Anybody got ideas as to what might be draining my battery?

[Shubz8p]

Battery has been draining very quickly, 8 hours is enough to kill it on full charge.

First thing I did when the car went flat in the morning 3 days in a row was fit a new battery

I had an auto electrician come down. He ran a scan on vcds and then tested the fuses in the engine bay and couldn't find one that was drawing. The vcds scan found a short circuit in the alarm siren (which doesn’t work understandably), glowplugs (have been replaced now, no change) and the dial switch for the headlights (specifically, the led’s that illuminate the icons for each setting are very dim/flicker). Finally, a short circuit in the rear right speaker.

The autoelectrician suggested I just replace everything thats shorting, and maybe I’m just ignorant, but I have a feeling that it just isn’t it.

What do you guys think?

autoelectrician’s VCDS scan attached

Log-AUDI A3 2009 1.9TDI RJ09XYN-WAUZZZ8PXAA019845-200800km-124771mi.txt

[Magnet]

Hello Siyab,

You have a drain of around 8amps - can’t really call it parasitic!

I would think that your auto electrician’s advice of sorting out the shorts is sound.

I would also disconnect the alternator plug, since current loss through this is a possibility if a diode has gone. 
Kind regards,

Gareth.

 

[Shubz8p]

No I fully agree I need to sort out the shorts and I plan to, but I was unsure as to whether its the parts themselves that are shorting or the wiring going into them

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression that the wires for different components eventually join together which could cause problems with the other components which would then mean, the location of the short would be quite vague?