Hi There,
My girlfriend owns a TD4 (commercial van version), which she bought second hand couple of months ago and she's really happy with it as she can put the dogs in and go off-road with them. (She's a vet)
About three weeks ago, we went for a drive of 45 mins, parked the car and went for a walk of about an hour, came back and flat battery. Assumed we'd left a light on got a jump start.
ECU light was on and the guy who jump started us turned out to be a LR dealer and said that it might need resetting due to the flat battery.
Took it to Halfords who said the battery was fine and was charging ok. Did notice the fan come on in the car park for no reason. (Very cold weather and we'd only driven for about 10 minutes.)
Got home fine and next morning, flat battery again. RAC comes out, jump starts it and looks at the codes. He said most of them were caused by the flat battery. Resets them and disconnects the engine cooler fan fuse and says that we should take it to an electrical specialist.
Next morning, dead battery again. We could hear some sort of relay kicking in and it sounded like it was coming from underneath the gear box.
Anyways, I put the car on a trickle charger and leave it for 24 hours. Car starts running OK.
Took it to a garage and they couldn't find anything wrong that would cause the battery to run flat.
Called out a mobile electrical specialist who spent an hour trying to figure it all out and couldn't find anything wrong. Both mechanics said the battery is the original one from 2004 and the green ball had disappeared and suggested that we change the battery.
Changed the battery by a garage today and short while later, the fan kicks in again. If I turn the ignition on/off, it stops the fan. It's now happened twice in the past couple of hours and I fear it's going to run the battery down again overnight.
I'm not the most technical person when it comes to cars (i.e. I barely know where the engine is located) but any suggestions would be appreciated. The electrician who had looked it couple of weeks ago offered to come out and test it all over again free of charge if a new battery didn't fix it. He's very kindly coming out tonight to have a look.
Last time, he cleared out the following codes from the computer:
- P1605
- P1844
- C1151
- C1154
- C1148
- C1149
My girlfriend owns a TD4 (commercial van version), which she bought second hand couple of months ago and she's really happy with it as she can put the dogs in and go off-road with them. (She's a vet)
About three weeks ago, we went for a drive of 45 mins, parked the car and went for a walk of about an hour, came back and flat battery. Assumed we'd left a light on got a jump start.
ECU light was on and the guy who jump started us turned out to be a LR dealer and said that it might need resetting due to the flat battery.
Took it to Halfords who said the battery was fine and was charging ok. Did notice the fan come on in the car park for no reason. (Very cold weather and we'd only driven for about 10 minutes.)
Got home fine and next morning, flat battery again. RAC comes out, jump starts it and looks at the codes. He said most of them were caused by the flat battery. Resets them and disconnects the engine cooler fan fuse and says that we should take it to an electrical specialist.
Next morning, dead battery again. We could hear some sort of relay kicking in and it sounded like it was coming from underneath the gear box.
Anyways, I put the car on a trickle charger and leave it for 24 hours. Car starts running OK.
Took it to a garage and they couldn't find anything wrong that would cause the battery to run flat.
Called out a mobile electrical specialist who spent an hour trying to figure it all out and couldn't find anything wrong. Both mechanics said the battery is the original one from 2004 and the green ball had disappeared and suggested that we change the battery.
Changed the battery by a garage today and short while later, the fan kicks in again. If I turn the ignition on/off, it stops the fan. It's now happened twice in the past couple of hours and I fear it's going to run the battery down again overnight.
I'm not the most technical person when it comes to cars (i.e. I barely know where the engine is located) but any suggestions would be appreciated. The electrician who had looked it couple of weeks ago offered to come out and test it all over again free of charge if a new battery didn't fix it. He's very kindly coming out tonight to have a look.
Last time, he cleared out the following codes from the computer:
- P1605
- P1844
- C1151
- C1154
- C1148
- C1149