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Originally Posted by nico
Hello All,
I narrowed it down to a red, cotton wire that starts at a junction terminal positioned in front of the battery and appears to go behind the fuse box.
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When you say you narrowed it down, what do you mean exactly? I am assuming that the battery is going dead without having driven the car at all - so it's not an alternator problem. In that case you have a parasitic drain. Trying to find your parasitic drain can be as easy as installing an ammeter in series with one of your battery cables. If you read high (over 25-50 milliamps) then something is drawing too much current. Start pulling fuses until you see your milliamps drop. Of course, when i say "can be as easy as," I mean could possibly have the potential to be easy - seems I always end up pulling my hair out (if I had any) over these things. The other potential problem is that all of the electrical components that now require power when the ignition is off causing problems. Attached is a PDF that I have found helpful in the past. Good luck!
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Last edited by tankowner; 06-26-2008 at 10:40 PM.
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