Battery Being Drained? Help

[importcars]

95 Camry LE..

Alright, first thing happened, when i tried to start my car there was a extremely rapid clicking.. I have experinced this before when i had a bad battery.. I got the battery replaced

4months later, I try to start the car.. Same thing happend.. I dont believe its a bad battery?

I get it brought to autozone, they test the battery, its good. He said something is draining the battery, b/c he watched it being drained while he had it hooked up.

So i was sure it was the starter or alternator

Today: I just went to autozone, after removing the Starter and Alternator, taking both to be tested.. Both PASSED

Now im lost? I have no idea what it could be? Any help would be greatly appreciated, any questions that i missed, just ask, and i will try and shed some light.

EDIT: Currently to keep my car working, i unplug the ground wire to for the battery so whatever is running the battery down does not harm it.. and i just hook up it up before i go somewhere and its fine..

[Qslim]

Originally Posted by importcars

95 Camry LE..

Alright, first thing happened, when i tried to start my car there was a extremely rapid clicking.. I have experinced this before when i had a bad battery.. I got the battery replaced

4months later, I try to start the car.. Same thing happend.. I dont believe its a bad battery?

I get it brought to autozone, they test the battery, its good. He said something is draining the battery, b/c he watched it being drained while he had it hooked up.

So i was sure it was the starter or alternator

Today: I just went to autozone, after removing the Starter and Alternator, taking both to be tested.. Both PASSED

Now im lost? I have no idea what it could be? Any help would be greatly appreciated, any questions that i missed, just ask, and i will try and shed some light.

EDIT: Currently to keep my car working, i unplug the ground wire to for the battery so whatever is running the battery down does not harm it.. and i just hook up it up before i go somewhere and its fine..

Sounds like you have a parasitic draw somewhere. If you have a meter and you're comfortable with doing a little poking around, it's not too tough to begin to isolate where the problem is. All cars now will have a little draw when the car is off because of various timers and clocks in the computer, but not enough to kill the battery during normal usage. I don't have the exact figure infront of me, but ball park acceptable draw is 20 - 30 miliamps (.02 - .03).

-Get a meter, set it to the proper scale, disconnect the - battery terminal and put the meter in series. Shut the car door, take the key out, and let the computer go to sleep (30 secs or so).

-Look at the amperage the meter is showing. This is the juice that the car is drawing while it's sleeping. The theory here is to start pulling fuses and unplugging things to isolate the circuit that is pulling the current while the car is off. When you find it, the reading should drop down to an acceptable level.

-Start with anything aftermarket, these are usually the prime suspects (radios, amps, radar detectors, cell phone chargers, etc.). Check the alternator and starter too, because the test at autozone wouldn't necessarily reveal a current draw problem. Pull the starter relay and disconnect the battery wire from the alternator.


Anyway, that's a start. Hope it gets you in the right direction.

[prnc_chrmng]

yeah, id say start with any aftermarket elecrtonic you have. start with the last thing you added.

[Mike Gerber]

Many times I have seen this type of accessive "dark current draw", as it's called, traced to a defective aftermarket alarm system. If you have an aftermarket alarm on the car, it would be the first thing I would check, using Qslim's procedure. They usually have an inline fuse on them.

Mike

[Kep]

Kind of like qslim proposed, put an in-line meter (or light) between the battery and the battery cable (I don't think it matters if it is the positive or negative one). You should get a light or a meter reading. Start pulling the fuses one by one (keep track of which one came from where) until the current stops (light dwindles or meter reading drops to normal). Once you determine which circuit (fuse) is responsible you can begin checking the accessories on that circuit..

Kep

[Stillrunning]

This should help as well as what everyone else posted:
http://www.autoshop101.com/trainmodu...rvice/118.html