John L
A2OC Donor
I have been having an issue for quite some time now with the car running out of battery if it is left for more than a week or so.
Removing fuses 36, 42 and 39 (central locking, other central locking and right hand doors) before parking seems to resolve the issue.
Sometimes there is a slightly odd noise to the right hand door looks when locking or locking (kind of delayed response but a bit louder than the left hand side).
The car is a European spec 1.2tdi with aircon and original hifi. The hifi has a blaupunkt bluetooth adaptor attached but this seems irrelevant given that its fuse was not removed.
The car also has Osram light@day fog/daytime running LED lights fitted and interior led bulbs from hypercolor (the German supplier of A2 interior light kits).
One of the map reading lamp LED bulbs was at one stage faulty with a break/crack in the solder to one pole. I resoldered it and have had no issues since. I noticed then, even though not lit, it was very warm (the switch to it was on).
None of the other lights have been warm when I have checked.
The problem I guess began after the led lights were fitted (but these do not light when the car is locked and so should presumably not be drawing so much current).
I have experienced an odd issue with the Osram lights. This is that when the car is plugged into a mains charger the Osram lights blink. I have no idea how they are wired but think I found out today. There is a red cable that is bolted in to the floor in the electronics bay under the drivers floor. As removing fuses before did not seem to disable the Osram lights from flashing I guess they must take their power from here. This could be to overcome the issue of Ecomode disabling the DRL's as it shuts down the engine.
Please advise a better solution if you have any ideas so that I can try to wire the lights in a better way.
The DRL blinking does not occur when a booster battery is connected or at al during normal operation.
The CCU is made by Temic and has the part number: 8Z0 959 433 M Zentrale Komfortelektronik.
Does anyone know if this version is prone to the same types of problems as the Q version?
Is there anyone on the forum with experience with these units?
Would anyone like to guess as to a cause of my problems or even better a potential solution?
Many thanks!
John
Removing fuses 36, 42 and 39 (central locking, other central locking and right hand doors) before parking seems to resolve the issue.
Sometimes there is a slightly odd noise to the right hand door looks when locking or locking (kind of delayed response but a bit louder than the left hand side).
The car is a European spec 1.2tdi with aircon and original hifi. The hifi has a blaupunkt bluetooth adaptor attached but this seems irrelevant given that its fuse was not removed.
The car also has Osram light@day fog/daytime running LED lights fitted and interior led bulbs from hypercolor (the German supplier of A2 interior light kits).
One of the map reading lamp LED bulbs was at one stage faulty with a break/crack in the solder to one pole. I resoldered it and have had no issues since. I noticed then, even though not lit, it was very warm (the switch to it was on).
None of the other lights have been warm when I have checked.
The problem I guess began after the led lights were fitted (but these do not light when the car is locked and so should presumably not be drawing so much current).
I have experienced an odd issue with the Osram lights. This is that when the car is plugged into a mains charger the Osram lights blink. I have no idea how they are wired but think I found out today. There is a red cable that is bolted in to the floor in the electronics bay under the drivers floor. As removing fuses before did not seem to disable the Osram lights from flashing I guess they must take their power from here. This could be to overcome the issue of Ecomode disabling the DRL's as it shuts down the engine.
Please advise a better solution if you have any ideas so that I can try to wire the lights in a better way.
The DRL blinking does not occur when a booster battery is connected or at al during normal operation.
The CCU is made by Temic and has the part number: 8Z0 959 433 M Zentrale Komfortelektronik.
Does anyone know if this version is prone to the same types of problems as the Q version?
Is there anyone on the forum with experience with these units?
Would anyone like to guess as to a cause of my problems or even better a potential solution?
Many thanks!
John