[s-cars] Battery going dead...rear windows dont work.

[Nick Stuart]

Doing the steps above Kent my bro and I tracked it down to the breaker
A1 which controls the automatic window up feature (which again was the
start of my problem to begin with with the relay issue).

So it looks like something got borked up and the auto window feature
was always on and causing the drain. Pulling the breaker and cutting
the little yellow wire seems to have solved the issues with the
battery draining.

Thanks all for the help!
-Nick

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:15:59 -0500, Kent McLean
<kentmclean at mindspring.com> wrote:
> "Nick Stuart" <baredok at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone know if the power going to the rear windows can be disconnected
> > with out snipping anything?
> 
> You could pull off the interior door panel and unplug the connector
> to the regulator motor, but unless that was the problem, you may
> still have the short causing the drain of the battery.
> 
> Here is something I just wrote up for someone on the V8 list, to help
> them find a drain on their battery.  (There must be a lot of this going
> around, like the flu.)
> 
> In a nutshell, you'll have to chase down the drain. Remove the positive
> cable from the battery, then place an ammeter between the battery's
> positive post and the end of the cable.  (If you don't have one, you can
> pick up a Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter (VOM or multimeter) for cheap at
> Radio Shack or Sears for $10-20; more if you want to get fancy).
> 
> The meter should show a slight value (about 0.05 amps) due to
> keeping the radio memory alive. Anything above that (like 1.5a)
> indicates a drain.  One by one, remove fuses from the fuse box until
> the drain goes away.  That isolates the circuit causing the drain.  Put
> the fuses back in, and start checking the items that are protected by
> the telltale fuse.  For example, you may find that removing the fuse for
> the trunk light kills the drain.  You then discover the trunk light stays
> on when the truck lid is closed, caused by a faulty switch. Replace the
> switch, and the battery drain problem goes away.  Of course, your
> problem probably won't be that simple. :)
> 
> HTH,
> Kent
> '94 100 S Avant
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" has a new home
> 
>