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Originally Posted by digitron
I have this major situation with my BMW X5 2001. Almost getting sick & tired now!
I left my car parked overnight and through the next day. I tried to start the car in the evening and only got clicking noise. Obviously the battery seemed to be too weak to start the car.
Now I had it jumped with a lot of pain and at last started!
This is a brand new battery from Auto Zone, hardly a month old. I got the 850 CCA battery as per there manual.
Well another thing to note is the weather here in Chicago was very very cold last night. I am not sure if this caused the problem or some electrial system of mine draining the battery.
I only have a radar detector plugged in.
The alternator seems ok, after a few minutes of starting, I am able to start the car back on.
I am thinking of disabling the alarm system to see if this is draining the battery.
Any body have any other suggestion for this.
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I'm having the same problem with my 2002 with 71K miles on it and I'm in the process of troubleshooting the problem. I just replaced the battery with an Autozone battery two weeks ago. Is the orange light on the shift lever base lit constantly? It should go out after 16 minutes when the car goes to "sleep". If it's staying on constantly, then your car is not going to sleep and there is a module or circuit that is pulling current and not letting the car go to sleep. That's the problem and it needs to be diagnosed/fixed or you'll be feeding new batteries into your Bimmer every couple of months.
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