How much should my Passat draw on its battery when parked? [Toronto Globe and Mail (Ontario, Canada)]
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How much should my Passat draw on its battery when parked? I have a VW Passat here in England, which I would guess never really gets fully charged due to low mileage. The battery voltage on no load is about 12.2, which is definitely at the bottom end of the charge state (25 per cent). My question is how much current would you expect a car to take from the battery when it is parked and the engine not running? My Passat takes about 40 milliamps. 0.04 amperes for 168 hours (1 week) is 6.7 ampere hours, so my 25-per-cent charged battery with only 15 ampere hours to go at would be completely drained in a couple of weeks. This always happens when we are away on holiday. With kind regards, Chris W. Gone are the days when vehicles came with wind-up windows and eight-track decks, and an optional built-in clock was considered a luxury item. Now our vehicles are laden with electronics that have significant Keep Alive Memory (KAM) draw on a static battery. A 40-milliamp parasitic draw is with
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