Originally Posted by Bobby_Gaull

It won't start, today. I bought the Benz in Southern California last August and have kept it back home in Louisiana. But now I have just arrived back at school in Amherst, Massachusetts in JANUARY!! I arrived in the midst of the Blizzard of 2005(in Brooklyn). So, the car was buried and wouldn't start afterwards and I bought a new, big 850 cc battery. Its been starting better and quicker than ever before. But then this morning I go to get it going and the battery sounds close to dead. It won't turn over. Its doing that slow whirring like a crapped out battery would make. BUt that doesn't make sense because this battery is BRAND new and HUGE!

I think it is either one of two things: either I have a bad starter or something is draining my battery. I know that it isn't the alternator because I had it replaced in December before leaving New Orleans. Honestly, I wouldn't know what a bad starter would sound or feel like. No idea. On the other hand, a friend and I installed a cd player ourselves before right before i came up and there is a chance that it could be sapping power but I don't think so. We did everything by the book. The only other thing is that even without the key being in the ignition, i can hear what sounds like the battery humming or power cycling someplace (not the stereo or the ventilation), someplace that I have no earthly idea where it is!
I'M GOING CRAZY TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT! I PRAY FOR SOME KNOWLEDGEABLE GUIDANCE! HELP!