BMW 06 electrical issues

Asked by Ohop123 May 30, 2013 at 04:11 PM about the 2006 BMW 5 Series 525xi Sedan AWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Battery is 2 years old and will not hold a charge.  This seems to be the case since I had it in for the battery cbale recall.  Thank you!

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If you have had the cable done per the recall, I would either take the battery back to wherever you purchased it or hook it up to a voltage meter to see how much power the battery is producing. It could be faulty?

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If the battery was not registered to the vehicle upon replacment the vehicle will kill it from over charging. your car uses a smart charging cycle and needs to be reset every time you replace the battery.

To add to this note, it took a while but we found a corrupt seat module under the driver's seat. And there are other modules in the trunk that may have bad connectors.

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