The bloody battery in the transit keeps draining over 4 days.......to nothing.

Now i have checked that everything is off and that no internal lights are staying on but it still happens

ALSO

It can go for 4 days and start.....then i will give it a 5 minute drive to makle sure it is ok. The next day go to start it and nothing.

It does this with the 3 different batteries i have so i wouldnt say it is the battery.

Any ideas?????

 

pull each fuse in turn, stick an ammeter in the place of each fuse, and see which circuit is pulling the current.

 

Sounds like a plan......Cheers

 

The alternator charging circuit working correctly? I would check that too

 

what year Tiff

 

just do it streight across the neg side of the battery.see what sort od a drain there is there aloud anything up to about 0.04A drain on a tranny battery. as said what year? it would take that long if its not charging too and stereo etc is draining it over time. check what amps is going back into the battery as well as volts as ive had a few that are charging at over 13v but under 1A going back in

 

It's very very very rare you ever get a new shape Transit develop a drain. It's usually alternators and starters on the front wheel drive ones. Some used to blow the fuseable link in the earth wire but that would cut power of completely. Others just develop fucked batteries.

 

is it a new one??

 

It is a Y plate Transit...2000

 

just check charging first then go through the battery drain tests its easy enough

 

 

Mark what battery you been puttin on mate as my mk6 was doing this with me not putting a ford one on. It came to a piont where my heater plug light was flashing and the van had no boost it took 3 weeks of in and out ford and after a new ecu, injector loom and countless man hrs to sort it (even though i could just turn the van off and restart it would cure it for a while) but its an 05 van and thought fuck em i want it right. Finally it got pinpointed to my dodgy non ford batt they put a new ford battery on and its been bob on ever since, if only they had done that to start with it would of saved them 2k in parts ........ man you gotta love warranty

Try a ford battery me old Pal

 

honestly thats madness!!! remember batteries have a shelf life aswel, may of been on the shelf for yeeeears and charged up

 

HMMMMMM....

It is a motorfactor battery on it.....

Will try a Ford one then lads

CHEERS

 

A battery is just that an accumulator to store engergy, it does not matter what the label says, ford or non ford, incidentally ford DON'T make batteries, they supply them made by others, but with a different label.
A vehicle does not have any way of knowing what label is on the battery, most likely in the case above FORD found the fault when they by chance were doing some work and fitting a new battery, but if this were the case then why would all DIFFERENT battery people be in business ?
You have one of two things happening, either a constant drain, or a dodgy alternator with leaky diodes.
Try disconnecting the alternator to see if it is ok then if nt ry the drain idea.
tabetha

 

My money is on the alternator diodes, common problem.

 

Yes, your transit is trying to commit suicide as its is embarrassed that its owner drives around in a shite yellow SKODA

Sell the shite yellow eyesore or get it repainted black and I bet you 50p and a pound of grapes that the Transit sorts itself

 

where is the fuseable link in the earth wire

 

It's part of the earth cable

google image search 'transit fusible earth'

Where the black plastic goes around it on the body end of the cable, the fusible link is behind the plastic, you have to replace the cable.