'01 xc 70.
After about 6 hours of sitting yesterday it was too flat to crank the car ( but did light up the dash etc ) and I have some really random thoughts, please tell me which ones are utter BS !
Recently i replaced the blower motor resistor, with a cheap after market one. Since then I have twice walked outside and found the blower motor running. Googling suggests that this is a feature and shouldn't flatten the battery !
I noticed that one of the back windows was not all the way up !
When I go to start the car it says alarm system service required, I have been studiously ignoring this. Is it possible to simply pull a fuse and have no alarm ?
I set the clock for the first time about two days previously, surely this is not relevant.
I disconnected the + terminal overnight so that it would start this morning, when I reconnected there was a fairly good contact spark and a whirring noise from somewhere up front, I wasn't paying much attention. That indicated to me that something somewhat power hungry was on.
Any ideas where to start with this.
I am quite happy to "simplify" the car, if there are powered systems that aren't strictly necessary ( funny clicking from back wiper, headlight wipers making noises ) I have no issues unplugging stuff and taking out relays / fuses.
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