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Originally Posted by 70Sixter
Funf Dreisig,
As you know by now, I could not. I attached my battery charger to the engine compartment connection point (under red plastic cover). Not jumper cables, but same principle. Charger maxed out at 7-8 amps and then cut out.
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7-8 Amps is a huge draw. You only need to look at the gauge of wires to see the kind of load they are expected to handle. And there are only handful of wires in an X5'w wiring loom that can handle 7-8 amps sustained load. It's hard to imagine that much of a sustained load in a vehicle other than the starter motor or an electrical short.
Thanks for the reminder --- Don't apply jumpers to a freaked out X5. Battery chargers are smart enough to cut out when they get over loaded. But a jumpered battery (the donor, not the recipient) is NOT!
Thanks - Funf Dreisig