Battery drain after fitting handsfree kit..

[Gmac]

Afternoon all!..

So I've just fitted a parrot handsfree kit to the car.  I'm getting battery drain.

Car is an '05 plate gti. The head unit is the original MFD2 and I got the SOT iso harness from eBay for the mk5 (one that doesn't included adapter/wiring for mfsw.  The red power cable from the sot harness is wired to the fuse panel using 'slot 10' which I tested and supllies 12v when ignition is turned on.  There is no power to the parrot when the keys aren't turned on.

Why would I now be getting battery drain?  Is there something that I haven't done? 

TIA

[Gmac]

Anyone?

[Andy]

does the parrot unit switch of when you take the key out

[Gmac]

does the parrot unit switch of when you take the key out

Yep..

[Andy]

Take it you had no problems before the parrot kit was installed
Just wondering if you need to change your can bus or up date it

[rich83]

does the parrot unit switch of when you take the key out

Yep..

Does it switch off properly... as in saying "goodbye" or does it just go dead?

[Gmac]

Take it you had no problems before the parrot kit was installed
Just wondering if you need to change your can bus or up date it

No problems before the kit was installed.

[Gmac]

does the parrot unit switch of when you take the key out

Yep..

Does it switch off properly... as in saying "goodbye" or does it just go dead?

It's the ck3100 model. I'd need to check to see if it says goodbye, but I've got a funny feeling it doesn't.

[rich83]

If it doesn't then you have it wired in incorrectly. You need to double check the permenant live and switched live feeds.

[Gmac]

If it doesn't then you have it wired in incorrectly. You need to double check the permenant live and switched live feeds.

It just goes dead.  Not sure what two feeds these are.  I've used the red cable and wired that to a switched live in the fuse panel.  That's all I've done.  What/where is the permanent live?

Oddly enough, I've just been out to the car now, expecting it not to start, but it showed no sign of drain! Weird!!

[rich83]

The parrot needs 2 feeds.

Perm live
Switched live.

Usually one is red and one is orange.

[Andy]

I have just took a parrot out of mine that was installed by the previous owner
Ignition live as on to the radio wires and permanent live from fuse box

[Gmac]

Thanks for the reply fellas. 

So I need to figure out which wire is which, ie is red switched live and orange perm. And then wire accordingly. Or the wires the same until you wire them up?

[Gmac]

So, been doing some more reading and it could be that we are getting our wires crossed! Lol.  I've read that some VW/audis need to have the parrot red and orange fused wires swapped over with each other, ie the parrot red goes to orange and the orange goes to red.  These wires having nothing to do with the red and orange wires that are part of the sot harness, which is what I was talking about being (red) wired to a switched terminal in the fuse box.

Does this sound right? A swap could sort the problem?

[rich83]

I'm sure there is something about the swapping of the wires in the instructions