Unknown Battery Draw Drains Battery

6.0

fairly significant
Typical Repair Cost:
$150
Average Mileage:
122,200 miles
Total Complaints:
2 complaints

Most Common Solutions:

  1. not sure (2 reports)
2008 Saturn Vue electrical problems

electrical problem

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2008 Saturn Vue Owner Comments

problem #2

Jan 012018

Vue RX 3.6L

  • Automatic transmission
  • 170,877 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Like another owners. 60A fuse and bcm fuse in the inner panel.(air cond. 0.2A airbag 0.2A 0.15A Radio etc) total 0.8A drain. My battery lasted only 2 days.(temperature -21C)

- Sorin D., Montreal, QC, Canada

problem #1

Nov 252014

Vue XR V6

  • Automatic transmission
  • 73,500 miles

I bought this car used for my wife, it had about 60,000 miles on it. Last month (November 25th, 2014) it needed a jump to start, I chalked it up to the weather being very cold for the first time. But then I realized that every time the car sat unused for more than ten hours, the battery was dead. If it sat more than 24 hours, it was so dead that only a V8 could jump it.

I took it to my mechanic who traced the draw on the battery to a 60 amp fuse, which leads to a whole nest of wires. Pulling this fuse eliminated the draw, but a lot of other things ran on it. I then opened the inner fuse box, near the floor inside the cabin on the passenger side. there I pulled a 15 amp fuse labeled BCM, or body control module. This dropped the draw on the battery from 4.2 amps to about 0.4 amps.

I do not know if I need a new BCM or what, but the car starts, drives, and seems to function well enough without this fuse.

- kl2, Peterborough, NH, US

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