Car won't start at all now..

AuroraAxela · Postby **AuroraAxela** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:14

It has potential to.... but have you or anyone checked to see if you have a parasitic draw when the engine is off?

christi · Postby **christi** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:14

Nope. How does one do that?

AuroraAxela · Postby **AuroraAxela** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:14

not sure if I can explain it well.... get a multimeter, disconnect a battery terminal, and place the test leads into the circuit. After it settles for a minute, watch for a reading of more than about 2-5mA.... basically looking for signs that something is pulling more power than necessary to run, say, the clock.

christi · Postby **christi** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:14

We found it's the alternator. The car is sitting in my driveway with the battery not hooked up.....until I can afford the replacement

I'm gonna probably hook it up today after work or tomorrow afternoon and drive her around, but damn. Everything is going wrong for me lol

hcbr929rr2 · Postby **hcbr929rr2** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:14

If you have an electrical draw of some kind that needs fixin, after you charge/replace the battery you can swing the whole car by a pepboys and they can test the system to see if there is a draw, IIRC they don't charge for that test, and the handheld tester does everything so it would be pretty hard for them to screw it up lol, how do you know its the alternator?

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:14

You can also use a test light. Disconnect the negative terminal and hook the light between the terminal and negative post, if you have a draw the light will be on. Start pulling fuses until the light goes off. Then you'll know which circuit it's in at least.

eliminster · Postby **eliminster** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:14

Speedjunkie's method is litterally the easiest way to quickly pinpoint which circuit is giving you the draw, the only problem with going to pepboy's is their machine won't tell you where the draw is just that you have a draw. I think I mentioned that method to speedjunkie a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about the parasitic draw on the fd that joined us to cruise.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:14

Actually I had to do that back in 2009 because the driver's side door lock has a wire going to it that's bad so it was drawing on my battery and I used this method to find it lol.

You still might have told me though lol.

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