This sucks.

Two weeks ago I go out and put the battery back in my car. Charged it up a bit with the charger. Turned headlights on, they worked fine, wasn't ready to start it up yet so I let it be.

I go out today to start it up to get it out of the backyard. The remote unlock doors worked, but then when I got in the car and tried to crank it, a slight tick and that's it.

Put the charger back on, and the battery was only pulling 6 amps (10 amp battery charger)

Now it's down to about 2 amps, and there's no electrical whatsoever, no remote doors, no lights, nothing.

Where do I even begin?

 

I'd start with the battery, bring it in somewhere and have it load tested for free.

 

Darn, false alarm. Got it figured out. I lost the positive battery terminal, and got a different one, it was to long, and wasn't pressing the battery cable securely up against the battery terminal. Once I got that figured, it started no problem.

Well, other then blowing out a few more rat house remains.

 

Did the rat chew up any of the wiring in there? I've heard plenty of horror stories of that happening.

 

Luckily it doesn't appear that the little bastard did. Just chewed most of the hood insulation up and made it his home. Then he brought in about half a ton of large seeds.