Help the battery on my vRS has gone flat, it has been parked for about 1 week and now the car will not open on the fob or anything other than the drivers door/ boot with the key. The battery is under 6 months old and has not given me any problems before. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the battery to drain.

Had a search on the forum but I am failing to see anything which appears to be related to my problem. I am presuming I have a power drain somewhere. Was trying to find out if there are any common causes so I could investigate them and try and sort it.

Got an amp fitted?

One of my mates had an older A4 and the boot lock used to do something weird and that drained the battery in a week (in an airport carpark).

Do all of your interior lights (thinking boot here) go off?

No amp fitted, might check the boot lock, as far as I know they all go off will check when I look at it tomorrow

Alternator going? Not charging properly?

corroded or broken leads from the alternator, or maybe a fuse blown in the box above the battery (the box which normally melts.....)

Couldn't determine if the boot light was going off so I disconnected it. Bulb for glovebox light was blown so has been removed as has the light from the ash tray as this was not on either. Jump started the car today and took it for a drive, started ok after stopping at dealers to pick some bits up, struggled a bit after stopping off to pick up the new intercooler. Will have another go tomorrow to see what happens, hopefully it will hold some charge and I can build it up. Will check the altenator and fuses when it is light again, hopefully get the new intercooler on tomorrow as well.