Continuous Battery Drain

[Martin]

Hoping someone can help.

I know my alternator works, however my battery constantly drains. I will charge it for an hour whilst idling, but within 2 days its dead flat again. This has happened 6 times, and I have checked all obvious power draining sources and am convinced it is something else.

Any thoughts? Is it electrical?
Is it best to take to a fiat dealer or a person who specializes in Diagnostic checks?
Any thoughts as to how hard it is to locate and fix this sort of situation.

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[Tom]

You sure your battery is not shagged? If they are damaged they won't hold a charge.

 

[E.j]

Re: Re: Continuous Battery Drain

hey i dont know if this helps or have any point at all but i had have no problem with my hlx apart from battery totally drained even though i baught a brand new one of hellfords. This happened last year summer when i first bought the car and install my ice. I took it to a garage and they checked everything but they seems to find everything working including the alternator. So they adviced me to go to a car electricians specialist and still found nothing wrong!!! (that was long) Anyways i decided to rearange my cables and i found that the ground cable for my amp is not properly connected to the car. Anyways i did everything and since then i had have no trouble at all. sorry if this doesnt help but i tought i should just mention it. WEIRD HUH!!!

 

[Nicola]

Hi,

I don't know if this helps either, but I had a similar problem with mine.

First some of the dash lights stayed on and then one cold day my battery was flat. I charged it twice after this and then it finally died.

Just had a new one replaced, I think mine was drained so quick because the garage forgot to turn the heated seats off, while they were fixing something.

Nicola

 

[Nicola]

Hi,

I don't know if this helps either, but I had a similar problem with mine.

First some of the dash lights stayed on and then one cold day my battery was flat. I charged it twice after this and then it finally died.

Just had a new one replaced, I think mine was drained so quick because the garage forgot to turn the heated seats off, while they were fixing something.

Nicola

 

[Nicola]

Hi,

I don't know if this helps either, but I had a similar problem with mine.

First some of the dash lights stayed on and then one cold day my battery was flat. I charged it twice after this and then it finally died.

Just had a new one replaced, I think mine was drained so quick because the garage forgot to turn the heated seats off, while they were fixing something.

Nicola

 

[Nicola Monaghan]

Hi,

I don't know if this helps either, but I had a similar problem with mine.

First some of the dash lights stayed on and then one cold day my battery was flat. I charged it twice after this and then it finally died.

Just had a new one replaced, I think mine was drained so quick because the garage forgot to turn the heated seats off, while they were fixing something.

Nicola

 

[Nicola Monaghan]

Re: Re: Continuous Battery Drain

sorry about that. this site plays up sometimes with me. It won't update the post and says I am logged out and takes me back to the same page.