In message <73da2590.0310130828.69ad68d3@posting.google.com >
beelzebubba@hotmail.com (Spider) wrote:
> BTW, leaving the interior lights on all night does the battery in
> pretty well for the next morning. Just FYI.

It took more than that on my RS6! I left the interior light on at
around 8 one evening. The next day I drove it 20 feet out of the
garage, and proceeded to instal a phone kit. During this time I had
the doors open, listened to music playing on the PhatBox and then had
the phone on charge. I was then puzzled as to why the music cut out
when I accidentally knocked one of the switches on the electric seat.
Never mind - it came back again. A little while later I knocked the
seat switch once more. This time the sound didn't come back - the TV
screen wouldn't stay on etc. I still didn't twig, preferring to believe
that I had messed something up when I connected the phone kit (I had
had the radio/TV/navigation screen out of the centre console). It was
only when I prodded around with a multimeter that realisation gradually
dawned. Ah well, turning everything off (including the interior light
switch), and a couple of hours with the charger (intelligent, as you
say, but I didn't get the connections wrong) and I was able to start
the engine, and had a wonderful excuse to go out for a long drive!.

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Peter Bell - peter@bellfamily.org.uk