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Old 11-18-2005, 06:29 AM   #16
Dudesky

Name: Dudesky
Title: Run Far
Status: Offline
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Rate My Car: 106 / 340
Your Ride: E39 530iA
I agree with c1apton's assessment. Additionally, get a new battery with higher reserve power (deep cycle), and take long highway drives more often, if you're doing mostly city driving. It sounds like a combination of your alternator having to do extra work since either your battery is always near discharged or can no longer take a full charge, or your alternator is up against too much resistance when trying to push current through your existing wires. I don't think the electronics you have warrant a 2nd battery. And incidentally, you don't just wire a up another battery in parallel- you need an isolator between them.
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