Anyone else had a new battery then it's gone dead after a period of no use?
I bought the car with a dead battery, had it replaced, and the new battery is about a month old, maybe 2 at most. Been mostly driving to and from work which is about 4 miles each way, and parked up for 10 hours in between commute.
It's had one long trip out, about 100 miles or so, but otherwise does 8 miles a day Monday to Friday, sits outside on road for Saturday and Sunday and starts fine on Monday mornings.
Went on holiday for 7 days, not in my car so that stayed at home, came back and went in my car to move it and it wouldn't start, just kept making clicking noises, same noise I had when it wouldn't start on the old dead battery. Called AA out, they were out in minutes, and did a test and showed it had 8 amps charge, not enough to start it but said the battery was good, just needed a recharge so drove it about for an hour.
He said there must be something that's been drawing power, but what he didn't know.
I had the lights off, radio off and wipers off. Only thing that was on when I turned it off was the entertainment system, which stays on anyway you can't turn that off, the warning systems and the heater/air con control unit. These turn themselves off when I press the stop button.
Anyone else had this? Anyone know what might be drawing power? As he said for a new battery after 7 days shouldn't draining power?
I bought the car with a dead battery, had it replaced, and the new battery is about a month old, maybe 2 at most. Been mostly driving to and from work which is about 4 miles each way, and parked up for 10 hours in between commute.
It's had one long trip out, about 100 miles or so, but otherwise does 8 miles a day Monday to Friday, sits outside on road for Saturday and Sunday and starts fine on Monday mornings.
Went on holiday for 7 days, not in my car so that stayed at home, came back and went in my car to move it and it wouldn't start, just kept making clicking noises, same noise I had when it wouldn't start on the old dead battery. Called AA out, they were out in minutes, and did a test and showed it had 8 amps charge, not enough to start it but said the battery was good, just needed a recharge so drove it about for an hour.
He said there must be something that's been drawing power, but what he didn't know.
I had the lights off, radio off and wipers off. Only thing that was on when I turned it off was the entertainment system, which stays on anyway you can't turn that off, the warning systems and the heater/air con control unit. These turn themselves off when I press the stop button.
Anyone else had this? Anyone know what might be drawing power? As he said for a new battery after 7 days shouldn't draining power?