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hi Guys, I have a 5.7 WH statesman that I rarely drive. Everytime I get in to go for a drive the Battery is flat and needs to be charged. I normally drive it once a week to keep the battery charged. I have seen Holden about this and they say that it is due to the electronics in the car running the battery down, ie, security and all that crap. Anyways onto my problem, I have been a bit slack and havent driven it for 3 weeks, now the battery is DEAD flat and I cant unlock the car. Putting the key in the door lock and turing does nothing.
So my question is.. How can I get into this thing??
I have tried climbing under the car to hook up a battery charger, no luck their either.
Any ideas????
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Can't help you get in, but you should fit a float charger that keeps the battery's condition optimal if it is left for a duration. It also sound like you're up for a new battery anyway. I'd say you've killed the old one. It's amazing that this happens now |
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What about this for an idea... I crawl under the car and hook up either a battery charger or jumper leads, Negative to the body somewhere, then locate the positive on the starter motor and hook the positive in there. Hopefully this should give me enough
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A float charger is basically a battery charger that cuts in and out and keeps the battery at full charge. What you are proposing should work, but leave it for a while so it charges the battery a bit. BUT - check with someone that understands the electrics |
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OK, the car is open. It turns out that if you crawl under the car and put your arms up near the bonnet catch you can grab the bonnet release cable, give this a good hard tug and the bonnet opens.
But that still doesnt solve the problem of the battery go
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What I am trying to say is that your boot light or glovebox light switch may be out of adjustment & leaving the light going all the time. These lights may not go through your cars electronics therefore may not be switched off by the BCM when the car is pa |
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Ok, this week, I will remove all the globes that are not required. ie the boot and glove box and see what happens. My dad has a 100 series Lancruise that does the same thing, he said that the Toyota dudes rekon that it is just all the electronics runnin
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I would be looking at a more powerful battery with higher cc output for the next replacment on top of what ever else you try. This may sound strange but I knew a couple of old timers who used to sit their batteries on a thin layer of wood in the battery t
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Hi guys,
We have an update, but we are still not at the bottom of this yet, but we are getting closer.
I got my brother round who is an Electrician, but not an Auto Elec, only the house kind, but he has all the equipment.
We hooked up his amp met
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BCM is body controll module, has to do with security.
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Mate of mine had a similar problem he ended up buying a optima yellow top it's a deep cycle/starting battery so can recharge it few thousnad times before it's rooted he also got a battery charge that does both normal charging and has a secound switch on i
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Thanks for all the help guys. You wouldnt think that the security system would drain the battery this much, but obviously it does. Looks like I will have to leave my trickle charger permanently on the battery when it isnt being driven. But for a 60k ca
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It's drawing 1/2 an amp per hour, 12 hours that's 6 amps, a week is 168 hours, that's 84 amps, 2 weeks that's 168 amps. More than enough drop to cause hassles.
Also voltage would be dropping.
I would suggest that's probably the problem, a deep cycle ba
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Hi Guys.
1/2 amp is way too much current draw with everything switched off.
If got a VX Calais, which has very similar electrics to the WH & my rested current draw is less than 50 mA. I can leave my cars for many weeks with no problems.
The BCM h |
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Reminds me of a report I saw of a holden with continuing flat battery problems, the funny thing was he parked it on a sloped driveway, if he drove in forwards the battery was ok.If he refered in the battery would go flat. turned put he had fitted horn and
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This may sound strange but I knew a couple of old timers who used to sit their batteries on
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Thanks for all the input guys. But wouldnt a light being left on, ie glovebox or boot draw more than 0.5amp?? A light left on like that should flatten the battery overnight, but this problem takes a week.
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a boot/nterior light is around 5-6w
p=vi
so
p/v=i
6/12 = 0.5amps
DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE
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