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Bmw x5 2007 3.0 Si doesn’t start

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Hi,
I am not able to start my car if I park it outside but there’s no problem if i park it in the garage.
I’ve managed to start it with jump starter couple times.

Glow plugs has been changed a year ago. I am not sure about if it’s because of weather. It’s between 10-20 degrees nowadays so it shouldn’t be so cold to spark the engine.
Even if I charge the battery like fully , I am having same issue next day.

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3 Answers

  1. You need to make sure that you don’t have any shortcut on your wirings.
    If so then your battery about to die.
    I recommend you to buy battery with higher CCA.

  2. I took my car to electrician. He successfully diagnosed the problem. There was some oxidation on the lighter socket. Car lighter has power even if car is not running. So because of that oxidation it was getting in shortcut and drain my battery.

    I also replaced to battery with higher cca as Kate recommended.

    Everything works fine so far.