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BobsYourUncle
Nomad
Aug 22, 2019

Batteries drained to dead, what is nominal drain on truck?

18 days into a 3 week holiday, things were mostly well until this morning, sigh, here we go again.... Parked the truck at the campsite day before yesterday afternoon. Didn't run it yesterday. Went ...
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Harvey51
Explorer
Aug 30, 2019
Our 2018 Highlander SUV drew 500 mA when we brought it home in winter. Toyota mechanic said that was normal. Then I discovered that turning the headlights off instead of auto reduced it to 250. In the spring it went down to 100 mA. Any ideas why so much, other than Toyota has too many engineers working on features that use electricity? I put a battery post disconnect on it in case it goes high again in winter.

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