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Old 05-30-2009   #3
1gawdsm
 

Join Date: May 2009
Location: Lake of the woods
Drives: 1991 Eagle Talon TSI AWD
Posts: 10
Re: New battery and its dead within a week.

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Originally Posted by Gravy View Post
As an ex-service writer, most common items are under hood light, trunk light, glove box light, or security system. Try removing them one by one to see if it changes. Beyond that it's checking all items that use power one by one. Shops are often charging $100 an hour for electrical diag and it can take DAYS to find it sometimes. So, if it's not those, you can see if anyone else has any ideas. See if there is any clicking from a relay either if you remove the positive/neg terminals from the battery to indicate something being on.

If it's a wire grounding out somewhere than your in for a long night.

there is a clicking under the hood when I put the negative cable back on. At one time I have the kill switch to the car won't start position. Then I put it to the car will start position after I put the negative cable back on and the relay next to ECU start clicking until I had to switch the kill switch again.
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