Hey guys.
My newest car, has a voltage drain somewhere. The battery is fine, the altinator is fine, but if I go about a day and a half of not driving it at all, the bettery will be dead. As long as I drive it everyday its fine.

So what kinda tests can I run to try and track down this voltage leak ? I have a multimeter and I actully installled alarms for a few years, but I've just never had to deal with a voltage leak, or tracing one down.

Thanx in advance for any help you guys can give.
-Bryan

 

I should meantion, that my "newest car" car is the 89' CRX Si, not the newest car in general..

 

iirc you need two people, one to watch the volt meter...put the volt meter on the battery and then pull fuses under the dash one by one until you see the drain stop...

 

im having same problem with same year crx and same trim.

 

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this is correct

 

Well, this problem turned out to be the main relay, but I guess its good to have something people can see when they search ( I couldn't find anything ).

When I bought the car the owner told me it had a voltage drain, but for the last 3 weeks it hasn't drained the battery ( and he removed all his ghetto'd *** stereo stuff ), so when my wife came in this moring and said, " baby the crx won't start" I assume the battery was dead...

Nope, just the good ole main relay... smacked it and the car started right up...