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zipposusa
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| Posts: 2
| Joined: 05/08
Posted: 05/25/08
10:28 AM
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Carver, If there was a short in the battery you would be showing a current draw if you are putting your VM between the neg. post and neg. cable. When you place the vm between these 2 points and show a draw then you have a draw externally of the battery. You have something seriously drawing. I just posted with a similar problem with my chevy 3500 truck. But mine is only a 56ma draw. And yes a 140ma draw will draw your battery dead in no time. Mine goes dead in 2-3 days. Keep watching and see if nick has any insight. I have traced it a heater harness so far. On the firewall passenger side do you have a be plastic cover that is mounted close to where the comes down and meets this black cover? Do you have writing on this panel and says junction block? If it does, this is how I started. Place your amp meter between the cable and battery. Take the nut off of one post at a time and see if your draw goes down. If it doesn't then move on to the next one. Keep in mind though that one of those leads, (usually the biggest one or the one on the far left is the supply lead). Mine was the 4 wire over from the left side. That included the power lead.
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aero4000
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| Posts: 1
| Joined: 06/08
Posted: 06/12/08
01:59 PM
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After a year of sporadic dead batteries and a battery replacement, I have realized that my battery only dies when the car is left outside in the SUMMER. I've left it for a week in the winter with no problems. But a few days in the heat and it's dead. It's the opposite of what I'd expect. The car is a 2003 Infiniti G35.
Any ideas about this?
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1990Ford
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| Posts: 1
| Joined: 07/08
Posted: 07/12/08
09:45 PM
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Nick,
I have a 1990 Ford F-150. I replaced the battery about 8 months ago with a Sears Die Hard. I haven't had a problem until this afternoon when I went to start it and it was dead. I jumped started it, ran it for a while (about 20 minutes) and shut it off. About three hours later I started it again and it fired right up. I moved it to the fromt of my house to load it with stuff and after being shut off for about three hours, it wouldn't start again!
Any ideas or directions? Keep in mind I'm not very mechanically inclined... but my 23 year old son is!
Thanks,
Mike
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