X-5 Battery Drain

[msammy]

Steve, OK, I have good news, the car is going to sleep after all. I followed your instructions and connected my Fluke 83 to the negative battery cable as you described. I was a bit surprised to see 4.65Amp battery draw with the rear hatch open (wow!). I shut the hatch and it dropped to 3.85A, waited for the interior lights to go out, then observed 848mA draw (still too high). I waited 16 minutes, and sure enough, just 27mA as she went to "sleep" - ZZZZ. Well under the 50mA guideline. Surprisingly, the orange led on the shifter was still proudly glowing orange even when sleeping. My conclusion is: the older X5 shifter led's stay on when sleeping, my 2007's go out after the 16 minute sleep time. Thanks for all of your help Steve, I now know my X5 is fine and the new battery will last for years and I'm not slowly draining as I suspected. Now I'm off to the dealer for reprogamming to get the DSC, Antilock & Brake lights to go out (recalibrate Antilock, etc). Thanks again Steve from Morristown BMW!!! Attached are a couple of photos of the multimeter reading and the orange shift light still aglow!

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