Ford Focus Diesel - Battery drain of 0.17 ampsArchived Message
Posted by Tony Sefton. on February 4, 2004, 6:47 pm
Chassis no:- god knows. engine no, same, ecu no not sure. And Car not in garage, BUT:- This car has got a battery drain of 0.17 amps, doors locked and left for a couple of hours and it is still draining, we have traced the drain, to a relay which autodata say is for electric mirrors, which it hasn't got, and interior lamp, which works ok, if we remove the relay the drain drops off and the interior lamp does not work, if we bridge the relay terminals 30 and 87 everything works ok and no drain. if we remove G.E.M.S module drain drops off, so we fitted a new module but the fault is still there, one main dealer say's that the module needs programming and another one say's that they fit them without programming . ??. OH and one dealer say's that fitting a silver calcium battery will cure it. ?? The car was no problem whilst it was used regularly but it now stands for a few day's at a time. Has anyone been there before, ?? I think that we have done one before but it was a long time ago and we cannot remember the outcome.