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post Jan 29, 2010 - 12:16 AM
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For some reason my celica always seems to drain my battery when I park it and dont use it overnight. After a jump it fires right up and have no further issues. What I have done when its completely dead I jump start it, drive it for like an hour and let the alternator charge the battery up. When I go to park it overnight, I remove the main 60A fuse in the engine bay and leave it like that. The next day It fires right up no problems, but if I leave the fuse in place next morning, starter just starts clikkkin, cant even crank the car. I have looked for something thats draining the power but cant find anything, I dont even have a stereo in place. Any help appreicated.
 
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post Feb 6, 2010 - 1:49 AM
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QUOTE (Stambo @ Feb 5, 2010 - 10:16 PM) *
get a multi meter and take the neg or positive calbe off and set it to measuare amps, use the multi meter as a jumper between the battery and the pos. or neg. cable. You should see a current draw, now start pulling fuses and when you pull a fuse and the current draw drops, you know that you have a parasitic drain from that specific circuit.


This. I can't remember the exact numbers, but most cars will pull a small amperage when completely off (like .5 of an amp at most). So you'll never get it to zero.


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- viruz_one   Someithing keeps killing my battery   Jan 29, 2010 - 12:16 AM
- - nics   how old is you battery?   Jan 29, 2010 - 1:37 AM
- - Hanyo   take your car battery to be charged and tested at ...   Jan 29, 2010 - 2:09 AM
- - viruz_one   Its really not that old, I would say about or a li...   Jan 29, 2010 - 3:50 AM
- - str8thugginit4ya   Make sure and get your battery tested before you g...   Jan 29, 2010 - 9:35 AM
- - 1994Celica   QUOTE (viruz_one @ Jan 29, 2010 - 12...   Jan 31, 2010 - 10:31 PM
- - Random_Stranger   It's your battery. Brand name does make a dif...   Jan 31, 2010 - 10:50 PM
- - vile_v   Random is right... brand name batteries are usuall...   Jan 31, 2010 - 11:08 PM
- - viruz_one   Thats exactly what I think it is, something is wir...   Feb 3, 2010 - 11:22 PM
- - D-Man   step one is to test it. autozone, napa, o'rile...   Feb 3, 2010 - 11:37 PM
- - johnnehh   QUOTE (D-Man @ Feb 4, 2010 - 12...   Feb 3, 2010 - 11:41 PM
- - epocsirhc   It doesn't sound like a battery but a parasiti...   Feb 4, 2010 - 12:58 AM
|- - viruz_one   QUOTE (epocsirhc @ Feb 4, 2010 - 12...   Feb 4, 2010 - 11:49 PM
- - trdproven   if you say your battery and your alternator is goo...   Feb 4, 2010 - 2:24 AM
- - trdproven   you can tell if your player is not using a remote,...   Feb 5, 2010 - 1:16 AM
- - Stambo   get a multi meter and take the neg or positive cal...   Feb 5, 2010 - 11:16 PM
- - blu94gt   QUOTE (Stambo @ Feb 5, 2010 - 10:16 ...   Feb 6, 2010 - 1:49 AM
- - Stambo   yea i realize that, the computers need power to sa...   Feb 6, 2010 - 2:24 PM
- - delusionz   I binned a 1 Farad capacitor due to this. If I ev...   Feb 10, 2010 - 7:20 AM
- - GrimReaper   I'm suspecting a low battery as others said bu...   Feb 10, 2010 - 3:19 PM
- - epocsirhc   Did you ever find out what was causing the drain? ...   Feb 12, 2010 - 12:16 AM
- - cibrit-   I had problems with my car when I first got it. I...   Feb 16, 2010 - 10:28 PM
- - Batman722   it's either your battery or the voltage regula...   Feb 16, 2010 - 11:11 PM
|- - Jaws4God   QUOTE (Batman722 @ Feb 17, 2010 - 12...   Dec 20, 2010 - 10:17 PM
- - cibrit-   That's the name!! Thanks batman, I com...   Feb 17, 2010 - 11:48 AM
- - Velliety   I had the same thing happen - mine turned out to b...   Feb 17, 2010 - 8:17 PM
- - viruz_one   OK bumping this old thread back... After further...   Jul 7, 2010 - 11:19 PM
- - Batman722   did you unokyg your hazzard light switch ? that wo...   Jul 7, 2010 - 11:35 PM
- - viruz_one   LOL! OMG Yes I did! I actually removed all...   Jul 8, 2010 - 12:03 AM
- - chacha   you can check yourself....if you can start your ca...   Dec 20, 2010 - 10:41 PM
|- - Jaws4God   QUOTE (chacha @ Dec 20, 2010 - 11:41...   Dec 21, 2010 - 8:29 PM
|- - trebilihp   QUOTE (Jaws4God @ Dec 21, 2010 - 8:2...   Dec 21, 2010 - 9:03 PM
- - trebilihp   Was actually my alternator. Changed it, runs well....   Dec 25, 2010 - 1:04 PM


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