Battery drain on Transit
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Battery drain on Transit
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
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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?????
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?????
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Originally Posted by fraser9764
pull each fuse in turn, stick an ammeter in the place of each fuse, and see which circuit is pulling the current.
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Originally Posted by fraser9764
pull each fuse in turn, stick an ammeter in the place of each fuse, and see which circuit is pulling the current.
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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.
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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
Try a ford battery me old Pal
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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.
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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.
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Re: Battery drain on Transit
Originally Posted by TIFF
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?????
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?????
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
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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.
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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.
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.
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