troubleshooting, electrical problem Options

[johnnybravo04]

Hello All,

I have a problem, when my car is turned off my battery drains it will start if it only sits for a couple hours but it is noticable that the battery is not fully charged. If the car sits over night however it needs to be jump started. I've already checked all the basics and have also disconnected the battery overnight to see if the battery just wasn't retaining a charge. It started fine the next morning;So the battery holds a charge. I thought I had the issue narrowed down to the stereo/cig lighter because when I removed the corresponding fuse then let the car sit overnight the car started fine the next morning but since then it has not started when removing the fuse and having the car sit overnight. So do you guys have any tips on how to figure out where current is being drewn from? Any help would be greatly appriciated.

[AudioFreak]

Disconnect the negative battery terminal and put a multimeter inbetween the ground cable and the ngative terminal. Take an amp reading. It should be next to nothing. Seeing how it drains the battery it will probably be a couple of amps draw showing. Like you did before remove fuses one by one to pinpoint the source and go from there.

DON'T TRY TO START THE CAR WITH THE MULTIMETER STILL CONNECTED INLINE WITH THE GROUND CABLE THE CURRENT DRAW WILL FRY IT.