty much zero apparently.
SO, fingers crossed, it's all fixed. Just got to pay the Father in Law back now! :\
Took the car to an auto electrician who came very highly recommended by a fair few people.
He found a rotted loom in the back LH corner, which is where the windscreen washer pipe had popped off a couple of years ago, I did dry it, but I suspect not all of it. He replaced that. This could explain the act of reverse turning the engine off (shorting out?)
The Central Convenience Module had a fault on it and had caused some burning on some attached wires. This controls the electric windows, central locking and other bits and bobs, this was what was causing the big drain on the battery. He replaced that.
He found that the housing around fuse 7 was melted and associated wires were burnt too. replaced.
Apparently, an acceptable drain on a car battery is 0.5amps, he's got ours down to pretty much zero apparently.
SO, fingers crossed, it's all fixed. Just got to pay the Father in Law back now! :\
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys beer, and that helps!
