well i thin kbaout 3-4 weeks ago my car wouldnt start cause the battery was dead....so i take it to get charged, fully chagred good battery it said...drove it for about 3-4 weeks then this morning my car doesnt start again due to dead battery...WHAT IN the WORLD is causing my battery to die???????????
please help

 

i have a radar detector that nevers goes off over night!

 

Has the alternator gone bad?

 

nope...charges just fine when car is running.....never have problems when car is running though....

 

D@mn, that's all I had . Guess it could be the radar detector then. If that's what you think is causing the problems why don't you just unplug it at night?

 

i woulndt think such a small source would cause my battery to die......

 

yea, why not wire that radar detector to an ignition wire rather than a constant?

 

what brand radar detector do you have?

 

You have a parasitic current draw that is draining your battery. I'm guessing that when you drive the car every day it works fine, but if you don't drive it for a few days its dead.

You will have to track down the offending circuit. In my case my console light switch never extinguished the console light and drained my battery in a couple of days.

Check out this post for some good troubleshooting tips:
Current Draw Troubleshooting

 

well i have the radio shack deector the most expensive one...which works pretty well....but also i have a constant static noise comming from my passenger front speaker and i replaced it thinking it was busted but ended up being a wire touching something to my ground, specially when i go over a bump or somehting it makes loud as static noise......
lemme know ill bbl interveiw at 4pm...its now 3:15
randy