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Thanks. I buttoned up the car for the night and hooked the battery back up...as an afterthought, I set my multimeter to check for AC voltage and placed the probes across the battery. It read 27.5. I vaguely remembered this as a check for bad diodes in an alternator, which can also cause...

This car runs great in every way and the battery runs down when the car's been sitting for a couple of weeks....turns over very slow and *barely* starts. Had to jumpstart it once after it sat a couple weeks in cold weather. Not an issue if the car's driven regularly, but my daughter can go a...

I connected a multimeter in series between the negative battery cable and the negative post of the battery and found a draw of between 200 and 300 milliamps...can't be much more accurate since my meter jumps from a 200ma setting to a 10amp setting. Then I removed and replaced all fuses & relays...

No dash indicator lights are on at all, not even a "door ajar". There is no trunk light and no dome light switch for the hatchback door, only for the driver & passenger doors. Can a datalink draw amps when the ignition is off?

Hoping for advice from someone who's been down this road before.... My daughter's 1998 Civic DX hatchback (all stock) has had a prolblem with battery drain when it's not being driven on a regular basis. If the car isn't driven for a week or more, it's difficult to start. The previous owner...

Wow...I just got a used (but VERY nice) '99 DX hatchback yesterday and had this exact problem last night. Rolled the driver's window down and it jumped out of the front track. These are MANUAL crank windows but I ended up doing EXACTLY what was described in the first post here, including putting...