The pain in my a$$

[Late4Work]

Well on top of buying a lot of new parts, I now have an electrical gremlin, keeps draining my battery after a week of not driving

I swear this car is gonna kill me

 

[CC'S95GT]

ck your sun visors, under hood and trunk lights.

 

[Kirenaaz]

Well on top of buying a lot of new parts, I now have an electrical gremlin, keeps draining my battery after a week of not driving

I've got the same problem myself. Currently waiting for a day where it's not pissing rain to take a multimeter to the fuse boxes, battery and ground with the key out to at least find out what circuit it's drawing from.

 

[CC'S95GT]

Might be the stereo amps.
there is also a possibility alternator is causing the drain too.

 

[Late4Work]

I'm just gonna put in a kill switch

 

[ttocs]

take just as long to install the switch as it would to diagnose what is really wrong. Hook up an amp meter to the battery, and then start pulling fuses one at a time. When your current reading drops after pulling a fuse will show you where to look at what is wrong.

 

[Marvin97]

Might be the stereo amps.
there is also a possibility alternator is causing the drain too.

+1 on the mach amps, seen that happen a few times

 

[Late4Work]

My amps r currently broken

 

[ttocs]

broken or disconnected?

 

[Late4Work]

They went out on me a few weeks ago, so they r now disconnected.....

Now when I get on it and put it in neutral, when the RPMs drop, they go all the way to around 4-600, and will sometimes kill the car..... I've noticed it when I'm not even getting on it too

 

[Late4Work]

ok here goes......went today to work on it.....all the engine fuses didnt really bring my volts down or anything.......inside the number 8 fuse(auto entry, inside lights etc) made the volt meter bounce about .05 up when i took it out and played with it by shutting the door, taking it out, putting it back in, the volts jumped up from 12.49 to 13.5......the mechanic said it could be a fluke and the module might just needed to be reset......but i think thats my electrical gremlin......any ideas??

 

[CC'S95GT]

how old is the battery?
What voltage does the alternator put out while the engine is running?

 

[Late4Work]

Battery is about 6 hrs old, it went from 12.45 to 13.3 when the engine cranked over

 

[Mustanger]

You get better results measuring actual amps or milliamps than volts. just have to put the ammeter in series with one battery lead though...watchout & don't crank it over!

 

[BigBore96]

Battery is about 6 hrs old, it went from 12.45 to 13.3 when the engine cranked over

It could just be your battery is tired. I replaced my 99 cougars 3 year old battery the other day because it wouldn't hold a charge longer than about 9 days. But it would show it had the proper volts. Alt put out proper volts. The battery just didn't have enough cranking power anymore. So sadly.... I gave it my Cobra's battery because I knew it was a solid battery as it will crank my higher compression 5.0 an easy 20 times a day.

 

[whiplash473]

glove box light too.....i didnt know mine was stuck on till i led'd my interior and saw a little light comin out from the side......didnt notice it with a standard 194 but the led was just bright enough to see it at night

 

[Late4Work]

I didn't know there was a light in there

 

[MustangChris]

want the red-neck fix?

install a battery kill switch on the dashboard