Another battery issue

Advice needed again please.

Posted in July asking for advice on a non starter and thanks to all who replied I came down to putting a new battery on and sorting the problem without going down the alternator route.

New battery been in for 8 weeks or so without any problems until today.
Had a shoulder op last week so not allowed to drive and motor has been parked up and untouched for 8 days. Got in this morning and NOTHING, not even interior lights. Put a meter on the battery and it read 2.1v, managed to get her started on a jump and checked alternator again. It is returning 14.3v at 2,000 revs so assume ok. Been on charge now for 5 hours and not switched to trickle yet.

Any ideas please as to why it dropped so low with no use, does it sound like I have a duff battery ?

remove the receiver aerial

Mad hat Man,

Where is it, What does it do, Why would it have done what you think, and do I not need it,

Thanks

Dezx4x4 said:

Mad hat Man,

Where is it, off side rear quarter panel. instructions are on this site.
What does it do, receives radio signals - from blipper, wifi units, cctv cameras and loads of other ****.
Why would it have done what you think, and cos it picks up signals from non rover devices, wakes up yo motor and drains yo battery
do I not need it, no it just means yu need to be closer to the motor to operate the blipper

Thanks

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or you could change the BECM????

Mad hat man,

Thank you again but your link sent me to ebay, I think I know what you are referring to but can you post me a link that you say is there just to confirm my end

Cheers

it wasnt my link = its an autoadvert

yu might have to search on battery drain = yu will get loads like this = http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f10/p38-remote-receiver-problems-53360.html

Dezx4x4 said:

Mad hat man,

Thank you again but your link sent me to ebay, I think I know what you are referring to but can you post me a link that you say is there just to confirm my end

Cheers

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You don't need a link to anywhere, you're on LandyZone - you're here!

Open up the top of the offside of your boot space
- two plugs and a screw hidden by the rear seat back
Find the RF receiver, it's the black box with the blue wire that goes to the window, the RF aerial is built into the window
disconnect this blue wire and you radically reduce the efficiency of the RF receiver. This means that you'll have to be closer to the car before your remote will work but it shouldn't pick up all of the other spurious signals floating around that are wakening your car up and flattening your battery - hopefully!!!

Gentlemen,

Thank you again to both of you for your help, will get this done and monitor my battery from here on,

Hopefully this was the problem

Cheers

and if yu are laying it up for any time, get yoself a solar panel charger.

dogsbody said:

You don't need a link to anywhere, you're on LandyZone - you're here!

Open up the top of the offside of your boot space
- two plugs and a screw hidden by the rear seat back
Find the RF receiver, it's the black box with the blue wire that goes to the window, the RF aerial is built into the window
disconnect this blue wire and you radically reduce the efficiency of the RF receiver. This means that you'll have to be closer to the car before your remote will work but it shouldn't pick up all of the other spurious signals floating around that are wakening your car up and flattening your battery - hopefully!!!

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I might need to do this, but would i lose Radio Fucoshima, i really want to continue to monitor the situation there, i'm a veteran of the Chernobil incident you know, twitch twitch.

myfirstl322 said:

I might need to do this, but would i lose Radio Fucoshima, i really want to continue to monitor the situation there, i'm a veteran of the Chernobil incident you know, twitch twitch.

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Yes, I can guarantee that if you disconnect your antennae in your L322 you will not be able to receive Radio Auchtermuchty.

dogsbody said:

Yes, I can guarantee that if you disconnect your antennae in your L322 you will not be able to receive Radio Auchtermuchty.

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Darn, i really enjoyed the outside agricultural broadcasts about old horse rollers being a fine example of pre-welding techniques...

Chaps he is talking L322 and not P38......

Common battery drain on the L322 is the alternator diode pack, the front wipers not parking correctly, or the heater blower final stage resistor

Yep
L322 doesn't suffer with the same issue as the p38

The Mad Hat Man said:

it wasnt my link = its an autoadvert

yu might have to search on battery drain = yu will get loads like this = http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f10/p38-remote-receiver-problems-53360.html

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It's an L322 so none of your comments are relevant Mad.

So I gather.

Just trying to hold the fort till yu n Wammbo turned up

The Mad Hat Man said:

So I gather.

Just trying to hold the fort till yu n Wammbo turned up

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You'd have been better off holding your privates, it would have been as much use

****!

Did I leave the web cam on again?

Saint V8,

With regards your last post on my thread about Alternator Diode Pack, and a similar post from another who left his L322 for a week and drained the battery also I wonder if you have any thoughts on this.
Since I bought the car I have the battery light flickering when she is on tick over, not fully on just a flicker, which goes off when you add revs.
Do you think that this may have something to do with my battery drain,

Thanks

Dezx4x4 said:

Since I bought the car I have the battery light flickering when she is on tick over, not fully on just a flicker, which goes off when you add revs.
Do you think that this may have something to do with my battery drain,

Thanks

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Erm, just a bit