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Carman, thank you. I remember getting a £400 bill for a problem with a windscreen wiper on an S-Type, wiring issue, and that was 20 years ago. Steve the garage man said it should have been a lot more but he felt that was all he could charge, bless him! 20 years ago and other end of the country...

I intend to get to it Harry, as said. (Chucking it down at the moment so doing some inside jobs!)

Carman, yeah as i said earlier, the last auto-electrician i tried didn’t want to get involved in this. There are other auto-electricians out there i guess …. maybe i’ll try to find one willing to have a look. Long ago i remember a mate who was an electrician not wanting to mess with...

thanks Harry

Carman, thanks. As i say I haven’t been able to find a garage or auto-electrician who wants to know! Don’t blame ‘em really lol!

Ah JohnD, yeah re clamp meter, if it does what it looks like it does it would save a lot of messing about! Are the cheap ones any good? Prices seem to be £200 all the way down to £16 !

Thanks flameport, any idea what could draw that power pls?

Thanks JohnD

Thanks guys. Re opening the boot without power, it can be opened with the key. But the key is hard to turn so maybe not a good idea to use that method all the time, feels like it might wear or break something!

Thanks thomp1983. Just to recap, i want to disconnect the battery, say overnight. The battery is in the boot. The boot latch is powered so the boot can’t be securely closed without power. So i need a remote-control isolator. Which solves the boot-closing catch-22 problem. If next day i had to...

Amazon link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DHR8GHPF/?coliid=I3BLQM6QFCYNPN&colid=I1ODEFZ0WOSZ&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_ii If i’ve posred that right??

Meanwhile, best wishes for New Year! Also, can we re-visit the question at the start of the topic : can i click my isolator to “on”, jump in and start the engine? ChatGPT reckons no - it’d fry the isolator. Some bloke in Australia reviewing an isolator on Amazon reckons he’s starting his 6 litre...

Ah yeah been disconnecting neg terminal then connecting a cable from battery negative to the negative cable, in parallel with the multimeter. Then wait 20 minutes. Then disconnect the cable leaving the multimeter connected. So all the current goes through the multimeter. Have to use this “shunt”...

Old salt, johnd, thanks. Battery pretty new, tested ok recently by RAC. No not seen that RMsYoutube. Boot lid can’t be pushed all the way down by hand, short of say just under a centimetre so maybe not quite watertight? Yeah re warmth - is it possible to prioritise fuses to check? Some things...

I’ll bash on with that Harry, thanks

Sorry Harry, didn’t see the bit about the fuses, yeah tried lots of fuses as i say

Thanks Harry, i quite agree. But as i say, nobody seems to want to know. And that’s just for a diagnosis. Re. fixing the symptom, would the CCA fry the isolator? Ah also, we have another car, the Jag is not required for daily use.

Hi chaps. 2004 Jaguar XJ8. Something is drawing 4 amps at rest, so obvs battery is flat overnight. Got multimeter. Tried pulling a few fuses, alternator AC ripple test. Fault not found. Garages unenthusiastic. Last auto electrician ran away screaming. I use a Noco booster to start it. Workaround...

Thanks foxhole i’ll have a look. After Crimbo - cos as long as it’s still washing dishes I don’t want to mess about with it. I don’t want to have to take its place especially over the hols lol

Hi chaps. My Bosch dishwasher door used to open by pressing it, then it would spring open. It has now stopped doing that. I can get it open using the two red plastic things that came with it, and the actual wash still works. Any idea pls?