[tcb] Re: New radio= dead battery?
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
OK Sarah; have not looked at the other responses yet, but here is probably the
problem. These "new" radios are always pulling just a bit of power to keep the
programming in the radio intact. i.e., the internal settings for stations that
you pre-select, the clock and etc. All the new cars have them and they work
and do not drain the battery. The juice they should be pulling should not
drain the battery. HOWEVER, I have lost count of the number of VW owners I
have encountered that put one of these new radios in their VWs and then
encounter after a few days a dead battery. It happened to me. Could not
figure out why the battery kept going dead after 4-5 days of non-driving. Now
when a VW owner tells me of their story my answer is the same. The radio is
pulling too much juice from your battery to maintain it's settings and is
draining the battery. It's the radio's fault, not your car or battery.
Cure: Only one I have found is to wire your radio through the ignition switch
so that it is only getting any power at all when the switch is turned on.
Problem with this is that every time you turn off the switch and kill all power
to the radio you lose all your settings on your radio that you have
preprogrammed. Only other solution is to take your radio back to your supplier
and complain and see if they have an answer. The radio is drawing too
*(%^&(%*%*(^& power when it is sitting there doing nothing.
--- On Wed, 5/30/12, photofreakk@xxxxxxxxx <photofreakk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: photofreakk@xxxxxxxxx <photofreakk@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] New radio= dead battery?
To: "Vanagon Mailing List" <vanagon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 10:48 AM
Hey All,
I have a question: Why is my new radio always "lit up" even when turned off
and ignition is off also? And after 2wks (from installation of radio), now my
battery is dead, even though I started it several times including for 10minutes
the day it "died"?
So if the radio maybe drained my battery-Why does my radio still work and have
power, even this morning?!?
I am a newbie and looking @ my Bentley guide, but why doesn't it show 1985
wiring? Do I just look at the 1983 wiring on 97.20/97.21?? (I obviously didn't
do the install - I paid the previous owner to do it and he had done several but
is on the road to Grandcanyon as we speak to ask him)
It is a 1985 Westy vanagon GL 1.9
Thanks,
Sarah in Tx
1985 Westy vanagon GL 1.9 "Lennon"
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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