Subject: Re: What did you do to your VW today? Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:59 pm
luckily home from work before 7pm tonight - so feliz was treated to a wash and polish . belatedly took some photos to support the post on the cold water tap replacement
Subject: Re: What did you do to your VW today? Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:40 am
Had the battery on trickle charge all weekend.
As the radio I have fitted needs a permanent live and the radio is wired into the starter battery, it drained it after three weeks.
I guess I should rewire the radio into the leisure battery; what's the nearest source on the dash from which I can then take a positive live, please?
Tallulah
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Subject: Re: What did you do to your VW today? Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:54 am
That's not good. The permanent live normally just means it can be switched on without the ignition and/or the settings are kept in the memory which takes the tiniest of tiny charge to maintain. If it drained in 3 weeks I would suggest there is something else going on.
Some radios have a 'demo mode' that needs to be deactivated as it draws power while active. Others, like ours, have a 'standby' mode as well as being switched fully off, and again they will draw a charge while in standby. I have adjusted the settings so that if the unit is in standby for 3 hours it will automatically turn itself off.
Subject: Re: What did you do to your VW today? Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:03 pm
TimV wrote:
Bumble wrote:
Had the battery on trickle charge all weekend.
As the radio I have fitted needs a permanent live and the radio is wired into the starter battery, it drained it after three weeks.
I guess I should rewire the radio into the leisure battery; what's the nearest source on the dash from which I can then take a positive live, please?
Fuse box on near side B pillar.
Thanks Tim, that's where there are four fuses, yes?
Tallulah wrote:
That's not good. The permanent live normally just means it can be switched on without the ignition and/or the settings are kept in the memory which takes the tiniest of tiny charge to maintain. If it drained in 3 weeks I would suggest there is something else going on.
Some radios have a 'demo mode' that needs to be deactivated as it draws power while active. Others, like ours, have a 'standby' mode as well as being switched fully off, and again they will draw a charge while in standby. I have adjusted the settings so that if the unit is in standby for 3 hours it will automatically turn itself off.
It may be longer than three weeks (how long ago was the sleepover?) No demo mode as far as I'm aware.
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Subject: Re: What did you do to your VW today? Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:09 pm
Yes where the leisure battery power is distributed. If you're clever you can feed a wire up the B pillar, behind the headlining and down the windscreen pillar. It takes patience, but makes for a neater job.
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