kinda of a big problem
kinda of a big problem
ok i go through new batterys like it's candy. I dont drive the car so it sits up, my problem is i left the car with the new battery hooked up mon. and now i try to go start it fri and the damn thing is dead. the weather has been right about in the 50's. does your battery really die that fast if you dont drive it??? or could my car some how be drawing power from somewhere?
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wow same thing has bin happening to me do u have any added accessories like accent lighting, gauges, etc anything tht could draw even minimal power thts not factory installed?? my footwell lights used to draw power cuz they would dim but stay on n it would kill my battery i couldnt tell during the day so my batt would die...id say chek anything u have installed like tht...
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is your trunk or dome light on? that will drain it.
usualy with evreyting closed up and evreyting off the nominal "parasidic draw" of the battery should be ~50ma. thats .05 of an amp.
find the amp hour of your battery (stock is 47AH) and do the math. u got a 1 amp draw the battery should last at least 47 hours or almost 2 days.
at the above parasidic draw the battery will last 940 hours or 39.16 days.
usualy with evreyting closed up and evreyting off the nominal "parasidic draw" of the battery should be ~50ma. thats .05 of an amp.
find the amp hour of your battery (stock is 47AH) and do the math. u got a 1 amp draw the battery should last at least 47 hours or almost 2 days.
at the above parasidic draw the battery will last 940 hours or 39.16 days.
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well i have hids, and i dont know if my trunk lights even come on there is no lights back there cause i shaved trunk.! ill check wheni go home and charge the batttery.
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is your trunk or dome light on? that will drain it.
usualy with evreyting closed up and evreyting off the nominal "parasidic draw" of the battery should be ~50ma. thats .05 of an amp.
find the amp hour of your battery (stock is 47AH) and do the math. u got a 1 amp draw the battery should last at least 47 hours or almost 2 days.
at the above parasidic draw the battery will last 940 hours or 39.16 days.
usualy with evreyting closed up and evreyting off the nominal "parasidic draw" of the battery should be ~50ma. thats .05 of an amp.
find the amp hour of your battery (stock is 47AH) and do the math. u got a 1 amp draw the battery should last at least 47 hours or almost 2 days.
at the above parasidic draw the battery will last 940 hours or 39.16 days.
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There are two led's, driver and passenger door but thats what I thought too.I've left the battery connected twice now and went out of town.First time was 10 days second time 7 and she was dead when i got back both times.Keep in mind Im assuming it was the lights I could be wrong and just have a similar problem.
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at our Mazda-Subaru dealership, the Mazda Mazda6 cars die off on a weekly basis... well, with the amount of cars we have there, we're probably charging the batteries in the cars once every two weeks...and that's just unlocking and locking the cars up each day....even WITh the occasional lot party (rearrange the cars, so the cars are running then)
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i've had my car sitting for 8 weeks with the alarm LED flashing while i was deployed and my car started right up. i'd say you've got something else drawing power. not even a superflux LED would draw enough to kill a battery in a week. multiples? maybe, but you'd have to have about 10 superflux's on. regular LED's? probably 30 or more.
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at our Mazda-Subaru dealership, the Mazda Mazda6 cars die off on a weekly basis... well, with the amount of cars we have there, we're probably charging the batteries in the cars once every two weeks...and that's just unlocking and locking the cars up each day....even WITh the occasional lot party (rearrange the cars, so the cars are running then)
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my car pretty much does the same thing but i also have a little 11.5lb dry cell. as long as i start the car once a week it's fine, and this is in 20-30 degree temps.
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