FIAT Scudo (2007 - ) - 2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery.

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Wed 21 May 2008 09:19
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - tinkerer
Can any one help ?

poor builders van I bought 3 years ago it has factory alarm fitted which kept going off and annoying everyone near my house including me so as a short term measure i cut the wire to the alarm horn it still whent off continually but was now silent, however it seems to be flattening the battery I bought a new one last winter cost £70.00 and it was fine for a bit, but I think that is now ruined as I have to remove battery leads every night to aviod constant alarm going off indicators flashing constantly etc.and discharging the battery every night?

if there is some way of disabling the alarm completely then it should not go off continually and thus flatten battery overnight. Once it is started in the morning it will be o.k. to start all day but overnight it go flat and will not turn over fast enough to fire up without a jump start in the morning I am resigned to purchasing another battery but I have got to resolve this discharging issue first any advice gratefully and desperately sought and appriciated

Thanks guys

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Edited by Dynamic Dave on 21/05/2008 at 11:14

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Wed 21 May 2008 13:57
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - Screwloose

Are you sure that's a factory alarm? Most of the Scudo/Dispatch/Expert vans had to have after-market alarms fitted even to get central locking.

Removing an alarm is a job for an autosparks - particularly on one of these.
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Wed 21 May 2008 16:18
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - tinkerer
Hi
I am not sure but I dont neccesarly want to remove it just fix this continuous going off issue? some body said that if you take batt leads off and hold them together for 5 secs
it resets cpu.( silver box on ofside inner wing) i think that all connectors seem to go into? I tried it anyway and it still happens so I am no wiser
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Wed 21 May 2008 16:46
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - Screwloose

Ahh; a "re-set." The twaddle-mongers favourite refrain.....
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Thu 22 May 2008 14:37
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - tinkerer
hi screwloose.

you think this advice is bull then, no wonder it did not do any thing . any how Ive bitten the bullet and contacted an auto sparks who is coming tomorrow for a look I will post the results in case it is any use to any others
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Thu 22 May 2008 15:16
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - Screwloose
you think this advice is bull then


Pretty much; I get sick and tired of hearing the phrase. Every brain-dead Saxo driver seems to think that erasing the learned values will give him an instant 50% power increase and make him irresistable to women...

Get your faulty alarm killed-off properly and then you may have a chance of stopping the drain; even with the sounder off, there will still be a small current usage.

Some alarm fitters fit the main alarm fuses on top of the column switches on these; but they don't all do it the same way.
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Sun 25 May 2008 15:26
2000 2.0td van - alarm is discharging the battery. - tinkerer
Had the guy round friday did a test and iformed me that there is no drain and reason it wont start in morning is following 1/ 2 glow plugs not working I took these out about a month ago and they were getting cherry red when operated but he said they were not efficient enough electrical resistance or something 2/ starter motor polling? and thus drawing way to much power from the battery under starting conditions which seems to make sense as once it is started in morning it will start o.k. all day. solution is new set of heater plugs and replacement starter he did however point out straight away that the dash board battery light is very dim when ignition is turned on will carrying out above repairs rectify this ?

Thank for your advice
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