sam z
Well-Known Member
After leaving the car sit for a few days, you guessed it, dead battery.
If you are interested or believe you can help by all means keep reading:
This is what I have done:
1. -Yesterday: Battery dead. Jump start car with wife's Honda. Drive around a little bit and did some internet research in order to trouble shoot.
-Charged the battery for roughly 4/5 hours. Needle gets into "charged" range but not much more. Unplug for the night.
2. - Today: (Battery has been disconnected since last night).
-Returned from work and ran some tests with voltmeter. Results say in the range of "Replace Battery".
-Ran a test to see if there was some sort of draw with the voltmeter. Needle didn't move during the test.
-Took to auto store. Their machine states , "replace battery, alternator good, passed on the test to see if there was a draw."
My point is this: Should I be skeptical of this test they ran? The car is so damn old I'm sweating a draw from some location in the car. Only thing that would indicate no draw (besides the tests that were done) is that I don't appear to have any electrical equipment malfunctioning.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance...
If you are interested or believe you can help by all means keep reading:
This is what I have done:
1. -Yesterday: Battery dead. Jump start car with wife's Honda. Drive around a little bit and did some internet research in order to trouble shoot.
-Charged the battery for roughly 4/5 hours. Needle gets into "charged" range but not much more. Unplug for the night.
2. - Today: (Battery has been disconnected since last night).
-Returned from work and ran some tests with voltmeter. Results say in the range of "Replace Battery".
-Ran a test to see if there was some sort of draw with the voltmeter. Needle didn't move during the test.
-Took to auto store. Their machine states , "replace battery, alternator good, passed on the test to see if there was a draw."
My point is this: Should I be skeptical of this test they ran? The car is so damn old I'm sweating a draw from some location in the car. Only thing that would indicate no draw (besides the tests that were done) is that I don't appear to have any electrical equipment malfunctioning.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance...