I have had this problem as well on another car. I can try and start it with less than about 12.8V or so with no luck. Once I charge it over that, it starts right up.

Maybe there is some electrical leak going on that I am not aware of....

 

I bought a new battery a couple weeks ago from Wal-Mart, and it works no problem. Even in the cold weather we get in my area now. Once it starts to not get above freezing, you shouldn't go more than 5 days without starting it. Just to keep every fluid flowing and the battery up to par. Just my $.02. Good Luck.

 

How would I go about checking it with a multimeter in series.

 

1) No cigarette lighter in an S2K

B) No light in the glove box - which isn't really even a glove box

 

not TECHNICALLY a cigarette lighter, but a 12V outlet. Same thing, in essence. But yeah, it'd be really odd to find coins in there

 

I was just giving simple examples so he could understand what parasitic draw is. I realize there is no light in the glove box. Thanks.

 

I dont know if this helps but if I hook up the battery one night and it reads about 12.80v the next mornin it would be about 12.60. plus when I checked with the meter in series and set on 10a it reads 0.06 is this normal. Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Anybody

 

I may be on to something, I pulled the radio fuse under the dash and meter went to 0.00 when I put it back in it reads 0.06 does anybody know what it should be. In addition, the car wont start with this fuse out why is that.

 

Thanks anyways, it was the ipod interface that I had bought so I wouldn't have to take out oem hu but it turns out the thing was draining .05 milliamps always, and in turn after a week of this the battery was slowly diminishing. Thanks for the help.