Electrical - Battery Goes Discharges if Vehicle Sits

Date: November 16, 2005

Order No.: P-B-54.30/153

Supersedes:

Group: 54

SUBJECT:
Model 230.474/475/476/479, as of VIN F087063 up to F109635

Increased Rest Current Consumption by Instrument Cluster

If you receive customer reports in the above model vehicles of the battery discharging after an extended period of idle time and the instrument cluster preventing the Controller Area Network (CAN) from entering sleep status, the instrument cluster may be faulty.





Instrument clusters that may prevent CAN from entering sleep status are:

To resolve, replace instrument cluster as per WIS documentation (AR54.30-P-6015R) with a succeeding part number per EPC. Do not replace instrument cluster with one of the part numbers listed above.

Note:
The following allowable labor operations should be used when submitting a warranty claim for this repair.





In Case of Warranty