i have replaced my battery twice (optima yellow top) and i have replaced my alternator... why does my battery keep dying????
2006-09-26 13:51:03 · 8 answers · asked by alex v 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
thanks you two are really helping me s h i t heads
2006-09-26 13:53:59 · update #1
It might be a parasitic load. Disconnect the negative battery cable and use a test lamp and hook up one end to the battery terminal and one end to the cable. If the light lights up brightly you've got a parasitic load. If it does, leave the it hooked up and pull fuses one at a time until the light dims or goes out. Whichever one this happens with, that is where your parasitic load is.
2006-09-26 14:06:14 · answer #1 · answered by melissaandjon 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like something is draining the battery, a trunk light on when closed or some circuit shorted, take battery cable off over night and put back on in the morning and see if it starts ok.
2006-09-26 14:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by mister ss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does the battery stay up if you disconnect the ground from the battery? Drain from a small current will kill even the best batterys. As always year make model and engine size and transmission any sound ampfliers? ect
2006-09-26 13:55:52 · answer #3 · answered by John Paul 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you have an alarm? This could be the culprit. I had this happen to me. Never had a problem till I got the alarm put on. Sears diagnosed my problem. What about the generator, battery cables, starter. I think something is draining your battery. What about you ignition, or your ignition coil. And I think there is one more other little thing, and I can't remember what it is called. I'd get it diagnosed.
2006-09-26 14:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by noface 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband had a problem with his car battery - he bought a new one and yet it died on him. The mechanic who came out to look at it for us was a total legend and explained to my husband that he needed to clean off the terminals because unclean terminals will read as a dead battery.
Perhaps this is what's happening? If not, sorry - I'm not a car / bike person...
2006-09-26 13:59:52 · answer #5 · answered by ausbabe29_megan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably have a short somewhere that's putting direct draw on the battery. Tough job to find but only way to properly repair is fix the short!
2006-09-26 14:01:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because ther's something worng betweeen the relationship of your car to your alternator, and so they aren't working.
take it into a better mechanic.
;) good luck!
2006-09-26 13:53:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because you killed it thats why
2006-09-26 15:18:52 · answer #8 · answered by sweetgirl4ever8889 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋