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Asked: Feb 03, 2008 - 02:33 PM

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something is draining my battery but the battery is fine and the alternater is good too?

My keyless entery stopped working changed the batterys still didnt work then my latch stopped working and my passenger door. Now something is draining my battery and the battery is fine as long with my alternater. i hooked it up to a tech 2 and nothing showed up and we checked the fuses but something is still draining my battery.

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bigdadi118

Date: Feb 03, 2008
Time: 05:36 PM

Do you have a light in the trunk. Check it out. May be it keeps on while the truck is closed.

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mr_shiftright

Date: Feb 03, 2008
Time: 08:30 PM

You'll have to hook up a test light to the battery, in series with the disconnected positive cable, and if the light lights, you have a drain (all doors closed, everything off, of course). If you don't get a light you still might have a small drain that you can detect with the milliamp gauge on your voltmeter. If you get a light or an Ma drain, then you just pull the fuses one by one until the light or meter goes off. Then you know at least the circuit. But finding the actual bugger still might not be easy when you have multiple items on one fuse. I have a similar problem and I know the fuse circuit but I can't find the actual drain, so I pull the fuse and now I have no dome light or radio. I'm going to rewire the radio to another circuit and I don't know what to do with the dome light issue.

As for the door latch not working, you might pull that fuse and see what happens to the test light.

There is a master switch in the driver's door that I suppose could b draining the battery

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hondo2001

Date: Feb 05, 2008
Time: 07:26 PM

My sister had a 1999 cavalier, changed battery twice, and alt checked out good, yet battery kept draining. I finally noticed the clock on the factory radio would not shut off after the key was romoved. Unpluged clock problem solved. [Hondo2001]New member.

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