Hey after leaving my car for 4 days the battery goes flat it's a new battery the alternator chargers at 14 volts and the battery draw is 0.4 amps and ideas?

Cheers felix

not left anything on, could be a faulty battery or check the levels in the battery cells

Hey after leaving my car for 4 days the battery goes flat it's a new battery the alternator chargers at 14 volts and the battery draw is 0.4 amps and ideas?

Cheers felix

Get it to a garage to place a load onto battery (even new ones can be duff), and check-out the amperage output of alternator.

Edited 7 January, 201115 yr by giandougl

that happened to me 2 weeks ago. First it lasted a few days, then a couple, then on, then 8 hours!! lol

turned out to be a knackered battery

Edited 7 January, 201115 yr by kotlewski69

0.4 amps is way to high, something is draining that.

Best way to figure that out is monitor the draw and pull fuses, see if it drops out with specific fuse removed, this will tell you what circuit it it on.

Edited 7 January, 201115 yr by Tech1e

0.2 is the norm isn't it?

Just a shot in the dark but have you got any LEDs in the car at all?

Some don't entirely go out even when off.

My parcel shelf has an LED strip light which glows dimly all the time whether on or off.

I have disconnected it for now but it was causing the alarm to sound when the voltage drop was sensed.

does the radio go off when you take out the key ??? probably is that (or bad wiring on an amp)

I've had led side lights for ages now and my amp in for well over a year so don't thing it will b anything like that

Just looked through google to another post on this site and it was saying about the alternator signal wire on the gearbox, I hav a volt meter and now and again it will read 8 volts once started I though it was a dodge gauge but maybe this is where I should start looking my reverse have stopped working aswell, and a little while back I broke down with the starter motor wire snapped so the recovery guy was in that area what u think?

0.2 is the norm isn't it?

0.2 is borderline, less than 0.1 is ideal and normal.