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What is draining my battery? 850 1997

posted by  Bill1959 on  Mon Dec 11 11:28 CST 2006
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The original message was actually posted by "Torque" ...

When I put my present battery in 4 months ago, it worked great(comparatively), as you also have observed. But recently, it was dead after only a couple days of sitting.

I now suspect that my glove box light had been "ON" continuously since I bought the car 8 months ago. I never had a clue, as I must have been starting the car often enough (and running it long enough) to keep the battery sufficiently charged. But as I read now, all of this repeated, excessive discharging takes its toll. A car battery is not designed for this type of use, and will eventually fail prematurely. My battery may still be reasonably OK for a while, but I'm sure its life has been reduced significantly ... may also have been the case with your battery, but Advance Auto didn't want to make an issue out of it.

If you haven't already, I suggest you try the test as recommended by "fixit 2003" in this thread. Takes about ten minutes. You may be surprised!
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