Discharge problem

[ivan12]

For about a month now my car Has been draining my battery overnight. At first I thought that after I turned off my car my amp (afterMarket) stayed on and discharged my batt. What I started doing was unhooking my battery overnight so it wouldn't drain it but I kept forgetting to and my battery died. I recently had to replace my battery because it wouldn't hold a charge anymore. Just to try it out I unhooked my amp and left my battery hooked up overnight. I woke up the next day and my battery was completely dead. I thought it was my alternator, but I'm not sure because when my car is on and I unhook it from the batt my car doesn't turn off or even hesitates. Could the alternator still be bad? I have a bolt meter but I don't know where to start. Any clues or help is appreciated.

 

[kintek]

it sounds like a ground issues, somethign is grounding out and causing a power drain. When did this start, like what did you add on or mod before this occured?

 

[ivan12]

The only thing I can think of recently is when I wired my fan to a switch inside but it's been about 4 months since that. I also had some antifreeze leaking and I changed the thermostat, but I didn't move any wires. Anything I can start checking?

 

[kintek]

do you have your switch on all the time? and where did you locate that?

 

[ivan12]

I rarely turn it on in traffic jams, I did it off a sticky on the 94-95 forums directly to the fan electrical plug

 

[kintek]

I had that on my other 95 that I bought for 600 bucks. I noticed the power getting low for some reason and it was all stock. So I removed it and hard wired a new connection back to the old wiring harness for the fan. It worked great.

You may just double check your grounds inside with your sound system or anything that is electrical. Something is slowly doing this, I can't pin point it without looking at it.

 

[ivan12]

I guess i'll check it out tomorrow, if not I'll take it to an electrician

 

[kintek]

you can alway remove the switch temp and put plastic caps on the wires, see if that fixes the problem. ya never know. electrical gremlins suck.

 

[duh09]

Just for the record, your remote wire is bad if the amp is staying on. Had that happen a couple times. Best way to fix that is to run a whole new one.

 

[GDawg]

Do you have a DMM? Hook up in series for current draw and start pulling fuses. This will tell you where that drain is.

 

[CC'S95GT]

look at all your interior lights being on. sun visors, trunk, under hood, glove box, ash tray