DataPlug?

[GTI_Ant]

I've installed it on my new R and will try it out for a month.  I hope it doesn't draw current when the ignition is switched off, and drain the battery - I noticed an LED briefly light up when I plugged it in.  I would have thought the OBD port would have no power on it with the ignition switched off?

[I wanted a GTi]

I've installed it on my new R and will try it out for a month.  I hope it doesn't draw current when the ignition is switched off, and drain the battery - I noticed an LED briefly light up when I plugged it in.  I would have thought the OBD port would have no power on it with the ignition switched off?

I left my OBDeleven in the car and the next day the battery was dead but the data plug must have some sort of switch to turn it off when the car is off.

[Vwjap]

I've installed it on my new R and will try it out for a month.  I hope it doesn't draw current when the ignition is switched off, and drain the battery - I noticed an LED briefly light up when I plugged it in.  I would have thought the OBD port would have no power on it with the ignition switched off?

I left my OBDeleven in the car and the next day the battery was dead but the data plug must have some sort of switch to turn it off when the car is off.

surely it would go into low profile mode when it senses the ignition off on the canbus

[Talk-torque]

It goes to the trouble of showing you the battery voltage at the end of your last trip, so it would be rather rude of it to reduce this to useless before you got back to the car! I reckon VW would have thought of that one.

Mine never gave me any trouble, of this sort, while it was fitted and the car was left for a few days, sometimes, so I wouldn't consider battery discharge to be a potential problem.

You cannot connect with the device with the ignition off.

[I wanted a GTi]

I've installed it on my new R and will try it out for a month.  I hope it doesn't draw current when the ignition is switched off, and drain the battery - I noticed an LED briefly light up when I plugged it in.  I would have thought the OBD port would have no power on it with the ignition switched off?

I left my OBDeleven in the car and the next day the battery was dead but the data plug must have some sort of switch to turn it off when the car is off.

surely it would go into low profile mode when it senses the ignition off on the canbus

If you're talking about the data plug then yes it must have, if you're talking about OBDeleven then not so sure because it ran my battery down.

[Vwjap]

I was thinking of putting a extra obdeleven port in mine with a switched live instead of a permanent one so I could leave the obdeleven plugged in all the time, thinking about it I could always pull the fuse to the diagnostic and run a link from that fuse socket to a switched fuse socket so that I wouldn’t have to run any more leads