V8 Vantage Battery drain - help.needed

[Herbs]

Evening all.

My battery died last week after 6 weeks of non use and i had the joy of fitting a new battery with the car dead.

All worked good but fast forward 4 days with no driving and the car is completely dead again on the 7th floor of my work car park.

When I say dead i mean dead as in the battery might as well not be connected.

I've read that the tracker can be at fault but would that drain a new battery so completely that quick?

I'm a couple of hours away from the nearest dealer so appealing to the knowledgeable gents onheee to get me out of a pickle.

[Herbs]

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[davek_964]

I think the first thing would be a multimeter to measure the drain and then pull fuses to see which circuit is taking all the current.

[SL500UK]

Sounds like it might be the same problem that I had. A 12 month old battery kept going flat. Remedy was to change the battery again and disable the tracker (dealer job). No issues since.

[bomberh]

Yep had similar issue, battery drain after a day of full charge. Dealer looked at it and found the old tracker was drawing all the power. Had the tracker replaced with nice new one. Battery also had to be changed as it was past its sell by date... not bad for an original battery (10 years!) and no issues since.

[Herbs]

Thanks all,

I've already fitted a brand new battery so can rule that out. Tracker looks the next likely - any idea what i can expect to pay to get it deactivated?

[johnnyBv8]

Herbs said:

Thanks all,

I've already fitted a brand new battery so can rule that out. Tracker looks the next likely - any idea what i can expect to pay to get it deactivated?

Mine did it free of charge.