Hi, hope somebody can help on this one. My 01 Ducato was left sitting up for the last two weeks. When I went to start it yesterday, it would not start and I had to jump it to get it going. There is a new battery fitted so did not think that it would drain that quickly. I have found that there is not much space for getting the jump leads in to the battery!
Only thing that I can think of is that the cigarette lighter, radio and reversing camera screen seem to be permanently live; i.e. radio has to be turned off after switching off key, camera screen is always on standby and cig. lighter will work without key. Would the combination of the three of these things be enough to drain the battery?
There is an isolator switch/key on the battery which I have now removed until I need to start the van again which I hope will keep the battery from draining. I presume it is possible and not a major job to change the three of these to work with the key only?
Thanks in advance.
Only thing that I can think of is that the cigarette lighter, radio and reversing camera screen seem to be permanently live; i.e. radio has to be turned off after switching off key, camera screen is always on standby and cig. lighter will work without key. Would the combination of the three of these things be enough to drain the battery?
There is an isolator switch/key on the battery which I have now removed until I need to start the van again which I hope will keep the battery from draining. I presume it is possible and not a major job to change the three of these to work with the key only?
Thanks in advance.